A/N: Wow, first off look at those reviews, 100! Wow, and now let's count the votes, one for Oreo and one for Ninja, two more for Ninja, and another one for Ninja, therefore Ninja won by a landslide.
Zordon Says Eleven:
Kim took a deep breath as she entered the building, Tommy had Inya and Ellie and Jaslee were both at school. She hadn't told Tommy were she was going, she didn't know why, but she didn't want him to know.
A smiling secretary greeted her with a warm smile and asked her how she could help, "Yes I have an appointment to see Mrs. Fischer."
The secretary typed something on the computer, "The last name please."
"Hart, Kimberly Hart," Kim stated, feeling some peace at knowing that she no longer needed to use Luke's last name.
The secretary typed something on the computer, "She's ready to see you now, second door to the right."
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Kim nervously wrung her hands together as she entered the room and sat on the leather couch, she was starting to wonder if she was doing the right thing.
A kind middle-aged woman entered the room, "Hello, you must be Ms. Hart, I am Mrs. Fischer, what can I help you with?" she asked as she pulled up a chair and sat down.
Kim looked at her lap for a second before gathering up the courage to say something, "I've recently got divorced, and there's this guy who is showing interest in me. I like him, but I keep second guessing his motives. Part of me know that he's trying to help and stuff, but part of me thinks he's only doing it because he feels obligated."
"Why do you think he's feeling obligated to helping you?"
Kim shrugged, "He's friends with someone that I consider an older brother."
Mrs. Fischer wrote something down, "Any other reason why you think that?"
Kim bit her lip, maybe this wasn't such a good idea, she couldn't tell her that Tommy was her team leader, "Um, we used to date in high school, at least until I moved away. I think he blames himself for how bad my previous husband was, that he didn't try harder to keep our long distance relationship going."
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Tommy went upstairs to put Inya down for her morning nap, Kim had taken the day off work for some sort of doctor appointment that she wouldn't tell him about. He wondered if it had anything to do with how uncomfortable she had been at the date last week.
As he laid Inya in her crib in the master bedroom something black, white and furry jumped out from underneath the bed and clung to his leg.
Tommy sighed, this was now part of the routine, he gently picked up the kitten by its scruff, giving it a stern look before depositing it in his arms and scratching it between the ears, causing the kitten to purr happily, "And how are you today Ninja?" he asked nicely.
Ninja had earned his name at the veterinary office when Kim took him in to get his shots two days after Ellie's birthday. At that point and time, they were still debating about a name and was leaning toward Oreo, until he simply vanished like a ninja as soon as a dog came up and sniffed him.
It had taken Kim some coaxing to get the kitten out from behind the chair and when she was asked what the animal's name was, Kim simply named him Ninja.
Just then Kim arrived with Ellie and Jaslee in tow, "Thanks Tommy, why don't you go downstairs and start getting ready for your class, they should be arriving soon."
Tommy nodded and headed out closing the door behind him, "Mew," a voice said softly behind him, causing him to turn around to find Ninja sitting there, obviously, he had darted through the door before he shut it. Tommy groaned, they kept the front door locked at all times to help deter Luke from getting in, something he had insisted on.
He reached into his pocket for his key only to discover that they weren't there, which meant that he had left them somewhere in Kim's apartment. That was until he noticed what Ninja was playing with.
"Ninja, give me my keys," Tommy said reaching out to grab them only for Ninja to grab them and run off down the stairs, "Ninja get back here!" Tommy shouted as he chased after him.
Tommy soon found Ninja sitting in the middle of the gym with a look that just says, "you want these keys, come and get them."
Tommy dived at him only for Ninja to neatly avoid him causing Tommy to belly flop, right in front of some of his four-year-old students, "Today's lesson is getting those keys from that cat." He told them diving once more at the kitten.
The mother who was dropping them off kind of twitched her nose she was trying hard not to laugh, "Try ignoring it, then maybe it'll lose interest in the keys."
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After class Tommy decided that Ninja had a new job. Entertaining the kids while they waited to be picked up. Ninja had even lined up with the class and watched intensely as he showed them a new Kata if only some of his human students could do that.
"Stop it!" one of his students called out. Tommy groaned, Jack was up to no good again. Jack was a handful whose father hoped that the discipline he would learn through Karate would help with his behavior, his mother, however, didn't like karate and didn't like Tommy.
"Jack," Tommy called out only to find Ninja attacking the boy, that cat would probably become the first ever cat power ranger if he keeps this up.
"Ninja, only use Karate in self-defense, and even then only as a last resort." Tommy scolded the kitten, whose ears dropped as he sat down.
