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Time period: two years after Dino Thunder

Hint: Why you should never leave your video diary where a blue ranger can hack it.

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Chapter four of A Ranger Family Christmas

Elsa watched as Olivia came tearing into the house with a bright red balloon tied to her wrist and a large stain on her pink shirt from a chocolate ice cream cone, "The ice cream truck was at the zoo." She announced happily.

Outings with Tommy and Kim had become a weekly tradition that the three look forward to each week. Both of their relationships with Olivia had blossomed, but their relationship with each other was still stagnant. Elsa and Anton were frustrated by this fact, they could see that Tommy and Kim had feelings for each other, but they were both scared to admit it.

Elsa frowned, she knew that Kim was a pink and served with Tommy. Not that knowing that she served with Tommy helped much, him serving on five different teams, but that was all she knew. Maybe if she learned more about their team she could help them get closer together. All she needed to do was ask someone who knows more about power rangers than she did. She needed to call her twenty-year-old son, Trent.

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"Hello." Trent's voice filtered through the phone, sounding a bit groggy as if he had just been woken up.

"Sorry, did I disturb you?" Elsa asked.

"No Mom, you're fine, I was up late last night studying, and was just taking a little nap between classes. Is everything okay? Is Dad okay? He hasn't recreated Mesogog has he? If so, I am ready to report to duty."

Elsa laughed at her grown up son, she knew that Tommy is always ready to jump into action, and now she knew that it was a trait all former power rangers had, "No Trent, your father is fine, no Mesogog. I was just wondering if you knew anything about Dr. Oliver's previous teams."

Trent was silent for a moment, "Ethan may or may not have hacked into Dr. O's video diaries while he was out of town the summer after we defeated Mesogog."

"Trent!" Elsa scowled.

"If Tommy didn't want us hacking into them, he should have hid them from Ethan. Blues can't turn a challenge down; Tommy should know that, Ethan's only the fourth blue Tommy served with."

"Okay, do you know anything about a pink ranger named Kimberly Hart?"

"A lot, she is Tommy's female counterpart, longest serving, and considered the best female ranger of all time."

"Which team did she serve on? What was her relationship like with the others, Dr. O. especially?"

"She's the original, didn't leave until near the end of ninjetti. She was a pink through and through, happy go lucky, the one the others went to when they were feeling down."

"And Dr. O?"

"Funny you should ask, their teammates called them the 'Ultimate Power Couple', they were inseparable. Tommy even bought a ring, they were that serious, but Kim dumped him out of the blue, and nobody heard from her since. Okay, unless you count that brief stint of her being evil right before graduation. She left the team when she was offered a chance to participate in the Olympics. That's all we were able to learn about her. That and the fact that her dates always got interrupted."

"So her injury isn't a ranger injury, if she left for the Olympics. Is there anything about her being in an accident, or anything that could have hurt her foot?"

There was nothing for a while but the sound of Trent typing on his computer. Then he announced, "I found something, apparently there are a lot of news articles on her, they date six to ten years back. I'll email you the link. I have to go or I'll be late. Tell Dad I said hi."

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The next day at school Elsa knew she had to talk to Tommy, she had checked the link Trent had sent her and had found the information both informative and disturbing, and felt that sharing the information with Tommy would help him a lot.

Tommy was grading papers when Elsa enter his room, she cleared her throat, "it seems weird to see you all alone, last year Conner, Ethan, and Kira were always here during lunch even though they didn't have you."

"And the year before that Trent was with them, granted that was when we were saving the world from forces of evil but still. I find it kind of distorting knowing that all the other rangers had left. Reminds me of when Billy left for Aquitar and I realized that I was the only one of the original six left."

Elsa sat down on a stool, "That must have been hard, but you had the others, didn't you?"

"Yes, I even had Kim the first time Billy left, that is. We talked for hours, and then she dumped me soon after he returned."

Elsa nodded, "Have you asked her why?"

Tommy sighed, "Yeah, multiple times, she always clams up and says something about having to live with her mistakes."

"Go to Miami Florida news website and go back to when Kim first went to Florida and work your way forward. I found it quite informative; it will answer a lot of your questions."

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Tommy ran his hand through his hair as he checked around the gym for any sign of Kim, who was supposed to be a chaperone for the Halloween dance with him. How hard can finding one teacher with a cane in a room full of teenagers be? Maybe if he knew what costume she was wearing it would be easier, at the moment to find her. He had already eliminated at least two dozen Princesses, and couldn't think of any other costume she would have worn.

"Looking for someone, Dr. Oliver?" a voice asked behind him.

Tommy turned around, shocked to find Kim behind him, dressed in an old frilly dress with large pink flowers on it, her hair done up in curlers, "Yeah, I was looking for you. What are you dressed up as?"

Kim smirked, "Seeing as I already shuffle around like one. I decided to come as an old lady." Kim looked at Tommy, who had forgotten to get a Halloween costume and had just thrown on his lab coat, "I see you're dressed as a mad scientist."

