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Kim looked at him in confusion as he lead her outside, "What's going on Handsome, we're still in our pajamas?"
"We'll," 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 it's out, Why didn't you have it to me earlier?"
Tommy kind of blushed as he pulled the back box out of his pocket, "Mainly because I need to ask you a question before I give it to you."
Kim watched as Tommy got down on one knee and opened the box, "Kimberly Anne Hart, well you do me the honor and make me the happiest man in the world and allowing me to become your husband's and father to your children."
Inside the house, Jaslee answered the phone, "Hi Uncle Jason, Daddy taught me how to read the caller ID, I'm only allowed to answer if I know what it says. It said Jason Scott on it."
Jason laughed, Jaslee sure was a bright little girl, "Where's your daddy?"
Jaslee frowned looking out through the screen door to where her daddy was kneeling in front of her mommy, "He's helping Mommy tie her shoes."
"Can I talk to him please."
Jaslee hurriedly opened the front door and handed the phone to her dad, "Uncle Jason wants to talk."
Kim, who had burst into tears at the proposal and had yet to gain composer enough to answer him, hurriedly wiped the tears from her eyes. Tommy grabbed the phone and growled, "Way to go, now I have to start all over."
"What you're doing isn't hard, Zoey's figuring it out."
"Whoa whoa whoa, she's only two and a half, she is way to young for that."
"I agree that she's a little bit young, but she wants to learn."
"Okay remind me to see how Trini feels about this," Tommy stated, "Now why did you interrupt me?"
"You know that big storm that raged through last night?"
Tommy nodded, it was one of the reasons that Kim's family was at his house, the storm had knocked out the power and he had a backup generator, "Yeah what about it."
"It knocked out the power here, and the back up generator for the prison, well, we think that it might have been tampered with."
Tommy ran a hand through his hair in frustration, "Cut to the chase Jason."
Jason sounded reluctant, "I don't understand what or how, but there was a major breech in security in the prison here, the automatic locks failed, at least ten convicts are at large, including..."
"Luke," Tommy growled.
"Precisely, that's why the power rangers are being called in, we think Silverback is behind the escapes."
"When is Silverback going to learn that nothing he does is going to bring Goldar back?" Tommy asked rhetorically, "Hang tight I'll be there in three and a half hours."
Tommy hung up and, looking at Kim, grumbled, "That just killed the mood, I have to go, when I get back we'll try this again, okay."
Kim nodded as Tommy added, "I'm turning on all the security features, if the proximity alarm goes off, take the girls and hide in the lab."
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Three hours later Tommy was at the Angel Grove Containment center with Jason, Justin, Billy, and Ethan trying to figure out what had gone wrong. As they worked they goofed around some. Especially Jason and Tommy, who didn't understand what they were looking for.
"So," Jason asked, "how's Kim doing?"
"She'll be my fiancee right now if you had waited one minute to call me."
"You were proposing, Jaslee said you were going Kim's shoe."
Ethan laughed as he worked on the generator as his former mentor/teammate/teacher got after Jason for ruining his special moment, "Yeah, it's not like I told him that he needed to call as I watched you kneel down through the hidden spy cams I installed around your house."
Tommy eyes twitched, "Ethan, you better hope that you have Conner's speed." he called out with a growl as he charged the younger blue ranger, his eyes glowing green.
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As Tommy threatened bodily harm to his former teammate and student, Kim was cleaning up from lunch when the proximity alarm went off. She froze, remembering Tommy's instructions to hide should this happen. She hurried into the living room, where the girls were playing with their new toys. She shook her head, some of them would have to stay here, there wasn't room in the apartment for a toy kitchen and a dollhouse.
"What's that noise, Mommy?" Ellie asked, covering her ears with her hand while her doll that she always packed around laid half dressed due to the fact that Ellie was trying to try on the new doll clothes she had received from Santa.
"We're going to go play hide and seek downstairs," Kim said, happily, trying her best not to let them know that she was afraid.
