With countless hours of searching and scanning with Hayley, Tommy paced around the lab. Kimberly Oliver, his wife being held captive by Zeltrax. Hayley and Tommy had just found out that Dr. Mercer and Mesogog were now separated and had started a plan to stop Mesogog's plan, but with Kim's captured all their attentions went to getting Kimberly back.
Kimberly was coming back from grocery shopping. It was now April, April 15th, Friday. She had put the girls into the house and was about to bring the final bags inside, when Zeltrax appeared before you. Kimberly was trying to beat Tommy home from school, after she spent just a little longer at the mall than expected. Kim gasped at the sight of Zeltrax.
"What are you doing here?"
"What a beautiful home you have, Mrs. Oliver."
"What do you want!"
"You, and your son." Kim looked at her front door to see Trisha.
"Mommy!"
"Go back inside!" Zeltrax grabbed Kimberly. Tommy was pulling up to the driveway.
"Let her go!"
"Good day, Tommy!" They disappeared with Kimberly screaming.
"KIMBERLY!"
Kimberly gasped as she woke up. She looked around the cage. She was very happy she didn't forget to put on the bracelet that Tommy made especially for her to contact him in case of any trouble. Though Zeltrax had tried to break it, it still was sending off a signal, faint, but in time, she prayed Hayley would be able to locate it. Kim rubbed her belly, the baby was jerking in her stomach.
"It's going to be okay. Daddy is coming."
"Yes, he is." Zeltrax walked up to her cage. "Food?" Zeltrax tossed the tray at her. Kim turned her head. "Must keep you alive until your husband comes, then I'll kill you." Kimberly threw the food back at him. "Feisty, I love it. Time for your show."
Tommy had a flashback of a few mornings back waking, sitting besides his wife, as she woke up from another nightmare breathing hard.
Tommy just sat there, rubbing her back with his lips against her head.
"Tommy, I just have this weird feeling something seriously bad is coming."
"Why?"
"It's evil and it's coming."
"Don't say that," Tommy said rubbing her head. He held her tightly.
"I'm scared." Kim's head buried into his chest.
"I'll always protect you. I'll always be there to save you. You believe me, right?" She nodded.
"I love you."
"I love you too, Beautiful."
A signal came to the screen broke his flash. Hayley smiled.
"Found her!"
"Great how do we get to her!"
"That's complicated, Zeltrax has that area bugged."
"We need to get Kim back here now!"
"I'm trying Tommy," Hayley said.
"I know, sorry." Kim's scream as she was taken still rang in Tommy's head. She looked so helpless as she reached for him. A video came up. Tommy looked angrily at the screen.
"Well, well, it took you long enough, Tommy."
"Zeltrax. Give me back my wife, now."
"Yes, yes, I have your wife. My, my, what a beauty. Just like I remembered her." He turned, behind him, Kimberly was hung by her hands and feet. "And this baby," Zeltrax pressed his hands to her stomach. "You destroyed my son. I must destroy yours, don't you think that is fair?"
"Leave my wife and son alone, Zeltrax. This is between us, you and me, not them!"
"I have nothing now thanks to you! I have no life, I have nothing! You get everything! A wife, 4, 5 children while I am stuck like this! It ends! It all ends for you! I will have your wife's head and your son will never see daylight." The screen went to static. Kira gasped and covered her mouth. Trent put his arm around her. Tommy banged on the counter.
"Where are they!" Hayley brought up their position on screen at Tommy's demand. Tommy looked at it and knew the area.
"Dr. O, maybe you should..."
"Out of my way!" Tommy said to Connor as he pushed past him.
"Tommy, you should really rethink this before going..."
"If you value your life, Hayley, don't finish that sentence."
"It is a trap Tommy!"
"That is my wife and son!"
"And what your daughters upstairs!"
"We all know that this hard, Dr. O, but.." Kira stopped as Tommy looked at her with anger in his eyes. "But going in there without a plan, Kim or the baby could get hurt."
"Kira, that is my wife, that is my son! If Zeltrax hurts either of them, I'll tear him from limp to limp. Now get out of my way."
