Six years flew by as Tommy and Kimberly attended college and finished within six months of each other, mainly due to the fact that Kim had to forego her first semester because she was still recovering from the disease that she had battled for more than a year. Tommy had his degree, surprisingly, in paleontology and Kim had a degree in childhood physical therapy. They were happy together, giving up the wild nights that most experienced during college for nights alone in the comfort of each other's embrace. Leukemia had left Kim weak for the first several months of their marriage, but her strength slowly came back and although she still tired out before he did, it was nothing like what it had been at first. That night, as she set the table for supper, neither of them knew just how much their lives were about to change, again.

"Kim!" Tommy called as he walked in the front door and placed his bag on the floor before loosening his tie and slipping off his shoes. He had finished his master's a few months earlier and was working on his doctorate. They had both been fortunate enough to get full-rides to college, but it was rough living with only one paycheck and he could tell that the stress got to Kim sometimes, but she never said anything about it. She knew that he would have a job soon enough, when the doctorate was finished. He still didn't feel like it was right and that was why he had started looking for a job again, just to help get them by until he could really provide for them.

"In the kitchen!" Kim yelled as he smiled and walked over to his second favorite room in their house. This house that they lived in they had built themselves over the past two years and although it was still a work in progress, it cost them a lot less to live here than renting a place and building at the same time. "How was it today?"

"I found a job that is willing to let me work on my doctorate and hire me before it is done," Tommy said as she turned around to face him and threw her arms around him in excitement. She knew that he had been trying to do this for a long time, but most jobs insisted that he have the doctorate before they would even look at him. "It's at Reefside High School."

"You're going to be a teacher?" Kim asked, incredulously, as Tommy barely nodded his head yes and she just shook her own. She couldn't really believe it, but it would make things easier on them and that was what he was trying to do right now and she knew that. They wanted to start a family, but he could not see them doing that if she was the only one working. "Well, I guess we will have to start working on getting your classroom together soon."

"But not before we celebrate our anniversary right," Tommy said as he kissed her on the cheek and then pulled out a box from his back pocket.

"We said no presents this year," Kim said as Tommy just shook his head. "Tommy…"

"It's not much and I saved up for it because I couldn't stand the thought of you getting nothing," Tommy said as Kim kissed him on the cheek and she then walked over to the cabinet and pulled out a small box of her own. "Hold on…"

"It didn't cost anything Tommy, so it's not really a present," Kim said as he looked over at her expectantly and she realized that he was not going to open his present until she had opened hers. She quickly undid the wrapping paper and smiled when she pulled out the charm bracelet, which had several charms filled in, but room for many more to be added. "Thank you...now it's your turn."
"It's really light," Tommy said as he tore open the paper and then opened the box to find a stick with a plus sign on it. He knew that it looked familiar, but he was not sure why. "Am I missing something?"

"It's a pregnancy test Tommy," Kim said as he looked over at her and he begged her to tell him that what he was thinking was not right. It was not that he didn't want kids, he just didn't want to get his hopes up. "I'm about eight weeks pregnant…according to the doctors."

"Kim…" Tommy whispered as he threw both of his arms around her and held her close. "When?"
"This morning, one of the other therapists made me go," Kim said, bashfully, as she looked down at the floor and then back up at him. "Dr. Calloway wants me to come back in next week so that he can do some more thorough tests and an ultrasound, but other than that he just gave me vitamins."

"Have you told anyone?" Tommy asked as Kim shook her head no. Her co-workers didn't really count, since she knew the only people that mattered to him were the people that they had once been rangers with and their parents.

"You should be the first one to know, it's only right," Kim said as he reached down between them and placed a hand on her stomach and just smiled. "Come on, I'm hungry."

"Am I going to have to hear that for the next eight months?" Tommy joked as Kim shook her head no.

"You were a little bit late tonight, so I'm just hungry, it's got nothing to do with the baby," Kim said as he picked up his plate and headed for the living room, with her right behind him.

"Well, I guess it was more than a fifty/fifty chance," Tommy said as Kim just shook her head. She had never been on birth control during their marriage and Tommy had only worn a condom every now and then, and they had only consciously started trying about three months ago. She didn't view that as luck, she viewed it as something else entirely.

"We may have just gotten lucky, Tommy. Let's face it, we've been married for six years and I've never been on birth control, odds are I would have gotten pregnant before now," Kim said as Tommy just looked over at her.

"So it could be luck either way Kim, but it's ours and that's all that I care about," Tommy said as she leaned over to give him a hug and then felt him kiss her on the forehead. "When do you think we should tell our parents?"

"They're coming up tomorrow evening, we can just tell them about all of it then. There's no use in calling them tonight just to have to see them tomorrow," Kim said as Tommy nodded. He was not sure what she was going to be up to tonight, considering what this day must have taken out of her. Admittedly, he was tired, but he knew that it did not truly compare to what she was feeling. She kept up a pretty solid front in front of him, but he knew that emotional days like today took more out of her than any others. "I'm all right, Tommy."

