Disclaimer: Don't own "My Hero is You" by Hayden Panettiere

A week passed since Kira got out of the hospital and somewhere in there Tommy's birthday came and went without her planned performance as she had not been cleared to perform yet. She sighed and decided to go the 'better late than never' route and put it in her next set.

The day came and Kira's stomach was tied in knots, she hadn't been so nervous about debuting a new song in years. She switched from the electric guitar she had used on her last song to the acoustic one she would use in this piece.

"Before I start my new piece I want to preface it with a message. As a lot of you know my life has gone through a lot of turbulence and… through all of that there has been one person who has always been there to remind me that I wasn't alone, that someone cared about me. He has been like a father and I don't even want to imagine what would have become of me without him in my life. A lot of you know him, some of you call him Dr. Oliver, others Dr. O, but to me he's family so I often call him Tommy. I wrote this song with the intention of performing it on his birthday as my gift, but I was sick so I hope you don't mind it's late."

She could hear her audience laugh slightly at that statement and noticed the shocked and confused look on Tommy's face, he had been clueless about this.

"So this is my new song, My Hero is You,"

The intro started slow with mostly just the acoustic guitar.

Mmmm, yeah

You know I try to be
all that I can
but there's a part of me
I still don't understand

The audience just listened and Tommy could tell this wasn't like anything she had wrote in the past, it came from a different place than those songs.

Why do I only see
what I don't have
when my reality
its things are not that bad

Your faith has shown me that

The song built quickly into the chorus

When my world goes crazy
you won't let go
when the ground gets shaky
you give me hope
when I try to push you away
you never move, yeah

Now when I start doubting
you help me see
there's a strength and a mind and a power in me
oh believe and there ain't nothing I can't do
my hero is you, yeah
my hero is you.

Hayley put her hand on Tommy's arm as the song continued through the chorus. She could see everything coming together in Tommy's mind.

I never saw the way
you sacrificed
who knew the price you paid
how can I make it right?
I know I've got to try

When my world goes crazy
you won't let go
when the ground gets shaky you give me hope
when I try to push you away
you never move

Now when I start doubting
you help me see
there's a strength and a mind and a power in me
you believe and there ain't nothing I can't do.
My hero is you, yeah

And I hope that you can see
you're everything that I wanna be

Those words hit Tommy like a freight train, he had never really considered what he did as being that big a deal to the rangers, but apparently they saw it otherwise. Kira saw it otherwise because here she was professing it for others to hear.

When my world goes crazy
you won't let go
when the ground gets shaky you give me hope
when I try to push you away
you never move

Now when I start doubting
You help me see
There's a strength, and a mind, and a power in me
Oh believe me there ain't nothing I can't do
My hero is you, yeah,

My hero is you

My hero is you

After the song Kira stepped off stage and walked over to hug him.

"Thank you, for everything." She said.

"I'll always be here for you." He promised.

After the concert the final documents when through that made it so, legally, Tommy was her father. Sure they had agreed that she would never call him 'dad' that just seemed a little too weird, but she had admitted something that took him aback. She had told him that, if she were younger she would have happily changed her last name, dropped her deadbeat father's surname to take Oliver in its place. He had told her from the beginning she could keep her name as it was as did the judge that signed the final paperwork and as far as he knew she had because he had said it was completely up to her what she did with her name because she was the one to have to live with it.

When they got home that evening he looked over the paperwork and gasped in shock, she had done something he never dreamed of, in the places where she was to write out what she wanted her legal name to be she had written it out "Kira Elizabeth Ford-Oliver" she hadn't dropped the Ford name because she was locally famous under that name but she had taken a compromise that acknowledged the huge change in her life. He sat there looking at the handwriting he had come to know so well as it spelled out the last thing he had dreamed would happen. He let a sigh escape as the gravity of this hit him. Their lives would never be the same, but maybe that wasn't a bad thing, change was good. He had heard her mention it and thought it was just a consideration so he really didn't look at how she put her name when he had signed his own to the documents, at her age he figured what she wanted her name to be was her decision and she was old enough to make an informed decision on the situation.

She came downstairs and noticed the shocked look on his face.

"You noticed didn't you?" she asked

"Yeah… and… and I'm flattered but Kira… you didn't have to do this."

"I know… but Tommy think about it, my father, or excuse me the man that should have been my father, means nothing to me… hasn't in a very long time… you've been more of a father than he ever was. Where has he been my whole life… I don't know… and to be honest at this point I really don't care… I have a father that loves me… that is here for me and that is why I did what I did. Had I not become famous locally I probably would have dropped his last name all together."

Tommy hugged her as he had no words to express what he was feeling, what she had said hit him harder than he ever imagined it would, they might not have a lot but they were family and that was all that mattered.

The End