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A/N: This is my first PR fanfic. So please be kind. I just had some ideas and have been playing around with them and thought why not write 'em out. So if you guys like it so far I'll be glad to write more because I have some ideas, and if you guys don't like it I won't cont. But I hope you guys enjoy it a little. Let me know! :-D Thanks and I tried to fix all the grammar and spelling mistakes! Hehe And a special thanks to everyone at PRIU2 for helping me out and reading my story!! Thanks guys you rock!! J now on with story… I hope you enjoy! J
Story: Just a Little Bit of Fate
Chapter 1: I Put Your Picture Away
Pairing: Tommy/Kimberly
Season(s): Current Dino Thunder as well as mentions from seasons 1-3 and both movies. (I haven't really seen much of the Dino Thunder season so bare with me on it.)
"… and that's why they call it the blues, time on your hands could be time spent with you, laughing like children, living like lovers, rollin' like thunder under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues…." Elton John bellowed from the stereo in the room. A 5 foot 10 inch guy walked into the room to see a petite girl sitting on the couch typing on her computer.
"So is that I guess that really is why they call it the blues," he said to her. She looked up at him; a strand of blonde highlighted hair fell away from her light brown hair falling to her eyes.
She shrugged, and simple stated, "I guess that's why," with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Damn Kim why don't you just call him up it has been what like 8 years?" the boy asked hitting the stop button on the stereo.
"9 and 1/2," she replied.
"I'm sure his over it by now."
"You don't understand," she said staring at her computer screen.
"Sure I do Kimberly, very well I might add, but you were kids, now you are both adults," he laughed, "we kinda," he teased her.
She hit in lightly in the chest, he yelped, "ouch!"
"Oh stop that didn't hurt," she countered.
"Yeah, like that bruise on my arm didn't hurt either," he said raising an eyebrow.
Some times Kimberly Hart didn't realize her own strength.
She sighed, "You weren't there Der," she said to him.
"No I wasn't, but you know from what I hear, he still loves you, and who could blame him, you're perfect."
She looked at her friend, her roommate, in shock, "Perfect, no I am far from it."
"No you're not," he replied to her, "you are completely perfect, I wish I could be even a little like you. You just want everyone to be happy even if it means you aren't. I can't image to be like that," he said smiling at her. "And he knows it too, you just need to fix it now..." he looked down at her, "it's time."
"No it's not, he moved on, and so have I," she said getting up.
"Um Kim, I don't think that writing email that you don't send to someone who you haven't talked to in years is "moving on", it's not really moving anything." He said thinking about it.
"I'm tired I'm going to bed," said shutting down her laptop. "goodnight." She said as she reached down and hugged her friend Derek, he kissed her on the cheek.
"Goodnight sweetie, we'll just talk about this tomorrow," he winked at her.
She let out a deep breath, "I can't wait she said as she rolled her eyes."
Kimberly Hart knew her friend Derek was right, he had come to know her better then anyone, well almost anyone, no one knew her better then him, he knew her inside and out, he was a part of her, whether or not she was still a part of him. But something inside her always knew that she belonged with Tommy Oliver, from the first moment she saw him at the Juice Bar getting ready to fight with Jason to that sad goodbye said at the command center and by the lake. And she had to send him that stupid letter, saying how she found someone else, which was totally bull. She thought he found someone else, Kat, she saw the way she looked at him how she touched him. And Kim could be states and miles away dealing with the fact that they were so close together and Kat was the new pink ranger. Her replacement, she wasn't mad at Kat, Kat was a good person beautiful and fun. But Kat had in fact taken over Kimberly's place, to help the rangers and to help Kimberly follow her dreams. But in return Kimberly was left facing the fact that her friends and former teammates had a new pink ranger, and Kimberly was feeling a little hurt. She wanted what was best for everyone and making Tommy have a long distance relationship with her wasn't fair to him. After all Tommy was still a guy and could only resist Kat for so long. So she broke it off, in a letter, she knew that if she had done it in person or even on the phone Tommy would know that she was lying and she needed to let him go and be free and experience new things, it was so hard to be away from him but he need to concentrate on being a power ranger and school and she need to focus on her gymnastics and her thoughts of him were getting in her way. So after much bribing and enlisting the help of her friend Derek, who felt it was a bad idea to send the letter, they wrote it and sent it. After time had past Jason and Kimberly went to surprise the group, but were captured by Divatox while scuba-diving. She later found out that Tommy had looked completely crushed when he found out