Disclaimer: I do not own any of these power rangers. Kristina is my
character; please don't use her without my permission. I do not own the
song 'Vehicles shock me' or James Marsters.
A new home, a new life, And all because of a boy named Tommy
Tommy Oliver looked around the place. "I'm sure she'll love this." He told the man in front of him.
"Are you sure?" The man said in a deep voice.
"Yes Mr. Harris. I'm sure. She was looking at this house the other day." Tommy said. He handed the man an envelope.
"I hope your right Mr. Oliver." Mr. Harris took the envelope, handed Tommy some keys and left.
Tommy looked around the house. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a number. Tommy picked up the phone and dialed the number on the paper. "Billy? Its Tommy, I'm at the house. Yeah the one I was telling you about. Look do you think you could come help me get it ready for her? Really? Thanks. I'll see you in 20." Tommy walked out to his red truck. He grabbed some paint and went into the house again.
Tommy looked at the walls and started painting them white. A few hours later Billy, Adam and Rocky showed up. Billy threw Tommy a towel.
"Hey it looks great in here." Rocky said as he tripped over Tommy's paint can. He was lying in a puddle of white paint. "Sorry Tommy. I'll get you a new can."
Tommy and the others laughed. "That's to funny." Adam said picking up a paintbrush. "So what time are you bringing Kristina around?" Adam asked painting a section of the wall.
"I was planning on bringing her over around dinner. She'll love this house. I know she will." Tommy said painting.
"If not I'm sure we could take it off your hands." Rocky joked. A few hours later the rooms were painted and the guys were lying on the floor out of breath. Tommy opened his eyes. "It's done. Okay now you guys can help me get some furniture in here." Tommy said jumping up to his feet
Rocky groaned.
Billy stood up. "Okay." They started out to the truck and wheeled in some stuff.
A few hours later they were set. The guys said their goodbyes. Tommy picked up the phone and dialed Kristina's phone number. He heard her depressed voice answer the line and a smiled crossed his face. "Kristina, its Tommy. I've got something I want to show you." He said
"Okay. Can you come pick me up?" she asked gently.
"Yeah. I'll be there in like a half hour or so. I've got to stop at my house and take a shower first." He said.
"Okay. See you then." Kristina replied and hung up the phone. She threw a shoe at the wall; she could hear her room mate Kimberly making love with Jason in the next room.
Tommy drove to his place and took a quick shower then grabbed the leashes for three dogs and raced to his back yard. He clipped them onto three large dogs. One was a blonde Lab, another was a rottie, and the other was a great dame. He took them to his truck and drove them to the house he had bought for Kristina.
Kristina looked in the mirror. "What does Tommy want with me?" she wondered. She brushed her hair out and put on a little cover up. "I wish Zack was still here, still alive." She whispered softly. Kristina heard Tommy's truck pull into the driveway. She decided to meet him instead of letting him hear Jason and Kimberly going at it in their room.
"Hey there" Tommy said opening the door for Kristina.
"Hi Tommy." She said softly. "So what is that you wanted to show me?" Kristina asked getting into Tommy's red truck.
"You'll see." Tommy said smiling.
They pulled into the drive way and Kristina looked at the house in front of her. She gasped. "Tommy, what are we doing here?" she asked
"This is for you." He said. Tommy ran around the truck and opened the door for Kristina. "I wanted to buy you something that you would never forget." He took Kristina by the hand and led her towards the house.
"Tommy, why did you do this?" she asked following him into the house. "I wanted to." He said. Tommy looked into Kristina's eyes and smiled. "I love you. I know this is really sudden but I do."
"I think I'm in love with you too." She said.
Tommy leaned down to kiss Kristina, for once she didn't pull away from him. They shared the kiss then Tommy took Kristina to see the dogs. After a little while they went inside.
"Tommy this place is amazing." Kristina said to Tommy. She looked at him and hugged him again and again. "Thank you so much." She kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm glad that you like it." Tommy said.
Later they got some blankets and started a fire. They were cuddled up on the floor talking. Kristina looked up at Tommy. "This is a really big house for one person." She said
"Yeah I guess it is." Tommy replied
"I'll be all alone in here." She looked around.
