Disclaimer: I do not own the power rangers or any of the weapons and/or original characters from that series. This is the third story in the "Saving the World, Again" series, so any characters from those stories that are mine, might be brought in. I do own the character Ally Jameson as I know she will appear in this story a good bit and I just wanted to let you know that she is my character from the beginning. I also own the characters of Janice Mitchell, Principal McEntire, Mallory Wiggins, David Jackson, and Sharon.

SUMMERAN1: Thanks for the review, I really appreciate it.

Now, on with the Story!

Going Home

Kim's POV

I've been in this hospital for three days and I have almost lost my mind from having nothing to do here besides walk laps in the hall, which has become boring after about the hundredth time. Tanya does not really like for me to do that because she knows what type of activity I will be going back to once I go home and it will be more than enough to get me back in shape. The thing is, I need to start back now. I can't afford to wait like many of the other mother's that are here can, my job won't really allow it.

It was one thing when I was hurt or sick to have to sit still, but I feel fine, except for the fact that I am still very sore. The soreness is not as bad as I thought it would be, but I still just wish I could move around whenever I want. Tommy has been wonderful though, absolutely wonderful, as he has dealt with all of this so well and everything else that is going on around us. He kept the baby safe, by being his insistent self and now we are finally getting to go home with her, which is what I have been waiting for, for nine months.

"Mornin' Beautiful, I got something for you," Tommy said with a smile, as he walked into her room.

He had gone down to the gift shop to try to find something that Kim would like, as he could tell she was just not her normal self yet and he was hoping a little pick me up would help her get back to normal. He needed her to get back to normal, not that he could tell her that right now. He didn't want to seem selfish by telling her that he couldn't stand her not being her normal self, but she had an excuse that was better than any other excuse she could have. He was going to be patient and wait a little while and hopefully things would start falling into a normal routine.

They had brought in breakfast already by the time he got back, although it looked like Kim had just picked around it, to make it seem like she had eaten something. She was not too fond of the hospital food, at all. She was starving for some real food and could only hope that Tommy still remembered how to cook some things. If he did not remember, he was going to be heading back into Reefside to get her lunch. She had managed to eat some of the meals that they had fed her, but some of the others had just had no appeal to her in the least bit and this was one of them.

The doctors still had to check Angie before they would allow them to leave the hospital and go home, although that might not be as peaceful as their hospital stay. Nothing had happened to call the rangers out while they were here, but they were wondering how much longer it would be quiet. Mesogogg surely wouldn't leave them alone much longer and they knew what that meant for all of the rangers that were involved in this mess.

"You've done enough, Tommy. You don't need to do anything else for me. I'm happy just to have you here with me," Kim said with a smile as she looked up from her untouched breakfast to see him holding his hands behind his back, which did surprise her a little bit, but she had learned to go with the flow long ago.

"Sure," Tommy said, as he held out a black and white tiger for her and a black teddy bear for Angie. They had always just had this thing about sticking within their ranger colors, but this time it was more than normal and both of them picked up on it. They always seemed to get like this when things were rough and in the ranger world, it was rough right now. It might appear to everyone else that things were fine, but the two of them knew the truth of the matter and it scared them to know what they did. If things didn't start changing, Angie would have to go live with the Oliver's. They just couldn't keep putting her in the type of danger she was in right now. "Thought you could use one of these yourself, especially after Angie got all of those."

"Thank you, but I didn't get you anything. I feel bad now," Kim said bouncing up and down before she reached up to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

She had been so desperate to get out of this place that she had forgotten about the tradition of him getting stuffed animals for her when she was in the hospital. It didn't start under the best of circumstances when she had fallen off the balance beam, but she had gotten used to it, especially after all of the times that she had been in the hospital while they were together and even some of the times when they were apart. Jason had known when she had been injured in Miami and went into the hospital and to her surprise, a teddy bear showed up there before she left and it was from him.

