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M through R › Power Rangers
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
16
Views:
5,395
Reviews:
7
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own The Power Rangers, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Chapter 14
COMPLETELY, UTTERLY SORRY FOR THE DELAY!
I AM BACK, SO ENJOY!!!
CHAPTER 14
It was March now, Tuesday, March 15th. Tommy was just about to leave school, when Connor found him.
"Hey, Dr. O, canyou sign this permit for me?"
"What's it about?"
"It's allows me to practice with the others in the mornings. Please!"
"Sure, Connor." Tommy took a quick second to sign it.
"Thanks Dr. O!" Connor ran out.
Tommy got home to hear yelling and screaming. Kimberly came out from the hallway carrying a screaming Trisha. Trisha tore herself from Kimberly and ran to Tommy. She held Tommy's legs and buried her face into his pant leg.
"What happened?"
"Your darling daughter broke the statue."
"The statue!" Kim nodded.
"I didn't mean to Daddy!" Tommy sighed and put his bags down. Trisha was lifted up into his arms.
"How did she...?"
"She used a chair."
"Trisha Rose Oliver, you know better! Daddy told you not to touch that statue!"
"But why! The wall moved."
"You shouldn't have touched it."
"But you and Mommy always touch it!" Tommy looked at her.
"Because Mommy and I can. That is for grown-ups, not a spoiled little princess." Tommy pointed to her chest and stomach. "No dessert tonight or all this week."
"WHY!"
"Because I said so! Upstairs to your room, now." Tommy kissed her cheek and put her down.
"But I did my homework!"
"Doesn't matter now princess. You are in trouble. Big trouble. Go." Trisha pouted and stomped upstairs. Kimberly leaned up against the doorway. She held her head. "Beautiful!" Tommy quickly caught her. He felt her forehead.
"You're warm!"
"I'm fine!" She held his arms to help steady herself. "Just a little lightheaded, it's nothing. Really."
"Let's go lay down."
"Dinner needs to be made and..."
"I'll do that." Tommy picked her up into his arms and carried her upstairs. "Where's Maddy and Mack?"
"Room, coloring, reading, whatever. Sydney has been weird since the baby talk."
"Baby talk?"
"I told her about the baby. She felt our baby boy move and kick in me."
"Is she okay?"
"I guess, she is looking at me funny now. We need to call to set up those classes again."
"Kim, we have had 4 children, now, don't you think we are set with the child birthing classes?"
"Doctor Walker still wants us doing those things."
"Fine. I'll call them, after I put you down for a short nap."
"All I seem to do is nap."
"Do you want me to call Doctor Walker?" Tommy settled her to the bed. Kim groaned. Tommy placed a pillow between her legs and for her belly. "Better?"
"A little." Tommy rubbed the tension in her back. He kissed cheek and forehead, as he used the tension balls against Kim's back, Doctor Walker suggest them long ago, when she was carrying the twins. Tommy waited and watched his wife. Tommy left Kimberly sleeping. Tommy found Sydney about to walk down the stairs.
"Whoa, baby!" Tommy quickly picked her up. "You know better! Not without your sister's help!" Sydney giggled as Tommy tickled her.
Tommy went to make dinner.
Tommy put the plates out and called the rest down to eat. Trisha sat in her chair pouting.
"If you don't stop that, then you can just go to your room."
"NO dinner!"
"Yep." Trisha unfolded her arms across her chest. "Go wake your mother."
"Why me!"
"Because I told you to." Trisha got up and stomped upstairs. "Trisha Rose Oliver, pick those damn..er...feet up now!" Mackenzie and Madison looked at their father as he corrected himself. They had smiles on their faces. Trisha did pick up her feet. Tommy kissed the twins' headsas he placed Sydney in the high chair. "Don't you two start with me." They covered their mouths with huge smiling, having heard their father curse. Trisha knocked on the door and found Kimberly in the bathroom puking.
"Mommy?" Trisha stood in the doorway to the bathroom.
"I'm fine, princess." Kimberly wiped her mouth. She had woke up from a terrible dream about losing the baby to Mesogog again. It had been a constant nightmare for a few weeks now.
"Daddy made dinner."
"Good." Kimberly stood up and brushed her teeth. Trisha took Kim's hand and pressed her head and hand to Kim's belly.
"Mommy when is the baby coming?"
"Soon, Trisha." Kim spit.
"Will he like me?"
"Of course." Kimberly put her toothbrush down after she finished.
"Will he love me?"
"From the moment he sees you." Kim patted her head and walked out the bathroom.
"You love me?" Kim quickly turned to her daughter and bent down to her level. She held her face and smiled.
"Every single day, from the first moment I saw you." Kimberly lifted Trisha up into her arms and hugged her tightly. "I love you so much. My beautiful, beautiful, baby girl." She rubbed her head against Trisha's head. Kim kissed her head. "Come, let's eat." Trisha smiled and kept her arms around Kim as they walked downstairs.
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Next morning, Trent and Ethan were helping Connor practice some soccer skills. Trent was able to steal the ball from Ethan and score.
"Whoa, dude! Where did you learn those moves from?"
"I played a little soccer myself." Principal Randall walks over and demands a permit. Connor happily pulls out his letter signed by Tommy.
"I see, Dr. Oliver has saved you once again." She walked away.
At the Hayley's Cyberspace, Trent's favorite artist, Carson Brady, was there signing comic books. Principal Randall came in claiming to be a big fan and gives him a special pen.
Next day, this pen was used to turn the rangers day inside out, turning them into a comic book. The ending to the comic book, shows the rangers in trouble. Trent was looking through it and was surprised to find Dr. Oliver asking for help. Trent looks ahead to see the rangers don't survive. Trent goes to Carson and together, they change the ending after Trent reveals to Carson that he is the white ranger and his friends needs his help. Trent is able to save the rangers. Carson reveals to Trent that all their work was sponsored by Antor Mercer, which surprised Trent, since his father didn't like his comic book and drawings in the beginning.
Friday morning, Tommy woke up to find Kimberly gone from the bed. Tommy went downstairs to find his wife playing with the dogs in the backyard, tossing balls around. She was sitting at the steps.
"Morning." Kim looked back.
"Morning," she said. Tommy took a seat beside her after she moved the baby monitor.
"Why are you up so early?" Tommy took a ball and tossed it for the dogs. Kim did the same when Jack brought back one.
"Couldn't sleep with a bouncing baby." Tommy reached over and pressed his hand to her belly. He could feel the baby's head as he pressed down.
"He is up, not down."
"He hasn't moved much."
"Still got time. Doctor Walker says sometimes babies don't move from breech until a month before delivery."