"You can call me any time." He whispered into her ear.
"Yeah I know. But I was thinking that you could stay here. I mean if you want to." Kristina leaned on him and looked him in the eyes
"You mean like live with you?" Tommy asked
"Yeah, that's what I mean." She said brushing his long hair from his eyes.
"I'd like that." He smiled at her. "I'd like that a lot."
"Yeah." She smiled down at him. For a second they could just look at each other. Then Kristina leaned down and kissed Tommy on the lips. His hand slid around her. His fingers were in Kristina's black hair.
Kristina leaned her head onto his chest again. She ran her fingertips along Tommy's hand. She finally felt peaceful since Zack's death.
They fell asleep together. That night Kristina was having a terrible nightmare. Tommy felt her struggling against her fear. He woke up and tried to wake Kristina up. "Come on your having a nightmare" he said.
Kristina woke up in a sweat. "Tommy, oh god." She said out of breath.
Tommy put his arms around her. "Its okay, I've got you." Tommy said rubbing her back.
"God, Tommy, I saw it again." She said crying on his chest. "Everything was the same and I still couldn't save him."
"It's going to be okay Kristina," he said. He kissed the top of her head. "I promise." He whispered.
Kristina fell back asleep on Tommy. He dosed off finally. In the morning Kristina woke up. Tommy was already awake. He was in the kitchen cooking up something for breakfast. Kristina came around the corner and smiled at Tommy.
"It smells really good in here. I never knew you could cook." Kristina said poring them some OJ. She put her arms around him. "Thank you." She whispered into his ear.
"For what?" he asked
"Last night. You didn't have to sit there with me the whole time." She said
"I wanted to. You needed me. I wanted to hold you." Tommy said. He turned around so he could look right at her. "Kristina, please don't fall in love with me just because Zack is dead. I want to be sure that you're falling in love with me because you love me." Tommy said. He touched her cheek.
"I love you." Kristina said softly.
Tommy smiled and kissed her softly. "I know."
"I'll be back. I'm gonna go change into something else." She said.
"Okay." Tommy replied. He went back to finishing the breakfast. His communicator went off. "Tommy here. What's up Zordon?"
"New trouble, the other rangers need you in the park." Zordon said.
"Alright Zordon. I'll be right there." He looked around. "Zeo ranger 5 red!" Tommy stood in the kitchen in his red Zeo ranger costume he looked down the hallway. "I sure hope that Kristina doesn't notice I'm gone" he teleported to the park to help the rangers.
Kristina came out in a black tank top and jeans. "Tommy? Where did he go?" Kristina sat on the floor. About an hour later Tommy teleported into the living room in his ranger costume. Kristina stood up and looked at him. She growled and left. She walked down the stairs out into the grass; it was soft under her feet. She looked around the grassy back yard. "Why would he go out there and not tell me?" Kristina asked no one in particular.
Kristina could hear footsteps behind her. She didn't bother to look; she just sat down and placed her head in her hands.
Tommy leaned down and sat next to Kristina. "I didn't mean to run off."
"You scared me. Last time someone ran off on me like that he ended up dead." Kristina said looking up. "And if you would have been hurt out there, I don't know what I would do, Tommy."
"I know." He took her hand. "I won't get hurt." He said promisingly.
"You never know what might happen out there." Kristina said softly. "Zack promised me he would be fine, that he would come back and everything would be wonderful again. He's not coming back." A tear ran down Kristina's cheek.
Tommy whipped it away with his thumb. "The others are coming over tonight. To celebrate your new house."
"You mean hour new house." Kristina giggled.
"You still want me living here?" Tommy asked
"Of course I do." Kristina stood up. "Now I'm a mess again. Look, I've got eyeliner running." She laughed.
"Well you can clean up. I've got to do some things today. The others will be over around 2 or so. I should be home around then or sooner." Tommy said. He leaned down and kissed Kristina on the cheek.
A few hours passed and it became 1:00 in the afternoon. Billy showed up at the house. Kristina answered the door. "Hey Billy. I didn't think I'd see you here so soon. It's only one." Kristina said smiling at Billy.