They weren't even dating anymore, but he just did it as a friend and she still remembered it, even though they weren't on the best of terms then. She actually couldn't say what terms they where on then, but it didn't matter, it just showed her that he still cared and it was one of her most prized possessions. Anything she got from him, she valued just a little bit more than if it had come from another person, but that stuffed animal meant more to her than anything else.

That was the day that she had started to forgive herself, for everything she had done, but she couldn't fully forgive herself until she was about to talk to Tommy and that happened to be about four years later. She had wished, for years, he would come out there and talk to her, but that never seemed to be something that fit into his plan. So, when she finally got her next chance to make things right, she did without any sort of discretion as to how it would be best to go about it.

"Yeah, you did. You gave me her," Tommy said softly, with a smile lingering on his lips, before he went to pick Angie up out of her temporary crib while Kim sat and watched his every move. She hadn't really though of that as a gift, but it was obvious that Tommy did. To him, she had let him back in her life and given him the love that he thought he was never going to have from her again and Angie was just another thing that proved it was all real to him. That he hadn't just been living in a great dream for the past three years. "Aren't you glad Mommy finally let Daddy back into her life?"

"Tommy, have you lost your mind? You're horrible to say something like that to her. I don't want her to turn against me already. I'm sure that she'll do enough of that when she's a teenager," Kim said happily, as she was excited to go home and sleep in her own bed. She had not been able to sleep that well while she was in the hospital and she hoped going home would do the trick.

There had not been another attack since she had gone into labor, but they both knew it was only a short time before they'd have another one. Mesogogg was getting antsy and it seemed that the only reason that he had delayed it any was because of someone begging him to not attack them and for some reason he listened to what they had to say. Why he listened? They didn't know, but they were happy that he did, as Tommy had taken his communicator back from Jason yesterday, but he still had not been willing to go out and they all knew it.

"I'm not that bad and she'll always love you. You're her mother," Tommy said with a smile, as he heard a faint knock on the door. Kim and he were known for talking too loud, even when they were alone, but it just seemed that most of their friends tried to be nice, thinking that one of them might be resting, which was not likely to happen but they always knocked just in case. "Come in."

"Hey," Hayley said opening the door and peaking her head in. "Everybody ready to go home?"

"Yeah, we just have some last minute things to talk about with Tanya," Tommy said, standing up with Angie in his arms so that Hayley could take a seat. He, quite frankly, was getting tired of sitting down as much as he was and his body was complaining about it as much as it could to him. He knew that he needed to hit the dojo hard some day this week, but he doubted that he would find the time to do that. He was taking some time off to take care of his family and he just didn't know if he was going to make it in. Kim had already told him to take a day and get caught up on all of his work while he was out with them, but he just didn't want to leave them at home or bring them to the dojo either. He just wanted to spend some time alone with the two of them. "Every one have the full news now?"

"They do and they're ready. You know that we'll take care of her when the time comes, Tommy," Hayley said, as Tommy nodded his head, but begrudgingly thought about what that meant. In a week and four days Kim would be able to go back out with them, without Tanya having a cow, and to be honest about it, he didn't like it.

Tanya had told them that they would be safe morphing around Angie, as long as they didn't directly let their powers interact with Angie. They didn't want her to become addicted to the powers at such a young age just because the withdrawal would be horrible and they had no clue what it would do to an infant. It left them mentally unstable as well as weak and that was not something that they ever wanted her to have to deal with, especially without it being a choice of her own.

"We know," Kim said swinging her legs off the side of her bed. She had been walking around as much as she could which was surprised most of the doctors, but they had an agenda to meet that no one else knew about. She had to be ready to morph and fight in about two weeks, which was not a very long time to get herself back like she was before she was pregnant with Angie. She didn't expect to be back to normal, but she did want to try to get as close as she could. If Mesogogg picked up that she was exceptionally weak, then she would have to deal with the consequences and she knew that Tommy didn't need that extra stress added to him. She needed to be able to hold her own, even if that meant bull shitting how strong she was for a few weeks. "Can you pass me that robe?"

