Hey guys! Sorry for taking so long! I'm in my last couple of weeks of school before summer break and their just poring the work on. But I'm back and here is the next chap.

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em, wish I did.

"Tommy?"

"Kim?"

'Alright Tom, you delusions are getting a little too out of hand. Kim is not standing in front of you...alright now that the denial stage is over, what do I do?'

Tommy gives her a good look over. 'Man what I wouldn't give for her to be my gym teacher...' Tommy gives himself a mental shake. 'Now you cut that out Oliver! This is not the time to be thinking like that!' He looks Kim square in the eye, and that's when he saw something in her eyes that he hadn't noticed before, fear. She's afraid of me?...why? He then heard another voice in his head, 'Why? I'll tell you why, that damn letter is why she's afraid of you! And she better be afraid.'

'I don't want her to be afraid of me. I swore to myself along time ago that I would not be the cause for that look to be in her eyes, again.' said the first voice.

'Bro, you have got to be kidding me. Don't tell me you're gonna give her another chance?'

Tommy ignored the other voice in his head and gave Kim a reassuring smile and he saw her hesitate before smiling back.

"You two know each other?" Asks Cassidy looking back a forth between the two. Kim nods.

"Yeah, we uh..."

"...We were friends back in high school." Tommy finishes for her noticing the deer in headlights expression that crossed her face when Cassidy asked that question.

"Hey uh ...it's... been awhile..." says Tommy getting tired of the awkward silence that filled the room. 'Don't do it Tom.'

"Y-yes it has...how are you?" 'Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. What am I going to do?...Well Kim it was bound to happen sooner or later...But why now?' Kim was snapped out her thoughts by Tommy's response. "I'm doing pretty good...slight headache...but other than that I'm pretty good." said Tommy holding the back of his head and chuckled a little. 'You're setting yourself up again.'

"Yeah the kids told me what happen..." Kim folds her arms across her chest, clearly uncomfortable with the situation. Tom nods and looks around at all of the teenagers standing around them. "And speaking of kids," he clears his throat, "Didn't Ms. Hart give you guys something to do?" Most of the kids muttered a quick "yeah" and walked off trying to do something besides be near Dr. O, but a small amount that included his four rangers, stayed. Tom sighed as Kim laughed a little. Tommy gave them a look and they quickly went back to the bleachers.

Tommy looks around him one more time. Making sure that they had some sort of privacy, before he turned back to Kim. And as he does this he get another sharp pain in his head and winces a little.

Kim sees this and automatically moves closer to him and lays a hand on his shoulder. "Tommy you should go and see a doctor...wait a minute. I thought that your sister was here to take you?"

At the confused look on Kim's face as she said 'sister' Tommy explains. "It's my friend Haley. She's as bossy as Jase and as smart as Billy. Scary combo." Kim chuckles a little. 'Girlfriend maybe?...It's not my place to ask'. Kim looks over Tom's shoulder to the gym doors and see's a woman with red hair standing there holding a suitcase. "Its that her?" Kim asks, her head motioning towards the door. Tom turns around to see Haley standing there with an unreadable expression on her face.

"Yeah. She's waiting to take me to the hospital so I better get going." Tommy looks back at her and she nods with a small smile on her face. "Alright."

"It was nice seeing you Kim." Tommy says as he shoves his hands into his pockets.

"You too Tom."

Tommy turns around and starts heading for the gyms doors. Kim watches him for a second before turning to join her students.

'Don't do it Tom. I know what you're thinking.'

'All you have to do is turn around Tommy. Turn around and give her another chance.'

'Don't do it man. I'm warning you.'

'Everyone screws up Tommy. She did and so did you. She gave you the chance you needed. Give her the chance she needs.'

'Do you WANT to get hurt again! Cause if you give her the chance, that's what's gonna happen. Do you really wanna take that risk?'

Tom stops and turns around and looks at Kim's retreating form. '...Yeah I do. It's time to make things right again.'

"Hey Kim!" Tommy calls out to her and she turns around and with a puzzled look on her face walk back towards him and he meets her half way.

Once they were standing in front of each other, Tommy takes a deep breath.

"Look Kim, it's been a long time...and during that time we've changed...We're different people than what we were in high school...So I thinks it's time we re-introduce ourselves...to start over..."