"I know. I was bored so I thought I would come over and see if I can help you get ready." Billy said
"Well every things just about ready but I need to pick out some music. You can help me do that." Kristina said showing Billy to the CD player. "I'm not even sure what Tommy's got here right now." Kristina bent down to take a look.
Billy leaned over her shoulder. "He's got some mixed CD's, want to check them out and see what's on them?" Billy asked
"Sure." Kristina put the CD's into the player. The music came out full blast. "I love this song." She said getting up and dancing to 'Vehicles Shock Me' By James Marsters. "It's got a great beat." She moved with the beat giving Billy a concert.
Billy laughed as she danced around the room. "Your such a dork sometimes." He said laughing hysterically.
"Come on, you know you want to dance with me." Kristina held out a hand to him. She gave him a puppy look and he got up. "Yey" she said pulling him off the couch. "This is my fave part. It's your birthday, and I'm not there because you don't even know that I'm here. Fake trees that you plant behind you." She trailed off. She heard a vehicle pulling into the driveway. Kristina looked out the window. "Rocky and Adam are here." She said in a voice that reminded Billy of a small child. Kristina opened the door and hugged her male friends.
"Hey there Kristina." Adam said releasing Kristina from the embrace. "How are you?" he asked
"I'm fine thanks. Hey Rock-o" Kristina winked at him. "What's up?"
"Hey Kris, nothing up. Hungry, that's about it." Rocky replied.
"Come on, I've got to show you this amazing house. I can't believe Tommy bought this house for me." She said pulling them in.
Rocky looked at Adam. "She seems to be doing a lot better." He said to his dark-haired friend.
"Yeah. I'm glad." Adam replied
They followed Kristina around as she showed them the house. They had seen it before but it had changed in the last few hours, Kristina had obviously moved things around and put things in. It was almost 2:00 when Trini, Kat, Jason, Kimberly and Aisha arrived at the house. Kristina greeted them and showed them around. They all sat on her large couches talking and catching up with Kristina. She hadn't had the heart to talk to Jason, Aisha, Kimberly, Rocky, Adam or Kat since the accident. All she did was tell them she wasn't feeling well, but not to worry, and she always told them to be careful fighting evil before she hung up.
But when it came to Billy and Tommy she always seemed to talk to them, they just knew how to make her feel so much better when it came to her problems. Even when Billy had left for a distant planet to help he found ways to communicate with her. Billy and her were great friends, they seemed to understand what the other was saying when no one else could. But when it came to Tommy Kristina loved him. She knew that Zack would be okay with her falling in love, that he would want her to be happy while he was dead.
They had all be worried about Kristina when the accident happened. They knew that she was deeply in love with Zack but they wouldn't talk about it around her.
Rita and Zedd killed Zack. They had captured him and destroyed him. Kristina wanted so much to seek vengeance upon them but didn't want to risk more friends. The rangers were all she had left.
It was becoming closer to three o clock and Tommy still had not come back from where ever it was that he went off to. Kristina looked at Billy's watch "Where could he be?" Kristina said looking up at Billy.
"I don't know. But you know Tommy, he's always late, he'll probably be late to his own funeral." Billy joked.
Kristina laughed, but she still felt worry in the back of her mind. "Yeah. So what have you all been doing while I was ill?" Kristina said. Billy knew the reason that she told them she was ill. She didn't want them to see her grieving.
Jason smiled. "Well me and Kim are engaged. Bet you never would have guessed that."
Kim laughed, "yeah I was surprised when he asked me."
Kristina tried to be happy but she was still a little angry with Kimberly for hurting Tommy the way that she did when they broke up. She wasn't even nice about it. She sent him a letter, not even thinking about his feelings.
Kat spoke up next. "Well I've been traveling. Since I gave Kimberly the pink ranger powers back I've had a lot of time on my hands to go all around the world."
"That's great Kat." Kristina said. She smiled at her old friend.
Trini looked over. "I'm a journalist. I'm about to get a magazine deal." She said happily.
"Wow that's wonderful." Billy replied
Rocky, Aisha, and Adam all smiled, "Were just happy being power rangers still." Adam said. The other 2 just nodded in agreement.