"I know, but I worry about you anyway," Tommy said as Kim just shook her head and reached over him for the remote. They both were tired from their days and an evening in front of the television in peace was what they most needed. That, however, was not what they were going to get as five minutes into CSI both of their cell phones rang simultaneously.

"Hello?" Kim said picking her phone up off the table and waiting for the other person to respond.

"I got her!" Jason yelled as Kim looked over at Tommy. That did not sound good and she could not help but wonder why Jason was yelling to other people that he was on the phone with her. "Put me on speaker phone, we need to talk to the both of you."
"Who is we?" Kim asked as she did as he asked and Tommy's phone stopped ringing.

"Me, Kat, Billy, Trini, Aisha, Rocky, Adam, Tanya, Zack, basically any of the rangers that you ever worked with," Jason said as Kim looked over at Tommy who closed his eyes and placed his plate on the coffee table along with hers. Neither of them liked the way this sounded and they both knew what might come next.

"Fire away, Jase," Tommy said as he leaned his head back against the couch and closed his eyes.

"We have a problem, history is about to repeat itself," Jason said as Tommy barely opened his eyes and looked over at Kim who was shaking her head in denial. This could not be happening now, not when they were about to start a family.

"What history is about to repeat itself?" Tommy asked as Kim stood and walked to the back portion of the room, so that she could stare out into the woods. She knew what was coming next and she knew what they were about to ask of Tommy. That was the only reason that they were calling here tonight, on their anniversary.

"The way we became rangers is about to repeat itself, maybe not exactly, but pretty damn close," Billy said as Tommy did a double take, confused that Billy had just sworn. "Zordon mentioned it to me years ago and I never really gave it a second thought until a couple of months ago when we came up to Reefside to work on the teleportation base in your basement. The mentor, he said, would be a former ranger. The rangers would be teenagers, just like us, pulled into it not by their own choosing, but by mere coincidence. The monster will have the same obsession with Earth that Rita and Zedd did, the powers will be similar, they'll be dinosaur based. Tommy, we think that it's going to be you and we think that it is going to happen very soon."

"What would possibly make you think that?" Tommy asked as Kim looked back at him and he gave her a sympathetic glance as she sat down in one of the chairs that faced the outdoors.

"Kim wouldn't by any chance be pregnant would she?" Billy asked as they heard something being dropped and Tommy swearing as he jumped up to try to wipe the water off of him before he was thoroughly soaked. As their eyes met she barely nodded, telling him to go on and ask what he needed to know, because she honestly didn't trust her mouth to say those words.

"How did you know?" Tommy asked as Billy just shook his head. That had been the one thing that they had hoped not to hear, because it sealed their fate, it tied them to these new rangers, whoever they might be and put them in a world of danger.

"We went digging around the Command Center today, trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle, that was when we discovered the actual account that Zordon gave, saved to the main platform. It hadn't crossed my mind that I might have forgotten something, but obviously, I had and obviously it was really important," Billy said as Tommy just hung his head and covered his eyes. He now had no doubt that this night would end in them just going to bed, instead of any sort of romantic interlude. Neither of them held back from the other, but on nights like this, he knew better than to try.

"Shit," Tommy swore under his breath as he just shook his head. "Are you sure about this?"

"Yeah, I can't tell you when or even how, but I can tell you it will be soon," Billy said as Tommy nodded and willed himself to look over at Kim, who had silent tears streaming down her face. He hated that this was happening to them, he hated that she had just had one more thing placed on her shoulders, he hated that he couldn't make this stop. He knew she understood but for once that was not good enough, for once he wanted her to tell him that he couldn't do this, but he knew she wouldn't. He knew that she would be there beside him, when they started taking care of the next set of rangers. "I'm going to let you go and by the way, happy anniversary."

"Thanks," Tommy said hanging up as he stood and walked over to Kimberly and wrapped his arms around her as the sobs finally broke loose and she cried on his shoulder.

"This isn't fair, Tommy," Kim cried as he gently stroked her back and just held onto her tight. There was nothing more that he could to do make her feel better about this, but it would be just fine. They would make it through this, they had to.

"I know, but we'll be fine, I promise," Tommy said as he kissed her on the cheek and slowly pulled back from her, giving her plenty of time to cling to him if she needed it. "Come on, let's go to bed and pretend this never happened."
"I'm really tired," Kim whispered as he just nodded and smiled that smile of his that said he already knew that.

"I didn't say let's go have sex, you need some rest baby and so do I," Tommy said as he picked her up and carried her down the hall to their bedroom. One day it would be upstairs, but for right now, it was situated at the back corner of the house, next to a small room, that would soon become a nursery. "Happy anniversary, Kim, I hope that it wasn't too bad."

"It was fine Tommy," Kim said as she watched him strip down to his boxers as she put on a silk nightgown and climbed into bed next to him. "I think we got a pretty good present for it."

"Yeah, so do I," Tommy whispered as he placed his arms around her and settled his hands on her stomach as she snuggled against him. Although it was not what they had expected, it was a very normal day for the Oliver's. Sadly, they had both hoped that this sort of 'normal' day would never return.