"We are helping you," Connor said. "We are a team, remember! This effects all of us. You need our help." Tommy nodded to them.
Tommy battled Zeltrax in a heated exchange. Tommy ended up destroying Zeltrax's cave fortress like he did the ship.
"Dr. O, we have to get out of here!" Tommy broke the chains holding Kimberly. Kimberly was helped down and hugged Tommy as he was demorphed due to the intensive battled against Zeltrax.
"I didn't think I would ever see you again!"
"Don't be silly. Of course, I would be here." They kissed. "Come on, let's go." Kimberly took his hand as they went to leave. Kim stopped and grabbed her stomach.
"What? What's wrong?"
"Ow! I...my water just broke."
"You gotta be kidding me." Zeltrax, fallen, shot at the couple. Tommy lifted her into his arms as he ran after the rangers. They made it out.
"Tommy, stop!"
"No, the minute we do, Nathaniel will be born." Kimberly was hurting from the contractions. She gripped Tommy hard, causing him to groan to each contraction. Tommy rushed her to the hospital.
"Kim push!" It was early Saturday morning, nearly 2 am.
"It's too soon!" She screamed back at the doctor. Doctor Walker had rushed to the hospital to delivery the baby. She was urging Kimberly to push.
"We can't stop that now, Kim. Please, come on, girl. Push!" Kim shook her head.
"NO! It's tooo soon!"
"He is just over the safety zone, Kimberly! Babies born now have a great chance of survival. Now come on, and push!"
"It's too soon!"
"Trust me, this baby has to come out now or he will die!" Tommy was holding Kimberly up, with his arm around her, holding her hand.
"Push, Kim!" She turned her head to his chest.
"It's too soon!"
"PUSH!" Kim screamed out as she pushed. Tommy kissed her forehead. Kim sat back crying.
"Okay, okay. Prep for an emergency Caesarean."
"What, wait a minute, what does that mean!"
"We need prep okay, this baby doesn't look like he wants come down now and he needs to come out now before he runs out of air."
"Tommy," Kim looked at him. She was breathing hard.
"Kim, one more round and I need you to give your all and push him out!" Kim nodded. "Now push!" Kim strained with all her might. Tommy pressed his lips to her head as she pushed. The baby came down. Doctor Walker rushed the baby to the table, not even giving Tommy the chance to cut the cords. Tommy saw his son, bloody, but very blue, and not as Trisha or any of his other children came out.
"What, what's going on?" Kim said weakly. Another doctor worked on cleaning her out. "He's not crying, Tommy. Why isn't he crying!"
"Doctor Walker..."
"Step back, Tommy." She was rubbing the baby up and down. "He's not breathing properly. He needs the NICU now."
"I want my son! I want to see my son!"
"Mrs. Oliver, calm down." Doctor Walker wrapped the baby. She brought him over for a second.
"Why isn't he crying!" Kim said as she tried to touch him.
"I have to get him to NICU now, he needs air."
"Will he okay!"
"The sooner I get him into NICU the better I'll feel."
"Please save my son!"
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Tommy rolled Kimberly down to the NICU section. Two nurses welcomed them into the room.
"Mrs. Oliver, he is a strong one," Doctor Walker said as she finished up the medication she gave the baby. The baby was placed in the incubator where he was kept warm, a few lines running in him, especially in his nose to allow him to breath right.
"How is he?"
"I just gave him a little theophylline to help with his breathing."
"Why are there so many lines?"
"He need help, Mrs. Oliver, with his breathing. This ventilator will ease that. He's a cute little one," Doctor Walker said rubbing the baby's back. "Only 1200 grams, so we have to work on getting his weight up."
"How big is that?" Tommy said as a nurse dressed him after she did Kimberly.
"About 4 pounds."
"He'll be fine in a few days right?" Kimberly said as she stood up and stuck her hands into the barrier.
"Yes. He will be needing some shots, especially antibiotics, and right now, we'll give him some IVs through his umbilical cord. But hopefully in a few days, we are going to need some breast milk from you to feed him." Tommy patted Kim's back as his other hand was inside touching his tiny son. "What are you two going to name him?"