Kristina looked at the clock for a little while longer
A new home, a new life, And all because of a boy named Tommy
Tommy Oliver looked around the place. "I'm sure she'll love this." He told the man in front of him.
"Are you sure?" The man said in a deep voice.
"Yes Mr. Harris. I'm sure. She was looking at this house the other day." Tommy said. He handed the man an envelope.
"I hope your right Mr. Oliver." Mr. Harris took the envelope, handed Tommy some keys and left.
Tommy looked around the house. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a number. Tommy picked up the phone and dialed the number on the paper. "Billy? Its Tommy, I'm at the house. Yeah the one I was telling you about. Look do you think you could come help me get it ready for her? Really? Thanks. I'll see you in 20." Tommy walked out to his red truck. He grabbed some paint and went into the house again.
Tommy looked at the walls and started painting them white. A few hours later Billy, Adam and Rocky showed up. Billy threw Tommy a towel.
"Hey it looks great in here." Rocky said as he tripped over Tommy's paint can. He was lying in a puddle of white paint. "Sorry Tommy. I'll get you a new can."
Tommy and the others laughed. "That's to funny." Adam said picking up a paintbrush. "So what time are you bringing Kristina around?" Adam asked painting a section of the wall.
"I was planning on bringing her over around dinner. She'll love this house. I know she will." Tommy said painting.
"If not I'm sure we could take it off your hands." Rocky joked. A few hours later the rooms were painted and the guys were lying on the floor out of breath. Tommy opened his eyes. "It's done. Okay now you guys can help me get some furniture in here." Tommy said jumping up to his feet
Rocky groaned.
Billy stood up. "Okay." They started out to the truck and wheeled in some stuff.
A few hours later they were set. The guys said their goodbyes. Tommy picked up the phone and dialed Kristina's phone number. He heard her depressed voice answer the line and a smiled crossed his face. "Kristina, its Tommy. I've got something I want to show you." He said
"Okay. Can you come pick me up?" she asked gently.
"Yeah. I'll be there in like a half hour or so. I've got to stop at my house and take a shower first." He said.
"Okay. See you then." Kristina replied and hung up the phone. She threw a shoe at the wall; she could hear her room mate Kimberly making love with Jason in the next room.
Tommy drove to his place and took a quick shower then grabbed the leashes for three dogs and raced to his back yard. He clipped them onto three large dogs. One was a blonde Lab, another was a rottie, and the other was a great dame. He took them to his truck and drove them to the house he had bought for Kristina.
Kristina looked in the mirror. "What does Tommy want with me?" she wondered. She brushed her hair out and put on a little cover up. "I wish Zack was still here, still alive." She whispered softly. Kristina heard Tommy's truck pull into the driveway. She decided to meet him instead of letting him hear Jason and Kimberly going at it in their room.
"Hey there" Tommy said opening the door for Kristina.
"Hi Tommy." She said softly. "So what is that you wanted to show me?" Kristina asked getting into Tommy's red truck.
"You'll see." Tommy said smiling.
They pulled into the drive way and Kristina looked at the house in front of her. She gasped. "Tommy, what are we doing here?" she asked
"This is for you." He said. Tommy ran around the truck and opened the door for Kristina. "I wanted to buy you something that you would never forget." He took Kristina by the hand and led her towards the house.
"Tommy, why did you do this?" she asked following him into the house. "I wanted to." He said. Tommy looked into Kristina's eyes and smiled. "I love you. I know this is really sudden but I do."
"I think I'm in love with you too." She said.
Tommy leaned down to kiss Kristina, for once she didn't pull away from him. They shared the kiss then Tommy took Kristina to see the dogs. After a little while they went inside.
"Tommy this place is amazing." Kristina said to Tommy. She looked at him and hugged him again and again. "Thank you so much." She kissed him on the cheek.
"I'm glad that you like it." Tommy said.
Later they got some blankets and started a fire. They were cuddled up on the floor talking. Kristina looked up at Tommy. "This is a really big house for one person." She said
"Yeah I guess it is." Tommy replied
"I'll be all alone in here." She looked around.
"You can call me any time." He whispered into her ear.