"I know. Trisha didn't rotate until Doctor Walker made her, remember. I can't believe that the twins were the easiest."
"Me either, especially when you see the devils now." Tommy tossed the ball again.
"They are not devils, you spoil them!"
"You spoiled Trisha!"
"You did first!"
"I did not!"
"Yea you have! You've been spoiling her since we brought her home!"
"She is daddy's first little girl."
"See." Kim tossed the ball as well. Ducky tackled Jack for it. Tommy laughed and tossed 2 balls. Mooshu got one, as Jack fought Ducky for the second one. Tommy put his arm around Kimberly and kissed the side of her head.
At school, Ethan and Devin were playing 'Dragon Wars'. Principal Randall takes the cards. Elsa decided to make the Ruby Dragon into a monster to defeat the rangers. Tommy finds a depressed Ethan during class and then decides to help his student out by going to talk to Principal Randall at lunch break. Tommy walks into the office to see Principal Randall transform into Elsa. Elsa and Tommy battles. Students crowded around as they moved outside fighting. All the students gasp as their principal transforms into Elsa, then vanishes through an invisaportal.
Trent decides to help Ethan back and get the card from Elsa. He goes to Mesogog's island. He knew unlike the rest that Elsa was Principal Randall. Elsa and Trent battles and the Ruby Dragon is created. Elsa unleashes it on the rangers who were waiting on Trent in the woods. The rangers with Trent's help are about to defeat the monster.
They head back to school. Dr. Mercer comes and ask about the new principal job. Tommy wonders if Dr. Mercer is interested in taking up the job, but Trent protests, saying his father is a little too busy for that. Elsa sneaks the Ruby Dragon card into Mercer's pocket, so as he reaches to answer his cell phone it falls out. Ethan picks up the card.
"Hey, I know this card. How did you...?"
"I don't know. Is it yours, Trent?"
"No, Dad." Dr. Mercer could feel Mesogog coming. Tommy quickly grabbed his arm, as Dr. Mercer nearly collapsed.
"Anton, you don't look so well, let me.."
"I'm fine." Dr. Mercer walks away. "Just leave me alone." He begins to run as they follow. They found Dr. Mercer in a class room. Dr. Mercer collapses to his knees and Mesogog surfaces. Kira, Connor, Ethan and Dr. Oliver are stunned by this.
"You have betrayed me, son!"
"No, Dad, I wouldn't," Trent said.
"You lied to us!" Connor said. Dr. Mercer reappears.
"I'm sorry, Trent." His hand reaches up and he disappears into an invisiportal.
Kimberly sat on the couch with Sydney on her lap, as the rangers came by after school, minus Trent. Tommy had told her about Dr. Mercer being Mesogog and Elsa being Principal Randall.
"I knew I didn't like her for some reason."
"Beautiful, that's not the main concern here. Trent lied to us."
"He was protecting his father, Tommy."
"He lied to us! We are his teammates, he should have trusted us," Connor yelled. "How could he do that to us!"
"Calm down, Connor," Kim said. Tommy had his arm around Kimberly, his hand being held by Sydney's hands. She was playing with his hand.
"Kim's right. I am willing to give Trent a chance to explain himself. But, if he can't trust him, I'm going to ask him to give up his morpher."
"Where is Trent?"
"After school he disappeared, probably to go help Mesogog."
"He is not evil," Kira said. "Sure, he lied to us and had made mistakes, but who hasn't."
"Kira's right," Kim said. "We have to give him a chance, one chance."
"Fine."
"We'll all talk tomorrow, until then, you 3 go home and get some rest."
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Since it was Saturday, Tommy called for an early meeting. The rangers all arrived around 9 am. Kimberly opened the door for them.
"Morning, Mrs. Oliver."
"Morning, come in. I made breakfast, so I hope you all are hungry."
"Great," Connor said. They followed her into kitchen. Tommy was feeding Sydney some cereal. He was making funny noises and doing the airplane gameto help Sydney eat.
"Yum, yum, yum." Sydney smiled and ate. Tommy kissed Sydney and went back to feeding her.
"Wow, what a sight," Connor said. He laughed with Ethan. Kira simply smiled. Tommy cleared his throat and sat up straight.
"Where is Trent?"
"He's not here yet."
"Didn't you call and tell him 9?" Kim asked getting more plates down from the cabinet.
"I'll go get him," Tommy said. Tommy kissed the top of Kim's head as he left.
"What would you 3 like to drink ?"
"I'll get it," Kira said taking the plates away. "You should be resting." Connor smiled as Kim was made to sit down.
"Have you been talking to my husband!"
"Mrs. O, he would inflict serious pain,serious pain, if we allowed you to wait on us," Ethan said. "You just sit."
"Well, help yourself to whatever you want." Connor made himself a huge plate. Kimberly went to feeding Sydney. Trisha came downstairs ready to go outside.
"Mommy can I have some more juice?"
"Go ahead." Mackenzie looked up from her empty plate. The last girl to finish up. Madison upstairs looking for her handheld video game to go outside with. "You too." Mack smiled as Ethan filled her juice cup with more milk.
The rangers ate, as Kimberly took the girls outside to play for a while. Madison was playing her video game as Trisha, Sydney and Mackenzie ran around with the dogs.
"Mommy, help." She moved beside Kimberly to help her. Kimberly pulled her to her lap and they played.
"Trisha watchoutSydney!" Trisha helped Sydney back to her feet after Ducky and Jack jumped up and pushed her down.
Inside the kitchen, Connor, Ethan and Kira were talking about how far they have come since becoming rangers. They waited until everyone had left the kitchen.
"I mean, who would believe how far we have come since we first meet?"
"Especially you two," Kira said getting some more juice.
"I have changed." Connor smiled as he remember his first battle with the Tyrannodrones and his last battled against Zeltrax to save Krista.
"Yea, you have!" They all smiled. "I'm still the same, though," Ethan said. "Just the smartest and coolest Blue Ranger." Connor and Kira looked at each other.
"Your head has definately swelled," Connor said. Ethan kicked his feet up on the table.
"Hey, but what about Dr. Oliver. Can you believe our science teacher was a legendary Power Ranger?" They all smiled as flashes of finding out Tommy was a former ranger and when he first morphed into the Black ranger.
"That is pretty sweet."
"It hasn't all been sweet. I mean, we almost lost Trent because of the white gem's spell," Kira said. "Don't you think he deserves one chance to explain himself?" Ethan and Connor nodded.
Tommy arrived with Trent. He found his wife and children outside playing.
"Where are they?"
"The lab," Kim said looking up from the video game. "Hey, Trent."
"Hey, Mrs. Oliver."
"Go on down, they are waiting." Tommy led the way. Trent finds the Rangers talking about him.