"Nathaniel, Nathaniel Thomas Oliver." The nurse smiled at Tommy and wrote down her clipboard.
"What a wonderful name." Tommy kissed the side of Kim's head.
"He's going to be okay," Tommy said against Kim's head. Both of her hands rubbing up and down his body.
"He's soo tiny, Tommy." She looked up at him. "So tiny. I just want to hold him."
"We will, Beautiful. We will soon."
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Kimberly was breast feeding the baby when the grandparents arrived with the girls a few days later. They had came the day he was born, but with all the tubes running in and out, Kimberly and Tommy thought it would be best to give a couple more days before the children should see him again. The rangers and Hayley came with them as well.
"Oh, he's tiny!" Trisha yelled through the glass.
"Yes, he is." Tommy was sitting beside Kimberly, touching Nathaniel's face as he feed. He smiled and waved to them.
"Why, is he tiny, Papa?"
"He was a little early, princess."
"Why that bad?"
"Because, babies needs to stay in Mommies for a little longer than he did."
"How long?"
"Like 9 months."
"That is a lot."
"I know." Tommy's father put her down and motioned for Tommy to come out.
"How is he?"
"Doctors are happy to see him eating so soon."
"That's great," Hayley said.
"Yea."
"So, when do they think you can take him home?"
"In about another week or so."
"That's great, Dr. O."
"Yea. He's going to be okay."
Nathaniel was kept in the incubator for about another week. Kimberly carried him inside the house. It was Sunday, April 24th. Kimberly laid the baby to the crib with Tommy standing beside her. He put his arm around her shoulders.
"He's home. Our son is home."
"I love you." Kim looked up and wrapped her arms around Tommy's waist.
"I love you too." They kissed.
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Tommy came from his shower to find his wife and son, lying in bed. It was Tuesday morning. Tommy smiled. Kimberly in that zone between awake and sleeping, laid on her side, facing her son. Waking up to his son and wife was a magical feeling for Tommy. Kimberly hated traveling back and forth from the nursery to get the baby since he was brought home, but seriously she didn't want to leave him alone. Being premature, she always made sure his breathing was in order. It scared her when his breath would sometimes catch, but Tommy knew his son was strong and would be okay. Little Nathaniel would grasp his mother's finger as he slept on his side. Tommy wiped down his head and bent down to kiss both of them. Kimberly woke up as his lips touched her cheek. She moaned and sat up.
"I'll make breakfast."
"No, you just stay. I'll be fine."
"Trisha and.."
"Go, rest." Kim nodded and laid back down. Tommy went and woke up Trisha. He got her ready. Tommy checked on the other girls before carrying a sleepy Trisha downstairs to feed her. Sydney woke up and went straight for the bedroom.
"Mommy." Kimberly woke up to see her little head barely over the bed.
"Morning, baby."
"Mommy." Kimberly reached over and helped her into the bed. Sydney went to placed her face close to the baby, but Kimberly held her back.
"No, sweetie, not too close, ok. See baby Nathaniel?" Sydney smiled and nodded, as she pointed to the baby. Tommy came upstairs to find the twins still sleeping, but a missing Sydney.
"Syd!" Tommy rushed to find her. Tommy smiled as he stopped at his doorway to the bedroom to find all 3 of them sleeping. He went inside and kissed all 3 of them. "Love you."
"I love you too," Kimberly said. Tommy touched Nathaniel's cheek. The baby smiled in his sleep. Tommy kissed him again.
"He's soo beautiful, Kim."
"Of course he is. He's your son. Your son, Tommy."
"My son." They kissed on the lips.
"Have a good day at work."
"Thanks." Tommy kissed the side of her head and let her go back to sleep. Tommy went to say goodbye to the twins. Trisha was about to open the door to go outside, with her pink bookbag, purple lunch box and doll, as Tommy stood at the top of the stairs. Tommy smiled. Tommy put the gate across the steps as he went downstairs. Tommy stopped at the door and looked back.
"You coming, Daddy?"
"Of course princess." Tommy touched the top of her head. Trisha held her hand up for him to take it. Tommy took her hand and closed the door behind him, he was a truly blessed man.
Just 2 more chapters onto an amazing finale!