"Sure, what did the others say?" Hayley asked knowing that their friends were dealing with it rather well, except Rocky. Ally really didn't want him to go and was finally saying all of it, but it was too little too late at this point. He had to go and he had to do this, they needed him just as much as they needed any other ranger.

"As soon as my two weeks are up, they're taking a few days off so we can get our things together and so we can try to find some people to help us. But that might change, they all knew that they might have to come earlier or later, depending on what is going on. I know that they might not come at all, especially if we only need them at the end. Tommy and I are giving up what we have in exchange for what they are getting back," Kim said, as Tommy handed Angie to her without so much as a second thought about all of it.

"Good, so when do they let you out of here?" Hayley asked, knowing who else was waiting for them, although they were fairly clueless, thanks to the fact Tommy wouldn't leave the two most precious people in his life alone at the hospital. They did not blame him for doing that, but it was one thing that helped them pull off what they were planning for when they came home.

"About 10:30," Kim said spinning around while Hayley and Tommy stifled back laughs. Kim had been trying to dance ever since she had Angie, just because she had gotten so tired of being told to sit still by everyone that knew her. She had done that for nine months and now she was going to enjoy herself, no matter what the doctors or Tommy said to her. "I'll finally have some real food."

"Are you dissing my hospital food?" Tanya asked as she walked in, knowing that Kim would be up and probably walking around with Angie in her arms. She had been every day when she came in at that time and Tanya really didn't know how she did it. Tommy and she had barely gotten any sleep, but they both were about as awake as everyone else, blame it on the powers.

The majority of the medical staff had not been to happy with Tanya's decision to let the little Oliver stay with her parents, but Kim and Tommy could not help but be more than thankful for it, as the nursery did have an odd person come in, although no one had told them if they had ever found out who it was. Sharon had been more than willing to elaborate on it, but there was something that made them think that they were all holding something back from the two of them. It seemed to them that the person had been specific and they were just lucky that Angie had not been in there that night. They had known that Mesogogg might have tried something sneaky and they were right, although most of the hospital staff would not know the truth about the matter, not that they needed to know anything about it.

"Tanya, can you really blame me for that one? I'm used to his cooking now," Kim said, as Hayley and Tanya laughed at that.

They could not believe that Tommy knew how to boil water, much less cook anything that would be considered edible. It just didn't go with the whole strong, tough guy thing that he had, had going for him since they could remember seeing him.

"I wish my husband would cook for me," Tanya said sadly, as they looked over at her.

They had been getting the impression that her husband was not the nicest man in the world, but Tanya would never leave him, unless he really pushed her. Tommy and Rocky wished she would have come back sooner, they might have been able to keep this from happening, but they couldn't change what had already happened.

They're all, all right with her, even Ally, who was a little bit skeptical at first due to Rocky and Tanya's past relationship. It seemed that they had both been able to put it behind them, although it had take Rocky a little bit longer than most others.

"Well, she didn't say that it was good, Tanya. She just said that she had gotten used to him cooking," Hayley said, as Tommy glared over at her, before tossing a teddy bear at her head, which she was able to catch before it hit her.

"He can cook, I promise," Kim said, as Angie let out a gurgle at how silly they were being. They were fighting about Tommy's cooking skills and he was just being aggravated by it all. This was something he had never expected to have three women fighting about over him, but it was better than some of the things that had happened to him in the past. "See, she believes me."

"She doesn't know any better. All she knows is what you say," Hayley said as Tommy decided it would be best to keep his mouth shut about this situation. The girls were just joking or so he hoped.

"And it is no fair to bring little Angie in, we're suckers for her already," Tanya said, guiding Kim over to her bed, as she knew she needed to sit her down in order to check everything out. She had barely been able to get Kim to sit down for an hour total since she had started moving around, but luckily, Kim was fine, which seemed to be a miracle.