"I just can't believe he lied to us," Connor said.
"It hasn't been easy," Trent said. Trent told them how the white gem chose and how he discovered his father's secret. "I believe that my father could get rid of Mesogog. I promise him to keep that secret, because I felt like he could handle it. He's my father."
"I knew Dr. Mercer, Trent. He was, is a great friend. I understand your loyalty for him, but..if we can't trust you. We are not a team." A monster appeared on screen. Trent joins the rangers and ends up saving Connor from a powerful blow. As a team, the rangers defeated the monster and return back to Dr. Oliver's house.
"Good job, Trent," Kira said, as Ethan and her are congratulating him on a great job. Both Kira and Ethan vote Trent to the team. Dr. Oliver agrees and looks at Connor.
"Connor, how do you feel?"
"You know one of these days we are going to have to face Mesogog. Can you do that? Are you willing to do that? Will you help us and defeat him?" Connor asked. He wasn't too happy to find his friends and Dr. Oliver had opened their arms for Trent again so quickly after battle.
"If Mesogog's wins. I lose my father forever. I can't allow that. I won't. I will do whatever it takes to defeat Mesogog. It's the only way to save my father."
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With countless hours of searching and scanning with Hayley, Tommy paced around the lab. Kimberly Oliver, his wife being held captive by Zeltrax. Hayley and Tommy had just found out that Dr. Mercer and Mesogog were now separated and had started a plan to stop Mesogog's plan, but with Kim's captured all their attentions went to getting Kimberly back.
Kimberly was coming back from grocery shopping. It was now April, April 15th, Friday. She had put the girls into the house and was about to bring the final bags inside, when Zeltrax appeared before you. Kimberly was trying to beat Tommy home from school, after she spent just a little longer at the mall than expected. Kim gasped at the sight of Zeltrax.
"What are you doing here?"
"What a beautiful home you have, Mrs. Oliver."
"What do you want!"
"You, and your son." Kim looked at her front door to see Trisha.
"Mommy!"
"Go back inside!" Zeltrax grabbed Kimberly. Tommy was pulling up to the driveway.
"Let her go!"
"Good day, Tommy!" They disappeared with Kimberly screaming.
"KIMBERLY!"
Kimberly gasped as she woke up. She looked around the cage. She was very happy she didn't forget to put on the bracelet that Tommy made especially for her to contact him in case of any trouble. Though Zeltrax had tried to break it, it still was sending off a signal, faint, but in time, she prayed Hayley would be able to locate it. Kim rubbed her belly, the baby was jerking in her stomach.
"It's going to be okay. Daddy is coming."
"Yes, he is." Zeltrax walked up to her cage. "Food?" Zeltrax tossed the tray at her. Kim turned her head. "Must keep you alive until your husband comes, then I'll kill you." Kimberly threw the food back at him. "Feisty, I love it. Time for your show."
Tommy had a flashback of a few mornings back waking, sitting besides his wife, as she woke up from another nightmare breathing hard.
Tommy just sat there, rubbing her back with his lips against her head.
"Tommy, I just have this weird feeling something seriously bad is coming."
"Why?"
"It's evil and it's coming."
"Don't say that," Tommy said rubbing her head. He held her tightly.
"I'm scared." Kim's head buried into his chest.
"I'll always protect you. I'll always be there to save you. You believe me, right?" She nodded.
"I love you."
"I love you too, Beautiful."
A signal came to the screen broke his flash. Hayley smiled.
"Found her!"
"Great how do we get to her!"
"That's complicated, Zeltrax has that area bugged."
"We need to get Kim back here now!"
"I'm trying Tommy," Hayley said.
"I know, sorry." Kim's scream as she was taken still rang in Tommy's head. She looked so helpless as she reached for him. A video came up. Tommy looked angrily at the screen.
"Well, well, it took you long enough, Tommy."
"Zeltrax. Give me back my wife, now."
"Yes, yes, I have your wife. My, my, what a beauty. Just like I remembered her." He turned, behind him, Kimberly was hung by her hands and feet. "And this baby," Zeltrax pressed his hands to her stomach. "You destroyed my son. I must destroy yours, don't you think that is fair?"
"Leave my wife and son alone, Zeltrax. This is between us, you and me, not them!"
"I have nothing now thanks to you! I have no life, I have nothing! You get everything! A wife, 4, 5 children while I am stuck like this! It ends! It all ends for you! I will have your wife's head and your son will never see daylight." The screen went to static. Kira gasped and covered her mouth. Trent put his arm around her. Tommy banged on the counter.
"Where are they!" Hayley brought up their position on screen at Tommy's demand. Tommy looked at it and knew the area.
"Dr. O, maybe you should..."
"Out of my way!" Tommy said to Connor as he pushed past him.
"Tommy, you should really rethink this before going..."
"If you value your life, Hayley, don't finish that sentence."
"It is a trap Tommy!"
"That is my wife and son!"
"And what your daughters upstairs!"
"We all know that this hard, Dr. O, but.." Kira stopped as Tommy looked at her with anger in his eyes. "But going in there without a plan, Kim or the baby could get hurt."
"Kira, that is my wife, that is my son! If Zeltrax hurts either of them, I'll tear him from limp to limp. Now get out of my way."
"We are helping you," Connor said. "We are a team, remember! This effects all of us. You need our help." Tommy nodded to them.
Tommy battled Zeltrax in a heated exchange. Tommy ended up destroying Zeltrax's cave fortress like he did the ship.
"Dr. O, we have to get out of here!" Tommy broke the chains holding Kimberly. Kimberly was helped down and hugged Tommy as he was demorphed due to the intensive battled against Zeltrax.
"I didn't think I would ever see you again!"
"Don't be silly. Of course, I would be here." They kissed. "Come on, let's go." Kimberly took his hand as they went to leave. Kim stopped and grabbed her stomach.
"What? What's wrong?"
"Ow! I...my water just broke."
"You gotta be kidding me." Zeltrax, fallen, shot at the couple. Tommy lifted her into his arms as he ran after the rangers. They made it out.
"Tommy, stop!"
"No, the minute we do, Nathaniel will be born." Kimberly was hurting from the contractions. She gripped Tommy hard, causing him to groan to each contraction. Tommy rushed her to the hospital.
"Kim push!" It was early Saturday morning, nearly 2 am.
"It's too soon!" She screamed back at the doctor. Doctor Walker had rushed to the hospital to delivery the baby. She was urging Kimberly to push.
"We can't stop that now, Kim. Please, come on, girl. Push!" Kim shook her head.
"NO! It's tooo soon!"
"He is just over the safety zone, Kimberly! Babies born now have a great chance of survival. Now come on, and push!"