that she had been kidnapped, the information poured in form Aisha who hear it from Adam who saw and heard it first hand. The group shook it off because all knew that it was a very touchy topic with Tommy no matter how much he tried to deny it. She remember being evil and Tommy taking off him helmet, tell her that it was him to look at him and she did, and she look in his eyes and for a second she felt like she was his again and she started to remember, then she hear that voice, "yes, Kimberly, we're your friends." –Kat, and she remember the letter and hearing about how they seemed to be getting closer together now, and everything turned evil again. If she couldn't be with Tommy, evil was ok with her as it seem to consume her body. Until the Lerigot and his wife set her free from the spell she couldn't really grab sense of any of it, like an out of body experience. She had helped Tommy save Jason and touching him again gave her strength and power and again she though it would be ok for them as he looked at her and said her name and she was flooded with hope. They saved Jason together, and saved the others, like old times, and the battle was over and that was that, no one mentioned the letter and Tommy seem to keep his distance, at the competition after the boys had won, Tommy ran over and hugged Kat, and once again Kimberly's hope had been shattered. And that was that. They didn't talk much after that, Kimberly was filled in by Jason who would call her at least 3 times a week, and a year or so ago told her that he went with Tommy on a red ranger mission, and how Tommy cut his long locks and traded them in for spikes. Kimberly couldn't believe it his hair had been a trademark. He loved his hair, she loved his hair, and it was longer then hers even, now that she thought about it. To cut boggled her mind and then she simply stated that he had grown up and wasn't a teenager any longer. She remembered how Tommy couldn't make it to Trini's funeral, how devastated she was that he couldn't be there. But life went on, and with Derek's help he helped her get over one of her best friends death.
Derek was her best friend, someone she could trust, he was always honest with her, and they didn't have any romantic ties, because Derek was gay. But it was ok because he was there for her. And he loved her. And she loved him. They were like brother and sister, or like sister and sister she thought and kinda giggled. As she slipped on her pink shorts and pink tank top and crawled into bed. And closed her eyes, a few minutes later Derek walked into the room and got into bed next to Kimberly, there apartment was small and boxes were filled in Derek's room because they were repainting and Derek's mother decided to do some spring cleaning and sent all of his boxes from home to here. So Derek and Kimberly slept in bed together, not a big deal, it was nice having someone sleep next to, and cuddle with, sometimes if she wished real hard she could almost image it to be Tommy sleeping next to her, Tommy holding her, and then it was perfect. She finally heard Derek drift to sleep and quietly pulled out the drawer of the night stand next to her bed and looked at a picture of her and Tommy from the day they went on the date in the park, and were attacked by the purse monster and lipstick monster, Bulk and Skull had been passing by trying to find the power rangers and Kimberly ask if they wouldn't mind taking a picture of them, and some fussing they did, but the picture turned out great, Kimberly loved it, she got a double printed and put them in nice little picture frames that were pink green and white and said Tommy & Kimberly together forever. She had given it to him as an early part of his Christmas present. A tear fell from her eye as she remembered how surprised he look when he unwrapped it, and he told her that they would be together forever because he loved her more and more each day and no matter what happened they would get through it together. Yeah, easy to say when you 16 and you have the same classes and you share the same secret, but once Kimberly lost her powers and move it changed. The Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock song 'Picture' floated into her head, "I put your picture away, I wonder where you've been, I can't look at you while I'm laying next to him… I've thought about you for a long time. I can't seem to get you off my mind. I can't understand why we're living life this way…" She ran her fingers across the glass picture frame before slipping it back into the dresser drawer and closing it... Why did she still love him so much? Couldn't she just let go already? She thought drifting to sleep.
Kimberly was sound asleep when she felt a nudging in her back and hear a ring that sounded like her old communicator. "Kim, get you phone," Derek sighed hitting her in the back.
"Alright, alright already, it's just Jason," she said to him as she reached for her cell phone.
"Jase it's too early!" she said into the phone. There was silence. "Jase you there?" she said again becoming more awake, "Jason I know your there answer me this isn't funny," she said as she could hear breathing on the other end. She heard a sudden click, and the line went dead. "What is going on?" she asked herself.
"What did he want?" Derek asked.
