Opposites Are Attracted to Each Other Chapter 1, a power rangers fanfic

Disclaimer: I don't own the Power Rangers. This is a work of speculative fiction based on the supporting staff of SPD. If you don't like Kat and Boom together, please do not proceed with this story.

Author's Note: This is a new type of Story for me. Not only is it Power Rangers SPD, but it also shows both sides of the story. I am not sure if it came off well or not. If you are here because of my KP stories, please bare with me as I try to get my KP muse back. I am just happy that I am actually writing anything right now.

Boom sighed, creasing his brow at the paper work. He stole another glance at her and sighed heavier. She had left, but come back, in his mind because of his pleading. He held her back from what she deserved. The honor and prestige of working in Central Command was hers, if it had not been for his incompetence.

Boom's attention decided to pick this time to wander, and it wandered to her, not as a scientist, or a mechanic, or even as a friend, but as a woman. Truly, she was the most beautiful woman he had seen. On the few times he was invited on 'Guy's Night Out', he wouldn't add into the discussion of the female persuasion. It usually devolved into a back and forth debate between Sky and Bridge about Syd and Z respectfully. He already took enough ribbing from everyone; he didn't need the added ribbing about a silly crush… Boom shook his head. It wasn't silly. It was just a crush, plain and simple. One sided and hopeless as it were, but not silly.

Continuing down the rabbit hole, he was unable to stop thinking about her as he kept stealing glances of her as she worked on the computations that held her attention. What could anyone fault him for his crush? She was the epitome of perfect womanhood. She was intelligent and smart. There was a difference, Boom told himself. She was kind, friendly, thoughtful, patient… That list could go on forever. His mind drifted slowly to the area that he would prefer it to stay away from, at least at work. She had the most perfect form he could imagine. It was as if she was sculpted by a great master. The curves were just so, the lines leading to draw the eyes to the right place. Her eyes were so brilliant that you couldn't help get lost in them, but they were so close to her lips that you could get lost in equally as easily. Boom couldn't count the times he was brought out of a trance by her snapping those delicate fingers in front of his eyes after he was mesmerized from watching her speak. Truthfully, he could watch her speak for hours; he could listen to her speaking for days. Then there was the thing she did with her tongue when she was deep in thought. How the tip of the tongue rested on the tip of her right fang and bent the body of the tongue out.

Boom stifled a moan and he hurriedly sorted the paperwork in the proper order. He caught her ear twitch from the corner of his eye. He forgot about that. Her twitching ears… He forced himself to stay on the task at hand and not contemplating her again.

"Did you say something, Boom?" Kat asked, her neck craned out, her eyes locked on him. Her body was perfectly still, like she was ready to pounce on prey.

It's just vestigial instincts left over from evolution. "Err, yes, no, I mean I think I have everything sorted and was thankful that it was done."

That was when she stretched. Her lithe body shifted and twisted as only she could in the eyes of Boom. A slight smile of content appreciation washed over his face. Her eyes locked onto his eyes and his look instantly evaporated back to his usual slightly bewildered look. "Well, I am done with the calculations. How about we call it a day?"

Paradise was ripped from Boom with those words; it meant that he wouldn't see her again till tomorrow. Then the cycle would repeat itself with just minor iterations. He sighed slightly and nodded while standing up.

He turned to leave. He sat the file folders neatly onto the desk before he went to the door. As the door opened, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned and looked at her. He saw a look that he had never seen on her face before, a look of shyness, and uncertainty.

"Boom, I was thinking about getting a bite to eat at the new place around the corner. If you do not have plans, would you like to join me?"

Boom's brain ceased functioning for a time period. As all of his faculties finally rebooted, he nodded. "Yes! I mean, sure. I'd love to; err, like to, I mean I would enjoy eating you… I mean eating with you," his words stumbled as much as his feet as he hit the door frame, and then the wall, before actually making it out of the door. "I need to go change out of these clothes. Don't leave without me, please."

She gave a slight smile and a giggle, "I need to change also. Shall we meet at the front desk in thirty minutes?"