"It's too soon!"
"Trust me, this baby has to come out now or he will die!" Tommy was holding Kimberly up, with his arm around her, holding her hand.
"Push, Kim!" She turned her head to his chest.
"It's too soon!"
"PUSH!" Kim screamed out as she pushed. Tommy kissed her forehead. Kim sat back crying.
"Okay, okay. Prep for an emergency Caesarean.”
"What, wait a minute, what does that mean!"
"We need prep okay, this baby doesn't look like he wants come down now and he needs to come out now before he runs out of air."
"Tommy," Kim looked at him. She was breathing hard.
"Kim, one more round and I need you to give your all and push him out!" Kim nodded. "Now push!" Kim strained with all her might. Tommy pressed his lips to her head as she pushed. The baby came down. Doctor Walker rushed the baby to the table, not even giving Tommy the chance to cut the cords. Tommy saw his son, bloody, but very blue, and not as Trisha or any of his other children came out.
"What, what's going on?" Kim said weakly. Another doctor worked on cleaning her out. "He's not crying, Tommy. Why isn't he crying!"
"Doctor Walker..."
"Step back, Tommy." She was rubbing the baby up and down. "He's not breathing properly. He needs the NICU now."
"I want my son! I want to see my son!"
"Mrs. Oliver, calm down." Doctor Walker wrapped the baby. She brought him over for a second.
"Why isn't he crying!" Kim said as she tried to touch him.
"I have to get him to NICU now, he needs air."
"Will he okay!"
"The sooner I get him into NICU the better I'll feel."
"Please save my son!"
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Tommy rolled Kimberly down to the NICU section. Two nurses welcomed them into the room.
"Mrs. Oliver, he is a strong one," Doctor Walker said as she finished up the medication she gave the baby. The baby was placed in the incubator where he was kept warm, a few lines running in him, especially in his nose to allow him to breath right.
"How is he?"
"I just gave him a little theophylline to help with his breathing."
"Why are there so many lines?"
"He need help, Mrs. Oliver, with his breathing. This ventilator will ease that. He's a cute little one," Doctor Walker said rubbing the baby's back. "Only 1200 grams, so we have to work on getting his weight up."
"How big is that?" Tommy said as a nurse dressed him after she did Kimberly.
"About 4 pounds."
"He'll be fine in a few days right?" Kimberly said as she stood up and stuck her hands into the barrier.
"Yes. He will be needing some shots, especially antibiotics, and right now, we'll give him some IVs through his umbilical cord. But hopefully in a few days, we are going to need some breast milk from you to feed him." Tommy patted Kim's back as his other hand was inside touching his tiny son. "What are you two going to name him?"
"Nathaniel, Nathaniel Thomas Oliver." The nurse smiled at Tommy and wrote down her clipboard.
"What a wonderful name." Tommy kissed the side of Kim's head.
"He's going to be okay," Tommy said against Kim's head. Both of her hands rubbing up and down his body.
"He's soo tiny, Tommy." She looked up at him. "So tiny. I just want to hold him."
"We will, Beautiful. We will soon."
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Kimberly was breast feeding the baby when the grandparents arrived with the girls a few days later. They had came the day he was born, but with all the tubes running in and out, Kimberly and Tommy thought it would be best to give a couple more days before the children should see him again. The rangers and Hayley came with them as well.
"Oh, he's tiny!" Trisha yelled through the glass.
"Yes, he is." Tommy was sitting beside Kimberly, touching Nathaniel's face as he feed. He smiled and waved to them.
"Why, is he tiny, Papa?"
"He was a little early, princess."
"Why that bad?"
"Because, babies needs to stay in Mommies for a little longer than he did."
"How long?"
"Like 9 months."
"That is a lot."
"I know." Tommy's father put her down and motioned for Tommy to come out.
"How is he?"
"Doctors are happy to see him eating so soon."
"That's great," Hayley said.
"Yea."
"So, when do they think you can take him home?"
"In about another week or so."
"That's great, Dr. O."
"Yea. He's going to be okay."
Nathaniel was kept in the incubator for about another week. Kimberly carried him inside the house. It was Sunday, April 24th. Kimberly laid the baby to the crib with Tommy standing beside her. He put his arm around her shoulders.
"He's home. Our son is home."
"I love you." Kim looked up and wrapped her arms around Tommy's waist.
"I love you too." They kissed.
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Tommy came from his shower to find his wife and son, lying in bed. It was Tuesday morning. Tommy smiled. Kimberly in that zone between awake and sleeping, laid on her side, facing her son. Waking up to his son and wife was a magical feeling for Tommy. Kimberly hated traveling back and forth from the nursery to get the baby since he was brought home, but seriously she didn't want to leave him alone. Being premature, she always made sure his breathing was in order. It scared her when his breath would sometimes catch, but Tommy knew his son was strong and would be okay. Little Nathaniel would grasp his mother's finger as he slept on his side. Tommy wiped down his head and bent down to kiss both of them. Kimberly woke up as his lips touched her cheek. She moaned and sat up.
"I'll make breakfast."
"No, you just stay. I'll be fine."
"Trisha and.."
"Go, rest." Kim nodded and laid back down. Tommy went and woke up Trisha. He got her ready. Tommy checked on the other girls before carrying a sleepy Trisha downstairs to feed her. Sydney woke up and went straight for the bedroom.
"Mommy." Kimberly woke up to see her little head barely over the bed.
"Morning, baby."
"Mommy." Kimberly reached over and helped her into the bed. Sydney went to placed her face close to the baby, but Kimberly held her back.
"No, sweetie, not too close, ok. See baby Nathaniel?" Sydney smiled and nodded, as she pointed to the baby. Tommy came upstairs to find the twins still sleeping, but a missing Sydney.
"Syd!" Tommy rushed to find her. Tommy smiled as he stopped at his doorway to the bedroom to find all 3 of them sleeping. He went inside and kissed all 3 of them. "Love you."
"I love you too," Kimberly said. Tommy touched Nathaniel's cheek. The baby smiled in his sleep. Tommy kissed him again.
"He's soo beautiful, Kim."
"Of course he is. He's your son. Your son, Tommy."
"My son." They kissed on the lips.
"Have a good day at work."
"Thanks." Tommy kissed the side of her head and let her go back to sleep. Tommy went to say goodbye to the twins. Trisha was about to open the door to go outside, with her pink bookbag, purple lunch box and doll, as Tommy stood at the top of the stairs. Tommy smiled. Tommy put the gate across the steps as he went downstairs. Tommy stopped at the door and looked back.
"You coming, Daddy?"
"Of course princess." Tommy touched the top of her head. Trisha held her hand up for him to take it. Tommy took her hand and closed the door behind him, he was a truly blessed man.