Kim looks at him wide eyed. 'No way...Is he really giving me another chance?' She watches as he outstretches his hand. "So what do you say? Can we start over?" Kim looks at his hand and then back up at him. Trying to figure out if he was for real. "I don't know Tom, I mean...it's been years and-" "And we need to talk, I know...but for now can we just...you know forget the past and start over. I mean, Kim I know that things may never be the way they were in high school, and I accept that." 'No you don't.' Tom quickly silences the voice in his head and continues. "But Kim back then you were more than my girlfriend, you were my best friend. I mean, I told you things that I never even told Jason." Kim looks at him, her eyes welling up. 'I can't believe he's doing this, after what I did to him.' "Kim over the years, I've missed that. I missed talking to you, hanging around you. I missed my friend...I just wanna know if I can have her back." Kim looks into his eyes and nods and then hesitantly reaches out and puts her hand in his as he shakes it and smiles.

"Man I wanna hug you right now." Kim raised and eyebrow and asks, "What's stopping you?" He looks past her and she follows his gaze to her students. She turn back to him with a smirk and shakes her head and mutters, "Oh brother" before throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him. Tom is taken by surprise at first, but quickly returns the hug. After a few moment they release each other and Tommy smiles at her before looking over her shoulder at their students and noting that most of them were looking at them smiling while others were talking amongst themselves glancing in their direction, Cassidy was whispering angrily at Devin as he was fumbling with his camera, and his rangers standing there with sly smiles on their faces. Kim looks in her students and gives them a small glare and the quickly go back to what they were doing and one student exclaims, "Man do all teachers know that look?" Kim laughs and looks at Tommy, who just smiles and shakes his head. "Alright lets do this." Kim raises an eyebrow at him as he again holds out his hand.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Tomas Oliver."

Kim smiles, takes his hand, and replies, "Kimberly Hart. I've heard a lot about you. It's nice to finally meet the man that Principal Randall is always talking about."

"Ugh. You had to mention her didn't you?" Kim laughs and lets go of his hand.

"I can't help it. Every time I do something that she thinks is wrong, she brings you up. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that she had a small crush on you."

Tommy rolled his eyes. "Why does everyone say that?" Again Kim laughs. "Well Tommy you always did attract the oddest people." Kim quickly realizing what she just said, looks up to see Tommy with a smirk on his face about to respond. "Not a word." she says just as he opened his mouth.

Tommy laughs and Kim puts her hand over her face and shakes her head. 'I can't believe I just set myself up like that.' She looks up and see Tommy calming down and says, "Most of the time you did. I was the one exception." Tommy looks at her, his voice filled with nostalgia. "Yeah Kim. You were the one exception." Kim looks up at him and he quickly schools his features. Kim just gives him a small smile. Tom starts to smile back when he gets another stab of pain in his head and he hears her screams from his dream. He grabs his head with one of his hands and closes his eyes. Kim goes over to stable him as he starts to loose his balance.

"Come on Tommy, its time for you to go." She helps him walk over to Haley and once they get to her Haley trades places with Kim. Tommy chuckles and looks to Kim. "Thanks." "Not a prob." Kim looks at Haley and holds out her hand. "Hi, I'm Kimberly Hart. I know Tommy from high school." Haley shakes Kim's hand and replies with a small smile on her face, "Haley Johnson, a friend of Tom's from grad school." Kim smiles back and looks back at Tommy. "Alright fly-boy, its time for you to be off." Tommy reluctantly nods his head. "I know, I know." As Haley begins leading Tommy out of the gym doors Kim says, "I'll talk to you later." Tommy turns an smiles. "Alright. Ask Kira for my cell number." Kim grins, "Already got it." Tommy gives her a look and she just shrugs, but suddenly she gives him an odd look as she goes over what he just said. "Wait why would Kira have your number?" Tommy looks to Haley and then back at Kim. "It's a long story. I'll tell you later." Kim just raises her eyebrow and nod as Tom and Haley leave the gym.

She walks back to her class with a grin on her face. 'A fresh start. I am not going to screw this up.'

End Flashback

Tommy smile to himself as he lifts his head to watch his last class for the day file out of the classroom. He then went about his usual routine of erasing the board before he left. He hears the familiar chiming of his cell phone and digs in his pocket for it. Finding it, he flips it open and answers it.

"Hey Tom...are you doing anything later?"

Tommy smiles. 'Maybe this day wasn't so bad after all.'