"Yeah I know. But I was thinking that you could stay here. I mean if you want to." Kristina leaned on him and looked him in the eyes
"You mean like live with you?" Tommy asked
"Yeah, that's what I mean." She said brushing his long hair from his eyes.
"I'd like that." He smiled at her. "I'd like that a lot."
"Yeah." She smiled down at him. For a second they could just look at each other. Then Kristina leaned down and kissed Tommy on the lips. His hand slid around her. His fingers were in Kristina's black hair.
Kristina leaned her head onto his chest again. She ran her fingertips along Tommy's hand. She finally felt peaceful since Zack's death.
They fell asleep together. That night Kristina was having a terrible nightmare. Tommy felt her struggling against her fear. He woke up and tried to wake Kristina up. "Come on your having a nightmare" he said.
Kristina woke up in a sweat. "Tommy, oh god." She said out of breath.
Tommy put his arms around her. "Its okay, I've got you." Tommy said rubbing her back.
"God, Tommy, I saw it again." She said crying on his chest. "Everything was the same and I still couldn't save him."
"It's going to be okay Kristina," he said. He kissed the top of her head. "I promise." He whispered.
Kristina fell back asleep on Tommy. He dosed off finally. In the morning Kristina woke up. Tommy was already awake. He was in the kitchen cooking up something for breakfast. Kristina came around the corner and smiled at Tommy.
"It smells really good in here. I never knew you could cook." Kristina said poring them some OJ. She put her arms around him. "Thank you." She whispered into his ear.
"For what?" he asked
"Last night. You didn't have to sit there with me the whole time." She said
"I wanted to. You needed me. I wanted to hold you." Tommy said. He turned around so he could look right at her. "Kristina, please don't fall in love with me just because Zack is dead. I want to be sure that you're falling in love with me because you love me." Tommy said. He touched her cheek.
"I love you." Kristina said softly.
Tommy smiled and kissed her softly. "I know."
"I'll be back. I'm gonna go change into something else." She said.
"Okay." Tommy replied. He went back to finishing the breakfast. His communicator went off. "Tommy here. What's up Zordon?"
"New trouble, the other rangers need you in the park." Zordon said.
"Alright Zordon. I'll be right there." He looked around. "Zeo ranger 5 red!" Tommy stood in the kitchen in his red Zeo ranger costume he looked down the hallway. "I sure hope that Kristina doesn't notice I'm gone" he teleported to the park to help the rangers.
Kristina came out in a black tank top and jeans. "Tommy? Where did he go?" Kristina sat on the floor. About an hour later Tommy teleported into the living room in his ranger costume. Kristina stood up and looked at him. She growled and left. She walked down the stairs out into the grass; it was soft under her feet. She looked around the grassy back yard. "Why would he go out there and not tell me?" Kristina asked no one in particular.
Kristina could hear footsteps behind her. She didn't bother to look; she just sat down and placed her head in her hands.
Tommy leaned down and sat next to Kristina. "I didn't mean to run off."
"You scared me. Last time someone ran off on me like that he ended up dead." Kristina said looking up. "And if you would have been hurt out there, I don't know what I would do, Tommy."
"I know." He took her hand. "I won't get hurt." He said promisingly.
"You never know what might happen out there." Kristina said softly. "Zack promised me he would be fine, that he would come back and everything would be wonderful again. He's not coming back." A tear ran down Kristina's cheek.
Tommy whipped it away with his thumb. "The others are coming over tonight. To celebrate your new house."
"You mean hour new house." Kristina giggled.
"You still want me living here?" Tommy asked
"Of course I do." Kristina stood up. "Now I'm a mess again. Look, I've got eyeliner running." She laughed.
"Well you can clean up. I've got to do some things today. The others will be over around 2 or so. I should be home around then or sooner." Tommy said. He leaned down and kissed Kristina on the cheek.
A few hours passed and it became 1:00 in the afternoon. Billy showed up at the house. Kristina answered the door. "Hey Billy. I didn't think I'd see you here so soon. It's only one." Kristina said smiling at Billy.