Just 2 more chapters onto an amazing finale!
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CHAPTER 14
It was March now, Tuesday, March 15th. Tommy was just about to leave school, when Connor found him.
"Hey, Dr. O, canyou sign this permit for me?"
"What's it about?"
"It's allows me to practice with the others in the mornings. Please!"
"Sure, Connor." Tommy took a quick second to sign it.
"Thanks Dr. O!" Connor ran out.
Tommy got home to hear yelling and screaming. Kimberly came out from the hallway carrying a screaming Trisha. Trisha tore herself from Kimberly and ran to Tommy. She held Tommy's legs and buried her face into his pant leg.
"What happened?"
"Your darling daughter broke the statue."
"The statue!" Kim nodded.
"I didn't mean to Daddy!" Tommy sighed and put his bags down. Trisha was lifted up into his arms.
"How did she...?"
"She used a chair."
"Trisha Rose Oliver, you know better! Daddy told you not to touch that statue!"
"But why! The wall moved."
"You shouldn't have touched it."
"But you and Mommy always touch it!" Tommy looked at her.
"Because Mommy and I can. That is for grown-ups, not a spoiled little princess." Tommy pointed to her chest and stomach. "No dessert tonight or all this week."
"WHY!"
"Because I said so! Upstairs to your room, now." Tommy kissed her cheek and put her down.
"But I did my homework!"
"Doesn't matter now princess. You are in trouble. Big trouble. Go." Trisha pouted and stomped upstairs. Kimberly leaned up against the doorway. She held her head. "Beautiful!" Tommy quickly caught her. He felt her forehead.
"You're warm!"
"I'm fine!" She held his arms to help steady herself. "Just a little lightheaded, it's nothing. Really."
"Let's go lay down."
"Dinner needs to be made and..."
"I'll do that." Tommy picked her up into his arms and carried her upstairs. "Where's Maddy and Mack?"
"Room, coloring, reading, whatever. Sydney has been weird since the baby talk."
"Baby talk?"
"I told her about the baby. She felt our baby boy move and kick in me."
"Is she okay?"
"I guess, she is looking at me funny now. We need to call to set up those classes again."
"Kim, we have had 4 children, now, don't you think we are set with the child birthing classes?"
"Doctor Walker still wants us doing those things."
"Fine. I'll call them, after I put you down for a short nap."
"All I seem to do is nap."
"Do you want me to call Doctor Walker?" Tommy settled her to the bed. Kim groaned. Tommy placed a pillow between her legs and for her belly. "Better?"
"A little." Tommy rubbed the tension in her back. He kissed cheek and forehead, as he used the tension balls against Kim's back, Doctor Walker suggest them long ago, when she was carrying the twins. Tommy waited and watched his wife. Tommy left Kimberly sleeping. Tommy found Sydney about to walk down the stairs.
"Whoa, baby!" Tommy quickly picked her up. "You know better! Not without your sister's help!" Sydney giggled as Tommy tickled her.
Tommy went to make dinner.
Tommy put the plates out and called the rest down to eat. Trisha sat in her chair pouting.
"If you don't stop that, then you can just go to your room."
"NO dinner!"
"Yep." Trisha unfolded her arms across her chest. "Go wake your mother."
"Why me!"
"Because I told you to." Trisha got up and stomped upstairs. "Trisha Rose Oliver, pick those damn..er...feet up now!" Mackenzie and Madison looked at their father as he corrected himself. They had smiles on their faces. Trisha did pick up her feet. Tommy kissed the twins' headsas he placed Sydney in the high chair. "Don't you two start with me." They covered their mouths with huge smiling, having heard their father curse. Trisha knocked on the door and found Kimberly in the bathroom puking.
"Mommy?" Trisha stood in the doorway to the bathroom.
"I'm fine, princess." Kimberly wiped her mouth. She had woke up from a terrible dream about losing the baby to Mesogog again. It had been a constant nightmare for a few weeks now.
"Daddy made dinner."
"Good." Kimberly stood up and brushed her teeth. Trisha took Kim's hand and pressed her head and hand to Kim's belly.
"Mommy when is the baby coming?"
"Soon, Trisha." Kim spit.
"Will he like me?"
"Of course." Kimberly put her toothbrush down after she finished.
"Will he love me?"
"From the moment he sees you." Kim patted her head and walked out the bathroom.
"You love me?" Kim quickly turned to her daughter and bent down to her level. She held her face and smiled.
"Every single day, from the first moment I saw you." Kimberly lifted Trisha up into her arms and hugged her tightly. "I love you so much. My beautiful, beautiful, baby girl." She rubbed her head against Trisha's head. Kim kissed her head. "Come, let's eat." Trisha smiled and kept her arms around Kim as they walked downstairs.
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Next morning, Trent and Ethan were helping Connor practice some soccer skills. Trent was able to steal the ball from Ethan and score.
"Whoa, dude! Where did you learn those moves from?"
"I played a little soccer myself." Principal Randall walks over and demands a permit. Connor happily pulls out his letter signed by Tommy.
"I see, Dr. Oliver has saved you once again." She walked away.
At the Hayley's Cyberspace, Trent's favorite artist, Carson Brady, was there signing comic books. Principal Randall came in claiming to be a big fan and gives him a special pen.
Next day, this pen was used to turn the rangers day inside out, turning them into a comic book. The ending to the comic book, shows the rangers in trouble. Trent was looking through it and was surprised to find Dr. Oliver asking for help. Trent looks ahead to see the rangers don't survive. Trent goes to Carson and together, they change the ending after Trent reveals to Carson that he is the white ranger and his friends needs his help. Trent is able to save the rangers. Carson reveals to Trent that all their work was sponsored by Antor Mercer, which surprised Trent, since his father didn't like his comic book and drawings in the beginning.
Friday morning, Tommy woke up to find Kimberly gone from the bed. Tommy went downstairs to find his wife playing with the dogs in the backyard, tossing balls around. She was sitting at the steps.
"Morning." Kim looked back.
"Morning," she said. Tommy took a seat beside her after she moved the baby monitor.
"Why are you up so early?" Tommy took a ball and tossed it for the dogs. Kim did the same when Jack brought back one.
"Couldn't sleep with a bouncing baby." Tommy reached over and pressed his hand to her belly. He could feel the baby's head as he pressed down.
"He is up, not down."
"He hasn't moved much."
"Still got time. Doctor Walker says sometimes babies don't move from breech until a month before delivery."
"I know. Trisha didn't rotate until Doctor Walker made her, remember. I can't believe that the twins were the easiest."
"Me either, especially when you see the devils now." Tommy tossed the ball again.