Boom nodded vigorously. "Thirty minutes, front desk. Yes." With that, he headed hurriedly down the corridor before stopping and reversing his direction. Stopping in front of Kat, "I need to head this way." He was down the hall and around the corner and disappeared.

Kat Manx stole a glance up from her work to see what her colleague, well assistant was doing. Boom was sitting in the same position shuffling papers. She knew he was doing something else from the occasional non-sound of papers not being sorted. She was just not sure what it was. Why she didn't question him is that he was away from any delicate equipment. Though she wouldn't trade working in the lab for her pick of desk jobs at Central Command.

She kept thinking of Boom as she worked on the figures and formulas before her. He wasn't handsome, but he was cute in his own way. He was friendly and loyal. He would do anything that a friend asked with out thinking about it. He was a little misguided at times, but he was always there when you needed him. The times when a 'Girl's Night Out' that invariably devolved into Syd and Z going on about Sky and Bridge respectively. Kat kept quiet, but with a smirk while she thought how Boom compared to the two.

She jotted down a few notations on the screen that she was working on. Boom had mass to him, not all chiseled muscle, but he had that hidden under everything else. He was insightful, though most of the time he didn't realize it. He did always have a knack of saying the right thing to help lighten the day. He could think on a higher level when he put forth the effort, but she knew that keeping the effort long enough to change others opinions of him was a bit too much for him to accomplish. Kat sighed as she thought about the days leading up to her short stint at Central Command. Boom had everything organized. Everything was filed and submitted well within the proper time frame. The lab had never been as clean as it had then. After she left, Boom seemed to revert back to his normal self. She looked up again and noticed that he had hurriedly started to shuffle the papers into order. When he has a known purpose, he does fine. The purpose for that time was for her to move up to Central Command. Not because he wanted her to go, she know that, but for her to get what she deserved. She looked at the equation that she was working on and proofed her work. Thinking back to that time she came to the conclusion that sometimes what you want and what you deserve isn't the same think, even when what you deserve is seen as better to others. In truth, she had tried to get Boom transferred as her assistant, but it was made clear that he wasn't Central Command material. Boom wasn't all that much of a conversationalist, that is true, but he wasn't lost when it came to technical speak; not to mention that he was an excellent listener. Though running on after becoming glued into his soft eyes was a problem. Half of the time, it would just be free thought that came out, but he never minded. As she devoted her attention to the equation, her tongue snaked out of her mouth and arched itself on her right fang.

She finished double checking her figures when her ear twitched at the sound from Boom, other than the normal sighs. Her eyes locked onto him as she stretched out to get a better look. "Did you say something, Boom?"

His heartbeat jumped and then raced, that matched his increased breathing. "Err, yes, no, I mean I think I have everything sorted and was thankful that it was done," he replied.

Standing she stretched the muscles that were tensed from sitting too long. She caught him looking at her with a silly shy smile on his face. She looked him dead in the eye and the look dissipated all too quickly to his normal facial countenance. "Well, I am done with the calculations. How about we call it a day?"

She noticed how he sighed when he stood up and nodded. Long had she waited for him to take the hints and casual suggestions. That was not to be apparently, she would be the one to hunt him. As he sat the folders on the desk and turned for the door, she crossed the floor quickly and rested her hand on his shoulder.

She hated this feeling; it was like she was in school again and lost the confidence that she normally had around others. "Boom, I was thinking about getting a bite to eat at the new place around the corner. If you do not have plans, would you like to join me?"

She watched him as a bewildered look blanked out his face and he slowly started to grin. "Yes! I mean, sure. I'd love to; err, like to, I mean I would enjoy eating you… I mean eating with you," his words stumbled as much as his feet as he hit the door frame, and then the wall, before actually making it out of the door.

"I need to go change out of these clothes. Don't leave without me, please."

She gave a slight smile and a giggle at his antics, not to mention the Freudian slip, "I need to change also. Shall we meet at the front desk in thirty minutes?"

Turning to head back to her room Kat mused to herself, "I love a man that has nice flanks."