"I know. I was bored so I thought I would come over and see if I can help you get ready." Billy said
"Well every things just about ready but I need to pick out some music. You can help me do that." Kristina said showing Billy to the CD player. "I'm not even sure what Tommy's got here right now." Kristina bent down to take a look.
Billy leaned over her shoulder. "He's got some mixed CD's, want to check them out and see what's on them?" Billy asked
"Sure." Kristina put the CD's into the player. The music came out full blast. "I love this song." She said getting up and dancing to 'Vehicles Shock Me' By James Marsters. "It's got a great beat." She moved with the beat giving Billy a concert.
Billy laughed as she danced around the room. "Your such a dork sometimes." He said laughing hysterically.
"Come on, you know you want to dance with me." Kristina held out a hand to him. She gave him a puppy look and he got up. "Yey" she said pulling him off the couch. "This is my fave part. It's your birthday, and I'm not there because you don't even know that I'm here. Fake trees that you plant behind you." She trailed off. She heard a vehicle pulling into the driveway. Kristina looked out the window. "Rocky and Adam are here." She said in a voice that reminded Billy of a small child. Kristina opened the door and hugged her male friends.
"Hey there Kristina." Adam said releasing Kristina from the embrace. "How are you?" he asked
"I'm fine thanks. Hey Rock-o" Kristina winked at him. "What's up?"
"Hey Kris, nothing up. Hungry, that's about it." Rocky replied.
"Come on, I've got to show you this amazing house. I can't believe Tommy bought this house for me." She said pulling them in.
Rocky looked at Adam. "She seems to be doing a lot better." He said to his dark-haired friend.
"Yeah. I'm glad." Adam replied
They followed Kristina around as she showed them the house. They had seen it before but it had changed in the last few hours, Kristina had obviously moved things around and put things in. It was almost 2:00 when Trini, Kat, Jason, Kimberly and Aisha arrived at the house. Kristina greeted them and showed them around. They all sat on her large couches talking and catching up with Kristina. She hadn't had the heart to talk to Jason, Aisha, Kimberly, Rocky, Adam or Kat since the accident. All she did was tell them she wasn't feeling well, but not to worry, and she always told them to be careful fighting evil before she hung up.
But when it came to Billy and Tommy she always seemed to talk to them, they just knew how to make her feel so much better when it came to her problems. Even when Billy had left for a distant planet to help he found ways to communicate with her. Billy and her were great friends, they seemed to understand what the other was saying when no one else could. But when it came to Tommy Kristina loved him. She knew that Zack would be okay with her falling in love, that he would want her to be happy while he was dead.
They had all be worried about Kristina when the accident happened. They knew that she was deeply in love with Zack but they wouldn't talk about it around her.
Rita and Zedd killed Zack. They had captured him and destroyed him. Kristina wanted so much to seek vengeance upon them but didn't want to risk more friends. The rangers were all she had left.
It was becoming closer to three o clock and Tommy still had not come back from where ever it was that he went off to. Kristina looked at Billy's watch "Where could he be?" Kristina said looking up at Billy.
"I don't know. But you know Tommy, he's always late, he'll probably be late to his own funeral." Billy joked.
Kristina laughed, but she still felt worry in the back of her mind. "Yeah. So what have you all been doing while I was ill?" Kristina said. Billy knew the reason that she told them she was ill. She didn't want them to see her grieving.
Jason smiled. "Well me and Kim are engaged. Bet you never would have guessed that."
Kim laughed, "yeah I was surprised when he asked me."
Kristina tried to be happy but she was still a little angry with Kimberly for hurting Tommy the way that she did when they broke up. She wasn't even nice about it. She sent him a letter, not even thinking about his feelings.
Kat spoke up next. "Well I've been traveling. Since I gave Kimberly the pink ranger powers back I've had a lot of time on my hands to go all around the world."
"That's great Kat." Kristina said. She smiled at her old friend.
Trini looked over. "I'm a journalist. I'm about to get a magazine deal." She said happily.
"Wow that's wonderful." Billy replied
Rocky, Aisha, and Adam all smiled, "Were just happy being power rangers still." Adam said. The other 2 just nodded in agreement.
Kristina looked at the clock for a little while longer