"Hello!" Rocky yelled as he pushed the front door open and he heard Kim and Aisha laughing in the living room and could not help but wonder where Tommy was. He honestly doubted that Tommy would leave Kim alone at all for the next few days.
"Hey," Kim said looking back from the couch and smiled.
"How are you?" Rocky asked as Kim just looked at him.
"I'm fine, I haven't felt anything since I left," Kim said as Tommy peaked in and just shook his head. One look at Tommy let Rocky know that he had had a rough afternoon, there had been a battle in town in this afternoon and the black ranger had appeared. Knowing Tommy it was only as a last option that he went in, but the bruise that he could see on his left shoulder was already a deep purple.
"You okay?" Rocky asked as Tommy just shook his head and went back into the kitchen.
"You want to help with supper?" Tommy asked as Rocky just looked at him. He was a decent cook, but he knew that Tommy was going to burn something if he was allowed to work on this on his own.
"I guess if I don't want the house to burn down I will," Rocky said as he followed Tommy.
"Kim doesn't know that I went out this afternoon," Tommy said as Rocky stared over at him. How had he managed to get that past Kimberly? "I got Aisha to just cover for me, there is no need for her to worry about him right now."
"You have got to be kidding me," Rocky said as Tommy shook his head that he wasn't. "Kim won't know when she sees the giant bruise?"
"I have a bruise?" Tommy asked as Rocky nodded his head yes and Tommy let out a groan. His shoulder had felt sore, but he had been sure that it was nothing more than just a normal battle wound. "She's going to kill me."
"Yeah, but she'll only worry about you now, not the entire time that you were in battle," Rocky said as Tommy nodded his head that that was the truth. That was the main reason that he had done that in the first place, but he didn't have to explain that to Rocky. "But you're going to have to tell her, because I honestly doubt that you sleep in anything more than boxers and maybe an undershirt, but that doesn't cover it."
"That's fine, I'll deal with it when she sees it," Tommy said as Rocky just shook his head and silently began pulling food out of the fridge. "I was thinking something simple."
"And I'm thinking something that might actually fill the two of them up without them coming back for tons of extras," Rocky said as Tommy just shook his head. "Go spend time with your wife, I'm fine by myself."
"You sure?" Tommy asked as Rocky nodded his head yes.
"You can trust me not to burn the house down, I promise," Rocky said setting to work and Tommy looked over at his shoulder and then pulled on a t-shirt as Rocky stifled a laugh.
"I didn't say that I wanted to die right now," Tommy muttered as Rocky laughed. Their wives could be spitfires when it came down to it and neither of them wanted to deal with that right now if they could help it.
"Where did that come from?" Kim asked as Tommy stripped off his t-shirt and he winced, not from her voice but from the pain that had settled in his shoulder. "Tommy…"
"I went out today," Tommy said as Kim just looked over at him, she had not even known that there had been an attack, much less that he had been in it. "I didn't want to worry you, you've got enough on you already."
"You should have told me," Kim said as Tommy just smiled over at her and then crawled into bed. "Tommy…"
"It's just that keeping you safe instinct," Tommy said as he wrapped his arms around her and she gladly rested against him, utterly exhausted. He knew that the pain he felt was nothing compared to some of the injuries that he had endured in the past and that it would clear up soon enough, with the right care and a few battle free days.
"We need to let our parents know what's going on," Kim mentioned as she yawned and Tommy barely nodded. He agreed, but he was not sure if he wanted to do that tomorrow. He was hoping to get a few days of rest before they tackled that obstacle, as he was sure that his mother was going to want to move in and watch after Kim, not that he would complain, but he knew that she still needed to feel somewhat independent. It was part of her and there was nothing that he could do to change that.
"We'll think about that in the morning," Tommy whispered as he closed his eyes and she soon felt him drift off to sleep next to her. She knew how much battles could take out of him and obviously the one that he had been in today had been rough, to say the least.
"Kim?" Tommy murmured as he woke up to find her side of the bed empty and quickly drug himself out of bed to find her. They had slept downstairs last night after he and Rocky had moved their bed, but he still didn't want her overexerting herself. He was afraid of what would happen if she did that.
"On the porch," Kim said as she saw Tommy walking through the house and he quietly walked out behind her.
"You look better today," Tommy said as he reached around her and pulled her closer to him.
"I'm not in a hospital bed hooked up to all kinds of medication," Kim said as Tommy smiled at her. "You okay?"
"Yeah, just thinking about the baby and what things will be like in a couple of months," Tommy said as Kim watched his facial expressions and saw the happiness appear and the stress be wiped away.
"You mean the sleepless nights?" Kim asked as Tommy laughed. He was not looking forward to that, but he wanted to have a child, he wanted to be able to be with her for the rest of his life. They had not even begun to plan a wedding or set a date or doing anything that would make the outside world think that they were ultimately heading in that direction. It was good that his friends were going to be there for him, but this was scary. It was a land of the unknown and it was a place that he had never been before. He just hoped that the two of them would be able to make it, after all they still had a ranger team as well, that almost scared him even more.