Authors Note: This is the third part in my Strongest Weakness series. The song I used in this part is "I'll Be" by Reba Macintyre. I hope you enjoy it and to the girl in the red jacket now I have two parts up on you! :)

Tommy quickly got in his black Honda and threw the few bags of groceries he had just gotten in the seat next to him. He first looked in his rear view mirror and sighed in relief when he saw that his daughter was still fast a sleep in her car seat. He buckled his safety belt and smiled as the car roared to life. He pulled out of the parking space and began to wonder to the exit of the market not noticing the pair of brown eyes watching him from a blue car as he drove a way. He pulled off onto the main road and sped up as he thought 'Ok...I went to the market to pick up a few things, went to the cleaners, picked up a new shower curtain, picked up my car obviously, paid for Melissa's doctor bill, called her pre school teacher back, got her cold medicine from the doctor, paid the babysitter for looking after her Friday night, picked up her blanket that Josie sewed back together, and.... ' His thought trailed off as he sort a smiled 'God who would have ever thought that I Tommy Oliver would have a daughter? It's been a couple of very interesting years I can say that much.' He thought as the traffic got heavy and he pulled to a stop behind a red mustang.

He rolled his neck and clenched the steering wheel tightly when he heard his neck muscles pop. Sighing heavily to himself he grimly looked out his window into the cloudy sky as he mind went back over the past four years.

It had all started with the wedding that had destroyed him completely. Kimberly Hart had held his heart for the longest time and then crushed it and not even known it. He meant what he had thought that day he would all ways love her. If she said Tommy I want you back then he would still go running back to her. Tommy ran a unconscious hand threw his long brown locks and sighed heavily to himself as he thought of Katie.

Katie had been his girl friend before he had left LA for Angel Grove. She was so in love with him from the first time he had met her in seventh grade. When he had left for Angel Grove they had ended it both agreeing that a long distance relationship was going to be to hard on the both of them. He smiled as he remembered all the wild nights he and Katie had together in the past. 'Yea we did have fun that's for sure but there was only one thing wrong I didn't love her like she loved me.' Tommy laid back against the seat at this thought. It was true he had not loved Katie sure he had loved her but he would not have died for her like he would have done for Kim. Sure back then he had thought he would do anything for her but he was only fooling himself.

Katie and he were drug partners if she wanted drugs he would get them for her and if he wanted them then she would get them for him. He had loved to get stoned with her because when she got stoned she made him forget about everything but her. They had kept in contact over the years he was in Angel Grove and he even told her about Kim. She acted as though she was happy for him but he knew she was heart broken. She was the one that had gotten the drugs for Tommy the night he had gotten stoned in Angel Grove. She had driven five hours from LA to Angel Grove just to bring him some drugs that night then she had driven the whole way back. She had claimed that she was in town but he new better. Katie loved him and that is why she had done it.

It was not surprising that when he had shown up on her doorstep four years ago she had welcomed him in with open arms. They had lost contact with each other after the night she supplied him with drugs in Angel Grove and it was Tommy's doings that they did. He seemly had quit calling her and writing her. Whenever she had written him or called him he acted as if he had dropped off the face of the earth. He had known that it hurt Katie but he had not known how much it had hurt her until Kim had done it to him. The night he had shown up at her apartment he had told her all about the break up and about his vanishing act. He smiled as he remembered Katie taking him in her arms and holding him as he had cried. He had eventually fallen a sleep in her arms as she rocked him and said words of comfort.

The next day he had learned that Katie's parents had died in a car accident one-year prier and that is why she was living in an apartment by herself. He had immediately felt guilty for not being there for her when it happened but she just smiled her heart-warming smile and told him to forget about it. She had welcomed him into her home and not thought twice about it. He had got a local job working on and repairing cars. He was good at it and it have him a great stress reliever. At night when he left work he would go home to Katie and the more he did this the more he liked it. He had liked walking in the apartment knowing she was off work and all ready there waiting for him to get home so they could go out or just watch TV together. He liked the feeling it gave him and for a short while he could forget about Kim and her new husband.

He had gotten back on the drug routine all most immediately after arriving in LA. He knew it was wrong but he had not cared he no longer had anything to stay clean for so he didn't. Katie and he got stoned all most every night and some nights that would even invite people over to get high with them. He had felt like he was teenager just having fun again. However the fun was shattered one night when Katie and he had made the biggest mistake they ever made.

It had started out like any other night they had both took two hits of cocaine. They had started to talk and pick at each other in a stoned stutter. Tommy had knocked over his cup of coke on the kitchen counter when he had busted into laughter over something Katie had said. He had started to clean it up when Katie started to help him both of them still chuckling. As if in slow motion and really before either one could stop themselves they kissed each other. When there lips met there passion and sexual tension had exploded for each other. Before he knew what was really happening he had her on the kitchen table with her skirt up and her panties off. It had been a moment of the purist insanity but for that moment of insanity they had paid dearly.

They had written that night off as a fluke a never happened thing that is until he came home one evening and found Katie sitting on the couch staring off into space lost. Becoming worried he had sat down beside her and coxed her into telling him what was wrong. Nothing could have prepared him for what she said next she was pregnant with his child.

Katie was devastated she was doing so well for herself and slowly coming into her own. This was a life curve ball that she was totally unprepared for. They had spent the night talking and discussing the issue and in the end they had both decided to keep it.

The next months had been hard on Tommy he had to hold down a job and take care of Katie at the same time. He found himself some days rushing home from work early because Katie had a pain in her stomach. She had stopped using drugs cold turkey when she found out that she was going to have a baby and pressured Tommy to do the same all thought he had not stopped he had let up to maybe a joint here or a hit there occasionally. They both were preparing to be parents a life step that they both were terrified off.

Then it happened one day while at work Tommy had received a phone call from the hospital, it was Katie and she had gotten mugged and beaten while on her way home from the market and they were going to have to get the baby out or it would die. He had immediately hung the phone up and rushed out of work. He ran every stop light until he reach Las Angeles City Wide Hospital. Katie was in bad shape and in emergency labor when he got there. He had taken a seat in the waiting room and prayed for a miracle.

Then the bad news had came Katie had died after giving her baby life. It was a healthy vibrant baby girl that now was motherless just like he was. He had cried when he had gotten to hold her for the first time. He had named her Melissa Rose Oliver after his mother that had left him when he was only ten.

Tommy smiled slightly and quickly whipped away the stray tears as he pulled into his apartment building parking lot. It had been three years sine Katie had died and he still felt like he had lost the best friend he could ever hoped for. When she died he had tried to kick the drug habit but it was hard and in the end he had not succeeded. His boss at the garage where he worked had even tried to help him but it had been no use. Then a little over three months ago Katie's sister June had gotten him enrolled in Clear Creek Counseling Center for drug addicts. At first he had refused to go but all it took was his daughters sad eyes when he had not been at her pre school residual because he was high. That was all it took he had stopped cold turkey and now went to meetings every Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday. It had taken a toll on him to quit cold turkey and he felt and looked like crap most of the time but at least he would not miss his daughter's life because of the drugs.

Tommy quietly got out of the drivers side grabbing the bags of groceries as he went and opened the back car door. He softly and gently picked Melissa up out of her car seat and his heart melted as she mumbled "Daddy." Then wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder. Tommy whipped a curly blonde hair out of her chubby face and kissed her forehead as he closed the door and headed up the stairs to his apartment not noticing the brown eyes watching him from a blue BMW as he went.