Kim lead them to the study and opened the secret entrance to the lab. She hoped that Tommy was right and Luke and Silverback wouldn't be able to gain excess to the lab. She was well aware that Ethan, Conner, and Kira became power rangers by breaking into his lab after falling into a sinkhole. And there was the time Zeltrax broke in and wreaked the place.
She hurried down the stairs and hit the button at the bottom that closed the entrance. Running towards the computer she types in the sequence for emergency lock down, only she, from the computer, and Tommy from his smart phone could gain excess to the lab.
Upstairs the door opened and closed and Kim heard footsteps walking around the room as the house alarm activated. All of Tommy's allies know how to turn it off and would have turned it off by now. And it wasn't Tommy simply forgetting the password, he hadn't been gone long enough to have gone to Angel Grove and back.
She motioned to Jaslee and Ellie to be quiet, she was sure that the lab was sound proof to a point, but she didn't want to risk it. After Jaslee and Ellie fell silent Kim checked the monitors, Luke was in the house. Her hands curled into fist. She wanted nothing more than to punch the living daylight out of him. She sighed, unclenching her fists, at the moment he wasn't harming anybody and the power ranger code of conduct forbid them from starting the fight just because they didn't like someone.
Kim simply held her breath as Luke searched the rest of the house. If Tommy was there she might have tried to confront Luke, but at the moment she needed to keep the girls happy and calm. If Luke heard them who knew what he would do.
After a heart retching hour Luke gave up and left, disappointed. He had recognized Tommy Oliver from his visit to the Oliver's house in Angel Grove over Thanksgiving when the Friday after he had tried to take the two older girls. He also remembered that his Daughters called him dad. Therefore he had thought that the best place for him to find his worthless ex was at Tommy Oliver's home at the outskirts of Reefside. He was starting to wonder if he was wrong. He'll just go into town and ask around, surely someone would tell him what he need to know. Of course he will have to be careful, Dr. Tommy Oliver was well respected in this town and it might be hard to get the information he wanted.
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Kim had called Tommy as soon as she felt safe enough to do so. Tommy of course had been furious, he felt as if he should have been with them to keep them safe. He immediately jumped into his jeep and drove back to Reefside instead of staying with his parents for the night like he had planned.
As soon as he reached the house, Kim ran out to greet him, "Tommy, I was so worried. I didn't have anyway to protect us and I thought he would find us and kill the girls and I wouldn't be able to do anything."
Tommy grabbed Kim's shoulders, "Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere any time soon, and first thing tomorrow we will go and get you a gun, so you won't have to worry about Luke any more."
Kim nodded her head, relieved and pulled something out of her pocket and handed it to Tommy, "I believe that you were asking me a question when we were interrupted last time."
Tommy laughed as he excepted the ring box and got down on one knee, "According to Jaslee, I look like I'm tying your shoe when I do this. Kim, will you marry me."
Kim couldn't help it she burst into tears, and she knew what was going on, what was wrong with her?"
Tommy immediately got up and pulled her into a hug, "I'm sorry, maybe I should have waited until Luke isn't on the loose any more."
Kim shook her head, "That's not why I'm crying." She brushed the tears away, "Have you ever had a dream that you wanted so much but you had to accept that it wasn't going to happen and then it does happen?"
Tommy nodded he could think of three examples, once when he was a little boy and he had lost his puppy, he had given up hope that he would ever find the puppy. Until one day his uncle arrived with his puppy in the truck with him. Then after he had joined the power ranger team he had wanted to be the best, and then had to give that up as his powers started to fade. Now look at him, he was the best, everybody says so. Rather they knew it was him behind the mask or not.
"That's how I feel, I never thought someone would propose to me and you did twice."
Tommy laughed at Kim, she could be so emotional sometimes, "Yeah well you better answer quickly before Ethan has Conner show up or something."
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A/N: There you go, Ha, I did it, I ended the chapter with the same cliffhanger that the last one ended with will Kim say yes or no, I just wanted to see your guys reactions, so please review.