Just then Jack's mother showed up and growled at the cat who rubbed his head against her leg, "Mangy Cat," she said, kicking at the kitten, who jumped out of the way and landed on her leg, digging his claws into it. "Get this mangy cat off me!" she cried out.
Tommy however just folded his hands in front of him in the at ease position, "The problem is ma'am, you kicked at the kitten, why shouldn't the kitten defend itself?"
Tommy gently picked the young cat up by its scruff, making it let go instantly.
"Why do you even have a cat in here?" she huffed, glaring at Tommy, "You aren't fit to teach anything to anyone are you." she had an older boy that had failed Tommy's class last year because he had refused to accept late work and she had assumed that he just hadn't been teaching them correctly.
Tommy felt his eyes twitch and knew from the scrambling of kids rushing away from him that his eyes had just flashed green, the remains of an old spell, "This is my place of business, ma'am, and you can't tell me how to run it. If I want to bring a cat to work I can, how is that different from bringing your kids to work?"
"Maybe I should take my son elsewhere, somewhere where they take things seriously," she breathed, "That creature would probably scratch him."
Tommy shrugged, "Ninja wouldn't have scratched Jack if Jack hadn't pulled Ninja's tail."
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Tommy threw himself into a chair in Kim's living room, "I took Ninja to work with me and lost a student and gained three."
"How did you gain three?" Kim asked confused, sitting down and allowing Ninja to curl up on her lap.
"Apparently somebody didn't want their kids in the same class as Jack, so the moment his mother pulled him out they wanted to start."
Kim nodded, focusing more on the purring kitten on her lap than on what Tommy was saying.
Tommy looked up, Ask her what she did today, she wants to talk about it but she doesn't know how to start.
"So what did you do today?" Tommy asked, looking at Kim, she ducked her head, blushing softly.
"I decided to see a counselor, so far I just was doing family sessions with the girls, I knew I wanted help with them. I didn't want my marriage to Luke to keep the girls from being healthy normal girls."
"Do you think it helped?" Tommy asked, if Kim was willing to admit that she needed help and got it, that was good right. Maybe things were moving forward albeit a little slowly.
Kim nodded, "Yeah, it helped a bit. In fact, I feel like I might be able to handle Thanksgiving at your place as long as I can have someplace I can go if it gets to be too much."
Tommy smiled, "No problem, my room will be available and my parents live just across the street from the Scott's and Trini and Jason live about a block away."
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Tommy was smiling as he let himself into his house, today had been a good day, even if he had to deal with an on one kitten. He pulled out his phone and dialed his parents' number.
"Hi Tommy, sweety, how you doing?" his mom answered the phone.
Tommy groaned, "Good, nobody's stopped by there and asked for my address recently, have they?"
"No, not that I'll give it out to anyone, not with your ex-girlfriend's ex-husband on the loose. I find it admirable that you are helping her after she broke your heart. Just so long as you don't get your heart trampled by her again."
"Mom, I've invited her to Thanksgiving Dinner," Tommy announced.
"What! Why did you do that, surely she will be just fine having Thanksgiving alone with her little family."
Tommy runs a hand through his hair, "I still like her, Mom, and we're trying to see if we can get back what we lost. You have to understand, there's more to the break up that you won't be able to understand."
"Well, I want to hear what caused Kimberly to break your heart even if I don't understand it."
"Mom, I've forgiven her, you need to do, she blames herself enough without you blaming her as well."
"Then I guess I'll see you both next weekend."
"Yeah see you next weekend."
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Kim was running around crazy, a notebook with a list on it in her hand, "High chair, do we need a high chair?"
"If Mom and Dad don't have one, we can borrow one from the Scott's," Tommy said, already laden with a large suitcase and diaper bag.
"What about Inya's play saucer, it's pretty much the only way to keep her in one place for any period of time."
"I think I can tear it down small enough to fit without to much hassle," Tommy responded.
"Oh, and we need the portable crib," Kim stated, rushing into her bedroom to grab the play pin.
Tommy looked at Kim weird like, "You know, you are taking more to visit my parents for the weekend then you took to move from Florida."
Just then Ellie arrived, dragging the litter box with her, Kim stopped her, "Ninja isn't going with, sweetheart, Hayley is going to go take care of him."
Ellie glared at Kim, crossing her arms, she wanted to take Ninja with them. Kim grabbed Ellie's backpack and said, "You can fill this with whatever you want to take with you, just remember, you're responsible for your backpack and its contents."
Kim should have noticed the look on Ellie's face and got concern as she peered underneath the couch.
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A/N: Well what do you think of Ninja isn't he cute. What is Ellie up to? Please review.