Zordon Says Fifteen

Tommy looked around his living room, wrapping paper was everywhere. It was to the point that he was afraid that if he set the baby down she would get lost in the paper. Kim laughed as she gathered up the presents with smaller pieces before they could get lost in the debris, "Okay, Jaslee, Ellie, before any of your toys get out of their boxes, you need to help pick up the wrapping paper."

Tommy watched with a smile on his lips as the two girls started to gather up the wrapping presents, if you asked him Christmas had been a success. All three girls seemed happy with there presents, though he felt like they could have saved money and just got Inya a giant box instead of the little wagon that she had gotten from Santa.

He shook his head, Santa had spoiled the kids as much, or not more than he and Kim had.

Speaking of Kim, Tommy reached into the pocket of his robe that he barely had time to grab as Jaslee dragged him out of bed that morning, excited that Santa had came during the night, the present was still there. Now all he had to do was give it to her. He was kind of worried about how she would react to the ring, but he felt like they needed to keep moving forward, and this was the next big step.

After Thanksgiving neither one of them could deny the fact that they still were very much in love with each other and had started going on dates at least twice a week if not more often.

Nobody seemed to realize that he was not the father of Kim's girls. They discovered that the Monday after Thanksgiving, while they were shopping for ornaments and stuff. At the first store that they had stopped at, the woman at the check out counter told him that his daughters were cute. Though how a fussy eight month old and a screaming three year old and a four year old begging for candy could be considered cute was beyond him. Yes he loved them dearly, but that didn't mean he wanted them to behaving like this.

After they had bought the decorations they had returned to Kim's apartment, which was the smallest area to decorate. The hard part was rearranging the furniture so that they could set up the Christmas tree and decorate the room with tinsel and garland. After that had been done they had set up a large artificial tree up in the gym and decorated it, just to spread Christmas Cheer to the gym.

Then they went to his house and decorated it inside and out. Tommy had actually found it quite embarrassing as the only person to ever stop by his house around Christmas was Hayley who was quite use to the giant Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger with the Santa hat blow up. Kim found it hilarious, and asked if he thought it was Jason or Rocky.

Tommy had to admit that it was probably Rocky trying to get free cookies. That statement caused Jaslee and Ellie to want a snack, and nothing but cookies would suffice.

After a quick snack break, Tommy set up the artificial tree that he owned and the girls helped him put the ornaments on, though he would have preferred if they hadn't asked why he had so many pink ones.

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"Daddy whatcha doing," Jaslee asked, propping her head on her arms which where propped up on the arm of the chair he was sitting in.

Tommy shook his head to clear it, "Just thinking."

"What about?"

Tommy stood up and scooped the little girl up in his arms, "How much I love you and your sisters."

"Do you love Mommy as well?" the little girl asked.

"With all my heart," Tommy said, meaning it completely.

Just then Kim entered from the kitchen, where she had made herself useful in making breakfast for the young family, "Come on," She said, "Breakfast is ready and then you can get into your stockings."

Tommy and Kim had talked about family traditions a lot after Kim decided to have Christmas at his place with him. One the things that they had had a hard time figuring out was when to open the stockings. Growing up Christmas Breakfast had always been in the dining room, while the stockings had always been laid out on the Kitchen table. He wasn't allowed into his stocking until after he had eaten a good breakfast. Kim, however, had been allowed into her stocking before breakfast. Although she was the first to admit that she had a hard time eating Breakfast as a little girl because she would eat so much candy before hand.

After some talking and figuring out they decided to keep his tradition.

As he entered the kitchen, he paused, staring at a picture that he had hung up there only a few weeks ago. It was of him and Jaslee and Ellie at the Daddy Daughter Dance. It was at that dance he became even more determined to make the girls his own. He wanted to pummel the guy who told his daughter that he wasn't really her father. Just because he hadn't been her biological father did not mean he had any way to talk to her about that kind of thing like that.

"Daddy thinking about how much he loves us," Jaslee told her mother as she noticed that Tommy had spaced out again.

Kim smiled, looking at the same picture as Tommy was. She loved Tommy, a lot, the two of them had been going on dates as often as the two of them could. Kim even had a steady babysitter now.

The other day the two of them had gone to a fancy restaurant and had simply talked. She hadn't known when it had came up, but sometime during the date, marriage came up and Kim hadn't been scared away. In fact she looked forward to getting married and moving in with Tommy. She knew that her kids would love to have their own rooms.

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"Kim, Beautiful, are you okay?" Tommy asked, causing Kim to jump in surprise.

"Yeah, Handsome, I'm fine, just thinking. You see, I was just thinking about yesterday's date."

Tommy smiled, putting Inya in the high chair that he had bought for his house once they started coming over more often. He handed her a plate with scrambled eggs on it, which she immediately dumped onto her tray and threw the plate on the floor with a squeal of laughter.

"She no like plates," Ellie explained, handing him her plate, "I want some please."

Kimberly laughed as she helped dish up the food, Ellie had changed so much this year, she went from a toddler to a strong preschooler. She was glad she had decided to leave Florida and come here. Maybe she should call her former Coach and tell him how she was doing. She had been meaning to, but just hadn't had a chance yet.

After breakfast was over with Kim started cleaning up only for Tommy to steal the wash cloth from her, "Let's leave the clean up for later, I need to talk to you."

Kim looked at him in confusion as he lead her outside, "What's going on, Handsome. We're still in our pajamas."

"Well," Tommy said, "I would have gotten dressed if Jaslee hadn't dragged me out of bed this morning. I have one last present for you."

Kim arched an eyebrow, "What is it, why didn't you gave it to me earlier?"

Tommy kind of blushed as he pulled the black box out of his pocket, "Mainly because I need to asked you a question before I gave it to you."

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A/N: So I figured that it was about time for Tommy to propose. Please Review.