"They are not devils, you spoil them!"
"You spoiled Trisha!"
"You did first!"
"I did not!"
"Yea you have! You've been spoiling her since we brought her home!"
"She is daddy's first little girl."
"See." Kim tossed the ball as well. Ducky tackled Jack for it. Tommy laughed and tossed 2 balls. Mooshu got one, as Jack fought Ducky for the second one. Tommy put his arm around Kimberly and kissed the side of her head.
At school, Ethan and Devin were playing 'Dragon Wars'. Principal Randall takes the cards. Elsa decided to make the Ruby Dragon into a monster to defeat the rangers. Tommy finds a depressed Ethan during class and then decides to help his student out by going to talk to Principal Randall at lunch break. Tommy walks into the office to see Principal Randall transform into Elsa. Elsa and Tommy battles. Students crowded around as they moved outside fighting. All the students gasp as their principal transforms into Elsa, then vanishes through an invisaportal.
Trent decides to help Ethan back and get the card from Elsa. He goes to Mesogog's island. He knew unlike the rest that Elsa was Principal Randall. Elsa and Trent battles and the Ruby Dragon is created. Elsa unleashes it on the rangers who were waiting on Trent in the woods. The rangers with Trent's help are about to defeat the monster.
They head back to school. Dr. Mercer comes and ask about the new principal job. Tommy wonders if Dr. Mercer is interested in taking up the job, but Trent protests, saying his father is a little too busy for that. Elsa sneaks the Ruby Dragon card into Mercer's pocket, so as he reaches to answer his cell phone it falls out. Ethan picks up the card.
"Hey, I know this card. How did you...?"
"I don't know. Is it yours, Trent?"
"No, Dad." Dr. Mercer could feel Mesogog coming. Tommy quickly grabbed his arm, as Dr. Mercer nearly collapsed.
"Anton, you don't look so well, let me.."
"I'm fine." Dr. Mercer walks away. "Just leave me alone." He begins to run as they follow. They found Dr. Mercer in a class room. Dr. Mercer collapses to his knees and Mesogog surfaces. Kira, Connor, Ethan and Dr. Oliver are stunned by this.
"You have betrayed me, son!"
"No, Dad, I wouldn't," Trent said.
"You lied to us!" Connor said. Dr. Mercer reappears.
"I'm sorry, Trent." His hand reaches up and he disappears into an invisiportal.
Kimberly sat on the couch with Sydney on her lap, as the rangers came by after school, minus Trent. Tommy had told her about Dr. Mercer being Mesogog and Elsa being Principal Randall.
"I knew I didn't like her for some reason."
"Beautiful, that's not the main concern here. Trent lied to us."
"He was protecting his father, Tommy."
"He lied to us! We are his teammates, he should have trusted us," Connor yelled. "How could he do that to us!"
"Calm down, Connor," Kim said. Tommy had his arm around Kimberly, his hand being held by Sydney's hands. She was playing with his hand.
"Kim's right. I am willing to give Trent a chance to explain himself. But, if he can't trust him, I'm going to ask him to give up his morpher."
"Where is Trent?"
"After school he disappeared, probably to go help Mesogog."
"He is not evil," Kira said. "Sure, he lied to us and had made mistakes, but who hasn't."
"Kira's right," Kim said. "We have to give him a chance, one chance."
"Fine."
"We'll all talk tomorrow, until then, you 3 go home and get some rest."
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Since it was Saturday, Tommy called for an early meeting. The rangers all arrived around 9 am. Kimberly opened the door for them.
"Morning, Mrs. Oliver."
"Morning, come in. I made breakfast, so I hope you all are hungry."
"Great," Connor said. They followed her into kitchen. Tommy was feeding Sydney some cereal. He was making funny noises and doing the airplane gameto help Sydney eat.
"Yum, yum, yum." Sydney smiled and ate. Tommy kissed Sydney and went back to feeding her.
"Wow, what a sight," Connor said. He laughed with Ethan. Kira simply smiled. Tommy cleared his throat and sat up straight.
"Where is Trent?"
"He's not here yet."
"Didn't you call and tell him 9?" Kim asked getting more plates down from the cabinet.
"I'll go get him," Tommy said. Tommy kissed the top of Kim's head as he left.
"What would you 3 like to drink ?"
"I'll get it," Kira said taking the plates away. "You should be resting." Connor smiled as Kim was made to sit down.
"Have you been talking to my husband!"
"Mrs. O, he would inflict serious pain,serious pain, if we allowed you to wait on us," Ethan said. "You just sit."
"Well, help yourself to whatever you want." Connor made himself a huge plate. Kimberly went to feeding Sydney. Trisha came downstairs ready to go outside.
"Mommy can I have some more juice?"
"Go ahead." Mackenzie looked up from her empty plate. The last girl to finish up. Madison upstairs looking for her handheld video game to go outside with. "You too." Mack smiled as Ethan filled her juice cup with more milk.
The rangers ate, as Kimberly took the girls outside to play for a while. Madison was playing her video game as Trisha, Sydney and Mackenzie ran around with the dogs.
"Mommy, help." She moved beside Kimberly to help her. Kimberly pulled her to her lap and they played.
"Trisha watchoutSydney!" Trisha helped Sydney back to her feet after Ducky and Jack jumped up and pushed her down.
Inside the kitchen, Connor, Ethan and Kira were talking about how far they have come since becoming rangers. They waited until everyone had left the kitchen.
"I mean, who would believe how far we have come since we first meet?"
"Especially you two," Kira said getting some more juice.
"I have changed." Connor smiled as he remember his first battle with the Tyrannodrones and his last battled against Zeltrax to save Krista.
"Yea, you have!" They all smiled. "I'm still the same, though," Ethan said. "Just the smartest and coolest Blue Ranger." Connor and Kira looked at each other.
"Your head has definately swelled," Connor said. Ethan kicked his feet up on the table.
"Hey, but what about Dr. Oliver. Can you believe our science teacher was a legendary Power Ranger?" They all smiled as flashes of finding out Tommy was a former ranger and when he first morphed into the Black ranger.
"That is pretty sweet."
"It hasn't all been sweet. I mean, we almost lost Trent because of the white gem's spell," Kira said. "Don't you think he deserves one chance to explain himself?" Ethan and Connor nodded.
Tommy arrived with Trent. He found his wife and children outside playing.
"Where are they?"
"The lab," Kim said looking up from the video game. "Hey, Trent."
"Hey, Mrs. Oliver."
"Go on down, they are waiting." Tommy led the way. Trent finds the Rangers talking about him.
"I just can't believe he lied to us," Connor said.
