"You think that Tommy will be able to calm her down?" Andros asked as Kim looked back at him. She didn't want to talk about that right now and he knew it all too well. She, however, knew that Andros would not let this go, no matter what. "Kim, you know that his day is coming. I don't know how much longer we can hold it off."

"Don't tell me that, Andros. I want her to be able to have a normal life if she chooses," Kim said as Andros stepped back from her and took a very long look at her.

"So, you're saying that if she were to choose Tommy to live with instead of you, you'd be fine with it?" Andros asked as Kim looked away from him. They both knew how she felt about that and she didn't want to verbalize it, but he was asking her to do that. He was asking for her to make it real.

"No, but that's not the point. I want her to be able to go to a home without someone being stuck as a ranger," Kim said as Andros nodded, but he knew that there was much more to it. There had been times when it would have been easier on Kim to have Tommy right there beside her, but she, for some reason, had decided that she must stay away from him.

"Kimberly, you can't tell me that you think Tommy will make it through this next year without becoming one of us," Andros said as Kim sat down on her bed and he sat down across from her on his own. They had been sharing this room for years and all the other rangers knew there was nothing there. They had both had others that had stolen their heart, but for their sakes they were trying to keep them away. That wasn't working too well right now, but it was the only thing that they could find mutual ground on that they felt strongly about.

"You're right, I can't, but I can tell myself that I can protect him by keeping him out of the fight as long as possible. It's no fun to give up your life for this," Kim said as Andros laughed. "What's so funny?"

"Tommy has already done that, Kim. He will drop everything if there is some distant rumbling of trouble and what is going on right now is much more than a distant rumbling. He knows what is likely to happen and he's ready to be put up on that mantle again, even if it might be permanent. Kim, he's more of a ranger than either of us," Andros said as Kimberly let out a sigh. Tommy was an amazing ranger; there was no use in denying that. She, however, knew that he had grown tired of his job. It kept him from having a life, which was something that he had wanted since he was first brought into this world.

"Don't remind me," Kim muttered as she looked at the cold, steel wall. "I could have had a life with him."

"You still can. He hasn't shut you out and I don't think he ever will," Andros said, pointedly, as Kim kicked off her shoes and crawled under the covers. She didn't want to hear anymore of his psychological babble tonight. She had heard all of this from her friends and she just didn't want to make herself deal with the fact that she had pushed away the best thing that had ever happened to her.

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"Why do you and Mama have these things come after you?" Jenny asked as Tommy looked down. He knew that the reality was that they still saw him as a threat, but he didn't think that it was smart to say that to an eight year old.

"Because we're the only ones willing to fight," Tommy said as Jenny said down, thinking about that statement. Why didn't it seem like that was completely true?

"There is no one else?" Jenny asked, hopeful that he would say that there were a lot more of them that she never saw.

"Not anymore," Tommy said as Jenny just hung her head and he scooped her up in a tight hug. "It's going to be all right, sweetie."

"I know, but I want to see you and Mama together again," Jenny said as Tommy looked away from her. She really didn't like that they were apart and she had always dreamed of having a real family.

"You'll have to talk to your mama about that happening," Tommy said as Jenny let out a long yawn and Tommy gave her a weak smile. He knew that he needed to get her to sleep, but she was fighting for each minute that she could stay awake with him. "Come on, let's get you in bed."

"I don't want to go to sleep," Jenny yawned as Tommy held in a laugh. Tommy had seen Kim do that so many times before when she desperately wanted to stay awake, but would soon pass out against his shoulder.

"I know," Tommy said as he led her back to his guest room, which he assumed he would have to decorate as her own room very soon. He wanted her to at least feel like she had a home here, even if it was only for a couple of days a week.

"Daddy, why did you and Mama forget about each other?" Jenny asked as Tommy looked down at the ground. Kim was the one that needed to answer that question for Jenny. He didn't have any right to try to explain her reasons, at all.

"We never forgot about each other," Tommy said as Jenny climbed onto the bed and within seconds was dead to the world. Tommy then carefully tucked her in and turned out the light, knowing that he had a long night ahead of him.

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Andros walked around the space station in silence. He knew that every ranger had been looking into what was going on with the current situation for years. They had all been waiting for Tommy and Kim to at least meet and put some things to rest, but he felt that nothing had been put to rest yet. There were still a lot of injuries that had not been even touched on tonight. Neither of them had been willing to go there. The problem was there, that Tommy and Kim were going to have to come to terms with it quickly because of Jenny. That little girl was not going to let them get away with anything. He honestly loved that. He had been waiting for something like this to happen to them.

Sure there had been times when he wondered about his relationship with Kim, it seemed that every man that was around her had those thoughts. He had even asked Jason about it and Jason had admitted that he had thought it when they were teenagers. The problem was that Kim hardly showed interest in anyone but Tommy. Tommy didn't know the extent of everything that went on with them, but he was sure that Tommy knew deep downt that Kim was only interested in him. If he didn't he was certainly one of the stupidest rangers that he had ever met. It was obvious to everyone what Kim and Tommy had, it just was not obviuos to them anymore. They had lost their way.