"Morning," Tommy whispered as Kim rolled over to face him, with her eyes sleepily opening. She had not slept this good in a very long time. "How are you?"
"I'm okay, do you have to be anywhere today?" Kim asked as Tommy shook his head no, thankful that it was the weekend and he had a couple of days off of work. He didn't know what he would do if he had to pull himself out of bed and away from her right now. "That's good, because I need to give you a tour this place and your new uniform."
"The last uniform I'll ever wear," Tommy muttered as Kim barely nodded her head that that was the truth. He would never change colors again; he would never suddenly be told that he was now the fluorescent orange ranger. He was the white ranger and he would stay that way until his dying day.
"Who did Jenny stay with last night?" Kim asked as Tommy shrugged his shoulders. He was not exactly sure, although he was positive that Andros had told them who it was the night before, although the two of them had been concentrating on other things.
"Don't worry, we'll go get her in a little while," Tommy said as Kim merely managed to nod. She never liked when she had to leave Jenny somewhere, but they had gotten a little bit carried away last night and it had been in all of their best interests for her to just stay with their friends.
"Yeah," Kim said as Tommy looked over at her.
"Are you sure that you want to be going this fast?" Tommy asked as Kimberly looked over at him. She didn't really have a choice about it now, she had made her choice last night and she just had to live with it and so did Tommy.
"I think it's a little bit late to ask that Tommy," Kim said as Tommy smiled over at her and then gave her a kiss on the cheek, which she gladly accepted from him.
"I was just making sure," Tommy said as Kim gave him a grateful smile as they walked in to see Andros curled up on the floor. Kim had completely forgotten about the fact that that was his room as well as her own.
"Andros, wake up," Kim said as she squatted down next to him and gently shook his shoulder and he quietly looked up at her. "Good morning, sunshine."
"Don't you dare call me sunshine," Andros muttered as he pushed himself to his feet and looked over at the two of them. "You know we are going to have to make some better sleeping arrangements after last night."
"I know, but we'll work on that while he goes to work," Kim said as Tommy looked down at her. He did not see how he was going to continue to work now that he was a permanent ranger. He was sure that it was going to be much more difficult than anything he had ever done before. "You have to keep it up for a little while, until we can inform the government that there is another permanent ranger and they can set up what looks like a job for you."
"Okay," Tommy said as Andros and Kim began working on various things and he just looked between the two of them.
"The government does give you what amounts to be a joke of a paycheck, so you may want to find something else that you can do as well," Andros said as Tommy nodded and then went to sit down. He was not sure what to think right now, other than that they had never been in this exact situation before.
"You'll be fine, Tommy," Kim said as she sat down next to him and he nodded. "Andros, I'm going to go get Jenny, so why don't you fill him in some more?"
"Okay," Andros managed to say as Kim got up and the suddenly disappeared. "I know you don't want to hear this from me, but we really don't have much of a choice about it."
"So what are my responsibilities?" Tommy asked as Andros looked over at him.
"Kim will decide that more than I will, I have a feeling she's not going to want you to do too much, but that won't last long. You are the one man that she wants to have do all of this and not do all of this," Andros said as Tommy just looked at him. "You're a ranger, she knows what you can do, just as well as I do, but we have to figure out the best way to use you, considering everything else that has happened."
"Is there a way to undo being a permanent ranger?" Tommy asked and Andros nodded his head that there was indeed a way, but it was something that they didn't often talk about. Neither of them wanted to get their hopes up about something that would not come true. They had already been told that they couldn't go and do the mission that would be needed. There was more of a need for them here than anywhere else. "What is it?"
"It's a mission to a planet that we haven't even been allowed to hear the name of to get an unlimited amount of powers for the earth to use so that there would not be a need for us to be rangers any longer. The government discovered this planet months ago, but they won't reveal it to us, unless we prove that we have enough protection on earth and that they will be able to sustain themselves while we go and get the powers that are needed. We haven't been able to do that with the last couple of teams and I doubt that Kim will even try it with this one," Andros said as they heard something plop down in the neighboring room.
"Wouldn't it be worth trying?" Tommy asked looking back at the door, figuring that he had a few more minutes before Kim would walk in and break up this conversation.
"It's not worth getting her hopes up again for it and then having them dashed again," Andros said as Jenny ran into the room and attacked Andros as Kim came trailing in after her. She had just given up on the idea of convincing Jenny to get some more rest. Once the child was awake, she was wired. "Hey…you act like you've missed me."
"You were supposed to come tell me if Mama and Daddy were getting along!" Jenny said adamantly, as Andros clamped his mouth shut for a moment, to prevent himself from saying what was on his mind.
"They are fine, Jenny and you were probably asleep by that time anyway," Andros said as Jenny just looked at him, as Kim and Tommy let out a sigh of relief. They were glad that Andros had not said how well they were getting along, because Jenny was very likely to repeat that to people that didn't need to hear about it. "What do you want to do today?"
"Stay with Mama and Daddy," Jenny said as Andros looked over at the two of them, thinking that they certainly wanted some more time alone, but he doubted if the little girl would allow that to happen.
"Andros, take a day to yourself," Kim said as Andros nodded and then was gone in a shimmer as Jenny ran over to her parent and gave them both happy hugs. She was so thankful that they were together again, but she didn't know what was ahead. None of them really did.