"It hasn't been easy," Trent said. Trent told them how the white gem chose and how he discovered his father's secret. "I believe that my father could get rid of Mesogog. I promise him to keep that secret, because I felt like he could handle it. He's my father."
"I knew Dr. Mercer, Trent. He was, is a great friend. I understand your loyalty for him, but..if we can't trust you. We are not a team." A monster appeared on screen. Trent joins the rangers and ends up saving Connor from a powerful blow. As a team, the rangers defeated the monster and return back to Dr. Oliver's house.
"Good job, Trent," Kira said, as Ethan and her are congratulating him on a great job. Both Kira and Ethan vote Trent to the team. Dr. Oliver agrees and looks at Connor.
"Connor, how do you feel?"
"You know one of these days we are going to have to face Mesogog. Can you do that? Are you willing to do that? Will you help us and defeat him?" Connor asked. He wasn't too happy to find his friends and Dr. Oliver had opened their arms for Trent again so quickly after battle.
"If Mesogog's wins. I lose my father forever. I can't allow that. I won't. I will do whatever it takes to defeat Mesogog. It's the only way to save my father."
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With countless hours of searching and scanning with Hayley, Tommy paced around the lab. Kimberly Oliver, his wife being held captive by Zeltrax. Hayley and Tommy had just found out that Dr. Mercer and Mesogog were now separated and had started a plan to stop Mesogog's plan, but with Kim's captured all their attentions went to getting Kimberly back.
Kimberly was coming back from grocery shopping. It was now April, April 15th, Friday. She had put the girls into the house and was about to bring the final bags inside, when Zeltrax appeared before you. Kimberly was trying to beat Tommy home from school, after she spent just a little longer at the mall than expected. Kim gasped at the sight of Zeltrax.
"What are you doing here?"
"What a beautiful home you have, Mrs. Oliver."
"What do you want!"
"You, and your son." Kim looked at her front door to see Trisha.
"Mommy!"
"Go back inside!" Zeltrax grabbed Kimberly. Tommy was pulling up to the driveway.
"Let her go!"
"Good day, Tommy!" They disappeared with Kimberly screaming.
"KIMBERLY!"
Kimberly gasped as she woke up. She looked around the cage. She was very happy she didn't forget to put on the bracelet that Tommy made especially for her to contact him in case of any trouble. Though Zeltrax had tried to break it, it still was sending off a signal, faint, but in time, she prayed Hayley would be able to locate it. Kim rubbed her belly, the baby was jerking in her stomach.
"It's going to be okay. Daddy is coming."
"Yes, he is." Zeltrax walked up to her cage. "Food?" Zeltrax tossed the tray at her. Kim turned her head. "Must keep you alive until your husband comes, then I'll kill you." Kimberly threw the food back at him. "Feisty, I love it. Time for your show."
Tommy had a flashback of a few mornings back waking, sitting besides his wife, as she woke up from another nightmare breathing hard.
Tommy just sat there, rubbing her back with his lips against her head.
"Tommy, I just have this weird feeling something seriously bad is coming."
"Why?"
"It's evil and it's coming."
"Don't say that," Tommy said rubbing her head. He held her tightly.
"I'm scared." Kim's head buried into his chest.
"I'll always protect you. I'll always be there to save you. You believe me, right?" She nodded.
"I love you."
"I love you too, Beautiful."
A signal came to the screen broke his flash. Hayley smiled.
"Found her!"
"Great how do we get to her!"
"That's complicated, Zeltrax has that area bugged."
"We need to get Kim back here now!"
"I'm trying Tommy," Hayley said.
"I know, sorry." Kim's scream as she was taken still rang in Tommy's head. She looked so helpless as she reached for him. A video came up. Tommy looked angrily at the screen.
"Well, well, it took you long enough, Tommy."
"Zeltrax. Give me back my wife, now."
"Yes, yes, I have your wife. My, my, what a beauty. Just like I remembered her." He turned, behind him, Kimberly was hung by her hands and feet. "And this baby," Zeltrax pressed his hands to her stomach. "You destroyed my son. I must destroy yours, don't you think that is fair?"
"Leave my wife and son alone, Zeltrax. This is between us, you and me, not them!"
"I have nothing now thanks to you! I have no life, I have nothing! You get everything! A wife, 4, 5 children while I am stuck like this! It ends! It all ends for you! I will have your wife's head and your son will never see daylight." The screen went to static. Kira gasped and covered her mouth. Trent put his arm around her. Tommy banged on the counter.
"Where are they!" Hayley brought up their position on screen at Tommy's demand. Tommy looked at it and knew the area.
"Dr. O, maybe you should..."
"Out of my way!" Tommy said to Connor as he pushed past him.
"Tommy, you should really rethink this before going..."
"If you value your life, Hayley, don't finish that sentence."
"It is a trap Tommy!"
"That is my wife and son!"
"And what your daughters upstairs!"
"We all know that this hard, Dr. O, but.." Kira stopped as Tommy looked at her with anger in his eyes. "But going in there without a plan, Kim or the baby could get hurt."
"Kira, that is my wife, that is my son! If Zeltrax hurts either of them, I'll tear him from limp to limp. Now get out of my way."
"We are helping you," Connor said. "We are a team, remember! This effects all of us. You need our help." Tommy nodded to them.
Tommy battled Zeltrax in a heated exchange. Tommy ended up destroying Zeltrax's cave fortress like he did the ship.
"Dr. O, we have to get out of here!" Tommy broke the chains holding Kimberly. Kimberly was helped down and hugged Tommy as he was demorphed due to the intensive battled against Zeltrax.
"I didn't think I would ever see you again!"
"Don't be silly. Of course, I would be here." They kissed. "Come on, let's go." Kimberly took his hand as they went to leave. Kim stopped and grabbed her stomach.
"What? What's wrong?"
"Ow! I...my water just broke."
"You gotta be kidding me." Zeltrax, fallen, shot at the couple. Tommy lifted her into his arms as he ran after the rangers. They made it out.
"Tommy, stop!"
"No, the minute we do, Nathaniel will be born." Kimberly was hurting from the contractions. She gripped Tommy hard, causing him to groan to each contraction. Tommy rushed her to the hospital.
"Kim push!" It was early Saturday morning, nearly 2 am.
"It's too soon!" She screamed back at the doctor. Doctor Walker had rushed to the hospital to delivery the baby. She was urging Kimberly to push.
"We can't stop that now, Kim. Please, come on, girl. Push!" Kim shook her head.
"NO! It's tooo soon!"
"He is just over the safety zone, Kimberly! Babies born now have a great chance of survival. Now come on, and push!"
"It's too soon!"
"Trust me, this baby has to come out now or he will die!" Tommy was holding Kimberly up, with his arm around her, holding her hand.