"Yes it is, she's been surviving off of his cooking for the past nine months," Kim said defensively, as Tommy threw up both of his hands out of frustration. If this kept up much longer, he would have to cook for all of them, just to prove Kim's point.

"Look, this is getting us no closer to getting you two home. So can we just skip the fight about how bad or good my cooking is," Tommy said, as they noticed some anxiousness in his voice. He had a lot of things he had to worry about and if he didn't get half of it done; then a lot of people would be in trouble.

"Too dangerous here for you, Tommy?" Tanya asked, noticing her old leader was carefully looking around the room and he seemed as jumpy as he was their first night there.

He had been like this so many times before when he had dated Kat, but with Kim, it was at least ten times worse and she understood why Kat and him would have never worked out long term. There just was not that added spark there and they all could see it between Kat and Adam, but it had been what was missing between Kat and Tommy. They just hadn't noticed it until they saw Kim and Tommy together. That was what really proved all of it to them, even if Tommy didn't want to admit it right away.

"Not right now. I'm just ready to sleep in my own bed. I won't worry as much once I'm home," Tommy said, as he had not really gotten any sleep while he was at the hospital. He had taken naps during the daytime, knowing that Kim would be awake the whole time and she could protect herself, if she absolutely had to do something like that, but at night he didn't trust anyone.

"Fine, Tommy, but I'll see you in two weeks, alright?" Tanya asked, signing the release papers so they would be able to get on their way without any problems.

Oliver Residence

"Guys, I'm not sure that they'll take to this too well. They probably just want to come home and sleep for the rest of the afternoon," Trini said, as they looked over at her and then continued with what they were doing. Kim and Tommy would probably be thrilled because they wouldn't have to fix themselves anything to eat. They knew that Kim had been craving some normal food and she was going to get it now.

"Trini, there's food here. I know Tommy will take it well, just because of the fact he doesn't have to cook anything," Jason said, as he saw Kim's car pull up. There was not much use in hiding, as they would see the decorations the second they walked in, but they did it just for the hell of it this time.

"Hayley, you're sure that everything is alright?" Tommy asked, as he wanted to go down through the command center, just to check things out, but Hayley was very insistent that they go in through the front door and not through any other entrance to their house.

"Yes, Mr. Worrier. She's already said it a hundred times, Tommy. Calm down, it's all fine," Kim said, as he picked the car seat up out of the back seat. She might have been feeling wonderful, but she still was not up to carrying much of anything. Not that Tommy planned to let her do that anytime soon from the way that he had been acting but she knew he would have to let her eventually. "Come on, let's go inside."

"Alright, but I still feel like something is up," Tommy said, as Kim looked up at him and just shook her head. He was going to feel like something was up until Mesogogg was defeated, no matter how many times they said that everything was all right.

"Surprise!" Their friends yelled, as they both stared at them, wondering when they had found time to do this. They had, had to go back to work today and they never really expected for them to do this at all. Kim and Tommy were just planning to go home, get lunch, and then sleep the rest of the day.

"I told you," Tommy said, as Kim looked up at him before noticing some other familiar faces in the group, faces that were not meant to be there.

Tommy noticed them as well and he prepared himself for one of two reactions, hoping that it would not be the one that she fainted in. He couldn't drop Angie and grab her at the same time, although he had already put the car seat on the floor out of previous experience in her being shocked and was heading to stand behind her, just in case.

"Mom? Dad?" Kim asked, looking from her friends and back to them before she ran to give both of them a hug at once. Tommy stood and watched his wife, glad that they had been able to come after all. None of them had known if they would be able to make it, but it was a wonderful surprise to see them there, even if he didn't know about it.

"Hey, sweetie. Your friends called us when you went into labor and we were able to get tickets out here," Mrs. Dumas said, as Kim cried on her shoulder from pure happiness. She had wanted to see her family so much lately and she knew Tommy had picked up on it, but no one else had said that they understood it. It seemed that her friends had been paying better attention than she thought they were over the last few months. "It's so good to see you. How are you doing?"