"I'm a paleontologist." Tommy insisted.

"You built robots that threatened to take over the world, you are a mad scientist." Kim pointed out. With that the two old friends started arguing over rather or not Tommy was a mad scientist or not.

"Get a room, you two, it's disgusting." A new voice spoke up, causing the two of them to spring about, a student, they couldn't really tell who it was due to the costume, was watching their every move.

Tommy could have killed that kid. After he interrupted their conversation, Kim disappeared again, and he didn't see her for the rest of the night. Not that it matters, they were taking Olivia trick or treating at the zoo tomorrow morning.

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The next day dawned bright and sunny, and Tommy was up at the crack of dawn, he had an important phone call to make before he picked Kim up.

"Hello." Jason's voice filtered through his phone.

"Jas, it's Tommy," Tommy began, "I need to know what you know about what happened to Kim in Florida, and why in the world you haven't told me about it before!"

Jason nervously laughed, "You know about that?"

"Yes, all you have to do is google her name and it pops up."

"She didn't want to break up with you," Jason stated, "They were threatening you, and she didn't want you having to worry about that and her and still having to deal with being a power ranger. She wanted to tell you when Divatox happened, but she never got a chance."

"What happened?"

"Somebody broke into our hotel room, trashed the place. It scared her. She left within the hour. I haven't really heard from her since."

"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Tommy demanded.

"Because I didn't learn about it until the break in and she wanted to be the one who told you. Honestly I think she just was afraid to tell you because you were with Kat."

Just then an alarm went off causing Tommy to swore, "I have to go, I'm late." He said hurriedly, hanging up the phone.

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Kim was waiting for him outside her apartment building when he went to pick her up. She never allowed him inside, ashamed on how worn everything was. As he helped her up into the jeep, he said, "Once we take Olivia back home the two of us need to talk."

"I told you like it or not you are a mad scientist."

Tommy snorted, "I wasn't talking about that. I think we need to talk about the letter."

Kim suddenly went ridged, "I told you; the past is in the past."

"The past is preventing us from moving onto the future. I know why you sent it; I just want to know why you won't tell me about it."

"I was selfish, I chose gymnastics over you. You wouldn't want me because I was being selfish."

Tommy muttered a few choice words under his breath, "If you had told me what was going on, I would have totally told you to choose Gymnastics over me. I could wait, the Olympics don't."

Soon the two of them were at the Zoo with Olivia, who was dressed as a ballerina. They took her around through the zoo as she trick-or-treated all the zookeepers and other businesses that were helping sponsor the Boo at the Zoo that year.

"Oh, look at that!" Olivia shouted, running off once more, dragging Tommy with her.

"Olivia!" Kim called out at their quickly disappearing backs, "I can't move as fast as you can!"

One of the workers that was dressed like the cowardly lion smiled at her, "I think it's great that you don't let your physical limitations prevent you from doing stuff with your daughter. My sister has a bad back and she doesn't do much with my nieces and nephews at all."

"That's nice except the fact that there is no way I can find them in this crowd."

…Tommy's POV…

I was dragged by Olivia to the stage where they did animal shows, however today the local dance school was performing. As she watched the dancers, I looked around for Kim, only to discover that she was nowhere to be found. I froze; I had had such a hard time keeping up with Olivia that Kim, with her bad leg, would have found it impossible to do so.

"Olivia," I said, "We need to go back. We left Kim somewhere."

Just then a man dressed up as Indiana Jones appeared, "I couldn't help but hear you talking. Have you lost someone?"

"Yes, my friend Kim is losted." Olivia stated, whimpering a little.

Tommy knelt down and gathered her up in his arms, realizing she was going to start crying soon if he didn't do something quick.

"Can you describe what she's wearing?" the man, who turned out to be in security, asked.

"She's wearing a pink shirt and walking with a giant candy cane that's brown."

The security guard frowned, "a brown candy cane?"

Tommy nodded, "would it help if you know that she's thirty years old and uses a cane?"

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Kim was sitting on a bench watching the monkeys when they found her. Tommy sat down next to her, "Sorry, I should have slowed her down. I forgot that you aren't able to move as fast as a five year old can."

Kim laughed, "It's okay, I was just slowing her down." She smiled at Olivia who was still in Tommy's arms, "What did you see that caused you to run off like that anyway?"

"They were dancing. I like dancing. I used to want to be a dancer, but then Mommy and Daddy didn't pick me up from dance one day. Instead they went to heaven. I haven't danced since."

Kim wrapped her arms around Olivia, "I used to do cartwheels and walk on balance beams, but now I can't because it hurts my foot too much."

"Come on," Tommy stated, "It's getting late, and we need to get you home." He informed Olivia.

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A/N: And there they go. What do you think, next chapter is Tommy and Kim having a heart to heart.