"I don't know," she paused, "it was weird."
"What was?" he said opening his eyes too look at her.
She looked down at him, "He never answered me and just hung up."
"Weird," he said mocking her.
"Shut up," she pushed him, and he rolled back over onto his side. She found his name in her cell phone again and called his house. His machine picked up, "This is Jason, I can't come to the phone at the moment, because I am OUT OF TOWN in sunny Reefside, leave a message or if you're one of the lucky people who know my cell phone call me on it. Later. BEEP" "Jase, it's Kim I'm just trying to find you, you just called me like 2 minutes ago, oh well I'll try your cell phone. Bye." Kim hung up. "Reefside," Kimberly said out loud.
"Reefside? Huh?" Derek ask as he drifted back to sleep.
"Reefside who is in Reefside?" she asked herself as she remembered Jason talk to her about someone in Reefside, suddenly it clicked. "OMG!" she screeched as she covered her mouth with her hand.
"WHAT?!" Derek asked jumping up and looking at her.
"Reefside!"
"Why do you keep saying that?!" he grumbled. She grabbed his shoulders.
"Tommy," she said looking at him, "Tommy."
"Loverboy Tommy?"
Kimberly sighed, "Yes, Tommy is in Reefside."
"And…" Derek asked not quite sure where she was going with all of this.
"And… Jason is in Reefside."
"And…?"
"And I just go a call in the middle of the night from Jason's cell phone and Jason didn't answer me."
Derek looked at her still confused as she searched for Jason's cell phone number and clicked send. It rang 3 times before it was picked up. "Hello?" the voice said into the phone.
"Hey Jase?" Kimberly asked as she the voice didn't sound like Jason at all it sounded like, "Tommy?" she asked, before the phone clicked off again, she looked at it, Derek looked at her.
"What happened?" he asked her.
"It was Tommy," she said looking at the phone.
"Who was that?" Jason asked as he dried his hair with the towel. Tommy just stared at the phone, "Bro, who was it?" he asked looking confused. Tommy looked up at him, and said almost in a whisper, "Kimberly."
Jason sighed, "Did you hang up on her?" he asked. Tommy just looked at him. "I'll take that as a yes," Jason said and he grabbed his phone and hit the outgoing calls to find Kim's name surprisingly it was on top, Jason looked at Tommy, "man did you can her first?" He nodded yes, Jason let out a little chuckle. "Man, you are too much; you probably got the girl scared to death."
"She knew it was me," Tommy said staring at the table.
"Huh?"
"When I picked up she asked if it was you, and I froze and then she asked if it was me, and I panicked and hung up." Jason laughed.
"Man its ok; you probably scared her calling her at 5:30 in the morning. It's just Kim," he laughed. As he clicked the redial button on his cell phone, it rang once and was picked up.
"JASON?" Kimberly's panicked voice came over the phone.
"Hey sunshine," he said back to her. He could hear her sigh loudly.
"Jason are you ok?" she asked in a panic he could almost see her eye wide as her hand shook.
"Yeah I'm fine, sorry about that."
"I was nervous when you called and I didn't hear anything from you," she said.
"Yeah that was," he looked over at Tommy, Tommy gave him a please-don't-tell-her-it-was-me kind of look, "I must have sat on my phone or something.
"Yeah right, how bout when I called you back?" she asked no seeming to believe it was her.
"Oh well I couldn't hear you we must have had a bad connection," he lied, and almost started laughing because it sounded so far fetched looking at Tommy.
"Oh right," Kim said, "You're such a bad liar, but don't worry I'll find out what you are up too mister."
"I'm scured Kim," he teased.
"Well if you're fine then I guess I will talk to you later," she said.
"Ok bye Kim I'll call you later today," he said to her.
"Oh and Jase," she started.
"Huh?"
"Have fun in Reefside," she said with a little bit of sass into the phone.
"Kim—," Jason started.
"Bye Jase," she said as she hung up the phone.
Jason looked at Tommy, and Tommy back at him, "we're in trouble man," he said, "She knows I'm with you," he said kind of smiling. Tommy was making Jason's plan work better then Jason even expected. Tommy put his face in his hands.
Kim hung up the phone with a smile on her face. She poked at Derek. "What?" he groaned.
"Come on were going to Reefside," She smiled, and jumped off the bed and into the other room and got online.