"Mama," Kim muttered as she continued to give her a hug. She had, had questions to ask her mother, but she had never had the chance, although Mrs. Oliver did help her as much as she could. She couldn't help but think about how lucky she had been to marry someone that had parents that cared that much, although her parents did help just as much. They just lived so much farther away than his parents did and it was harder to be able to see them and talk to them on a regular basis. "I can't believe it. I didn't think you would be able to do this."

"Baby, we were going to come see you, no matter what. We just were able to get away earlier than we thought," Mr. Hart said, as he gave Kim a hug and picked her up off the ground. He remembered the promise that he made to her at her wedding and he was not going to deal with disappointing her again. He was sure that Tommy would not be as nice this time if he did that and he was sure that his daughter would be just as mad and he might even receive her wrath this time. That was something that he did not want to deal with, ever. "Now, I want to see that grandbaby of mine."

"Alright," Tommy said, as he had taken Angie out of her car seat, trying not to wake her up. She had gone back to sleep on the ride out to their house and he was sure that she would be sleeping a good deal for the next few months. He was thankful for that much, as things were not going to be easy on them for the next few months anyway with the way Mesogogg was acting and they didn't need for her to be really fussy.

"She's a pretty little girl. Now, did you stick with Angie?" Mrs. Dumas asked, as Tommy nodded his head. He was certainly a proud father from what she could see and she had expected him to be that way. He had always been proud of Kim and anything that they did together and this was just to be expected from him.

"I'm going to go put her upstairs, so we won't wake her up. I'm sure that we'll get loud," Tommy said, looking over at Kim to make sure that she was fine with that. They knew that they were bound to be talking a lot more with their friends and they both knew that they did not want to deal with a fussy baby this early in the morning, especially after the lack of sleep that they had had lately.

"Let me, Tommy," Mrs. Dumas said, as she gently took Angie out of Tommy's arms and walked up the stairs to place her in her crib and turn on the baby monitor. She knew that she would not be spending as much time with her granddaughter as she wished, but she wanted to spend as much time as she could while it was still possible.

"Are the two of you doing alright?" Mr. Hart asked, as Kim went to sit down in the recliner without causing any commotion if she could manage it.

"We're fine, just tired. It's been a long weekend and my boss isn't too happy with me right now," Tommy said, as he had talked to Principal Randall over the phone yesterday and she had been rather pissed about him taking a week and a couple of days off, but he felt that he needed to do that. Kim had a lot to adjust to over the next few weeks and not all of it had to deal with Angie, so she was going to need the extra help.

"She'll get over it, Tommy. She can kiss my ass as far as I'm concerned," Kim said as she had heard what Randall said and she had honestly wanted Tommy to give her the telephone so that she could give the woman a piece of her mind. There was nothing that made her more mad than someone accusing Tommy of being lazy and that was what Randall had done. She didn't know the whole story and that gave her no right to accuse Tommy of something like that in Kim's mind. "I still don't understand why you wouldn't let me talk to her."

"I know you, that's why and you would have told her to kiss your ass," Tommy said, as many of the people in the room could only imagine what Kim would have had in store for Randall if she had been allowed to talk to her and it actually might have gotten Tommy fired, although he would have been thankful for that in some ways. "Now, is everything alright here?"

"Yeah, no one has come by," Jason said, as vaguely as he could. He had seen the rangers yesterday and he just told them to give Tommy and Kim a few days to themselves before they came to visit. He was sure that they were going to be sleeping a lot for the next few days and then work began for the two of them. "Do either of you want anything to eat?"

"I'm starved," Kim and Tommy said in unison, as Rocky and Aisha went to fix them two plates. They knew that they would have more than enough food for the two of them to survive on for the next few hours, as they all sat back and enjoyed some peace and quiet. They hadn't been able to have that over the last few days and being able to be with their friends and family allowed them to enjoy it even more.

AN: I hope that you enjoyed how they came home and just to let you know things are about to start changing in peaceful Reefside.