"Push, Kim!" She turned her head to his chest.
"It's too soon!"
"PUSH!" Kim screamed out as she pushed. Tommy kissed her forehead. Kim sat back crying.
"Okay, okay. Prep for an emergency Caesarean.”
"What, wait a minute, what does that mean!"
"We need prep okay, this baby doesn't look like he wants come down now and he needs to come out now before he runs out of air."
"Tommy," Kim looked at him. She was breathing hard.
"Kim, one more round and I need you to give your all and push him out!" Kim nodded. "Now push!" Kim strained with all her might. Tommy pressed his lips to her head as she pushed. The baby came down. Doctor Walker rushed the baby to the table, not even giving Tommy the chance to cut the cords. Tommy saw his son, bloody, but very blue, and not as Trisha or any of his other children came out.
"What, what's going on?" Kim said weakly. Another doctor worked on cleaning her out. "He's not crying, Tommy. Why isn't he crying!"
"Doctor Walker..."
"Step back, Tommy." She was rubbing the baby up and down. "He's not breathing properly. He needs the NICU now."
"I want my son! I want to see my son!"
"Mrs. Oliver, calm down." Doctor Walker wrapped the baby. She brought him over for a second.
"Why isn't he crying!" Kim said as she tried to touch him.
"I have to get him to NICU now, he needs air."
"Will he okay!"
"The sooner I get him into NICU the better I'll feel."
"Please save my son!"
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Tommy rolled Kimberly down to the NICU section. Two nurses welcomed them into the room.
"Mrs. Oliver, he is a strong one," Doctor Walker said as she finished up the medication she gave the baby. The baby was placed in the incubator where he was kept warm, a few lines running in him, especially in his nose to allow him to breath right.
"How is he?"
"I just gave him a little theophylline to help with his breathing."
"Why are there so many lines?"
"He need help, Mrs. Oliver, with his breathing. This ventilator will ease that. He's a cute little one," Doctor Walker said rubbing the baby's back. "Only 1200 grams, so we have to work on getting his weight up."
"How big is that?" Tommy said as a nurse dressed him after she did Kimberly.
"About 4 pounds."
"He'll be fine in a few days right?" Kimberly said as she stood up and stuck her hands into the barrier.
"Yes. He will be needing some shots, especially antibiotics, and right now, we'll give him some IVs through his umbilical cord. But hopefully in a few days, we are going to need some breast milk from you to feed him." Tommy patted Kim's back as his other hand was inside touching his tiny son. "What are you two going to name him?"
"Nathaniel, Nathaniel Thomas Oliver." The nurse smiled at Tommy and wrote down her clipboard.
"What a wonderful name." Tommy kissed the side of Kim's head.
"He's going to be okay," Tommy said against Kim's head. Both of her hands rubbing up and down his body.
"He's soo tiny, Tommy." She looked up at him. "So tiny. I just want to hold him."
"We will, Beautiful. We will soon."
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Kimberly was breast feeding the baby when the grandparents arrived with the girls a few days later. They had came the day he was born, but with all the tubes running in and out, Kimberly and Tommy thought it would be best to give a couple more days before the children should see him again. The rangers and Hayley came with them as well.
"Oh, he's tiny!" Trisha yelled through the glass.
"Yes, he is." Tommy was sitting beside Kimberly, touching Nathaniel's face as he feed. He smiled and waved to them.
"Why, is he tiny, Papa?"
"He was a little early, princess."
"Why that bad?"
"Because, babies needs to stay in Mommies for a little longer than he did."
"How long?"
"Like 9 months."
"That is a lot."
"I know." Tommy's father put her down and motioned for Tommy to come out.
"How is he?"
"Doctors are happy to see him eating so soon."
"That's great," Hayley said.
"Yea."
"So, when do they think you can take him home?"
"In about another week or so."
"That's great, Dr. O."
"Yea. He's going to be okay."
Nathaniel was kept in the incubator for about another week. Kimberly carried him inside the house. It was Sunday, April 24th. Kimberly laid the baby to the crib with Tommy standing beside her. He put his arm around her shoulders.
"He's home. Our son is home."
"I love you." Kim looked up and wrapped her arms around Tommy's waist.
"I love you too." They kissed.
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Tommy came from his shower to find his wife and son, lying in bed. It was Tuesday morning. Tommy smiled. Kimberly in that zone between awake and sleeping, laid on her side, facing her son. Waking up to his son and wife was a magical feeling for Tommy. Kimberly hated traveling back and forth from the nursery to get the baby since he was brought home, but seriously she didn't want to leave him alone. Being premature, she always made sure his breathing was in order. It scared her when his breath would sometimes catch, but Tommy knew his son was strong and would be okay. Little Nathaniel would grasp his mother's finger as he slept on his side. Tommy wiped down his head and bent down to kiss both of them. Kimberly woke up as his lips touched her cheek. She moaned and sat up.
"I'll make breakfast."
"No, you just stay. I'll be fine."
"Trisha and.."
"Go, rest." Kim nodded and laid back down. Tommy went and woke up Trisha. He got her ready. Tommy checked on the other girls before carrying a sleepy Trisha downstairs to feed her. Sydney woke up and went straight for the bedroom.
"Mommy." Kimberly woke up to see her little head barely over the bed.
"Morning, baby."
"Mommy." Kimberly reached over and helped her into the bed. Sydney went to placed her face close to the baby, but Kimberly held her back.
"No, sweetie, not too close, ok. See baby Nathaniel?" Sydney smiled and nodded, as she pointed to the baby. Tommy came upstairs to find the twins still sleeping, but a missing Sydney.
"Syd!" Tommy rushed to find her. Tommy smiled as he stopped at his doorway to the bedroom to find all 3 of them sleeping. He went inside and kissed all 3 of them. "Love you."
"I love you too," Kimberly said. Tommy touched Nathaniel's cheek. The baby smiled in his sleep. Tommy kissed him again.
"He's soo beautiful, Kim."
"Of course he is. He's your son. Your son, Tommy."
"My son." They kissed on the lips.
"Have a good day at work."
"Thanks." Tommy kissed the side of her head and let her go back to sleep. Tommy went to say goodbye to the twins. Trisha was about to open the door to go outside, with her pink bookbag, purple lunch box and doll, as Tommy stood at the top of the stairs. Tommy smiled. Tommy put the gate across the steps as he went downstairs. Tommy stopped at the door and looked back.
"You coming, Daddy?"
"Of course princess." Tommy touched the top of her head. Trisha held her hand up for him to take it. Tommy took her hand and closed the door behind him, he was a truly blessed man.
Just 2 more chapters onto an amazing finale!