Mishaps in love.
Disclaimer : I don't own PR and am making no money off this.
A/N This is my first real attempt at a Romance and my first Tommy/Kim fic. Hope you like it.
Chapter 1: Loneliness
Tommy woke up one morning feeling rather down. Whilst he'd been asleep he'd been dreaming about the good old days: back when he was a Power Ranger for the first and second times. He'd been dreaming about all his old friends and how they used to battle evil together. He'd dreamt about his bro Jason, fun loving Zach, calm and collected Trini, wise-beyond his years Billy, always hungry Rocky, direct and up front Aisha, quiet and kind Adam and… Kim.
The beautiful and loving Kim; the one who had once been the light that brightened his day. That was all in the past now; their relationship, his friendships but unfortunately not his ranger days.
While most of his friends had been able to escape forcibly being returned to rangering, with the possible exception of Jason, he seemed unable to leave the uniform behind. Now 10 years after he first battled the forces of evil he found himself part of a new Ranger team.
After a quick shower and selecting a black outfit for the day he headed to Haley's cyber café for some breakfast and to see his friend. Arriving there he saw the place was quite empty: only Haley and his fellow Dino thunder rangers were there. Trent was cleaning a table, Ethan seemed to be watching some kind of computer animation on one of the machines, Conner was kicking a ball in the air and getting yelled at by Haley whilst Kira seemed to be sitting at a table looking from Conner to Trent in what Tommy could only assume to be an attempt to decide which she found more attractive.
"Hey Tommy" called Haley happily as she finally snatched the ball of Conner.
"Alright Dr O" added Conner
"How are you today?" asked the former yellow Ranger joining in the conversation.
"I'm ok" replied the black dino thunder ranger, "just been thinking about the past. I should really call some of my old friends; its been too long."
Just then the door to Hayley's café swung open and in walked a tall man dressed in black pants and a shirt of so many colours.
"Hello," greeted Haley "can I help y…" She was cut of mid sentence as this man grabbed Tommy in a large hug.
"Guess who?" he proclaimed loudly
"Er…" replied Tommy confused
"Awww man," replied the stranger, "have you forgotten the Z man so quickly."
"Zack?" asked Tommy, "wait a minute… did you just say aww man?"
Releasing his friends Zack leaned in closely and whispered "you took my colour: thought I'd try your catchphrase out."
Tommy burst into laughter, "you haven't changed at all."
"You have: whoever thought you'd end up a doctor of palaeontology. Go figure."
By this point all the others were looking at Zack with questioning looks.
"oh," said Zack pausing briefly at the stares and then ignoring them pulled Tommy into another hug, "you should try harder to keep in contact."
"This from the guy who sent one postcard and a fax to school when he travelled the world," replied Tommy smiling.
Turning round to the others he said "this is Zack Taylor and old friend of mine and the original black Ranger…"
"What are you doing telling them…" began the ex Ranger.
"And these," continued Tommy regardless, "are Conner, Kira, Ethan, and Trent: The Dino Thunder Rangers and Haley a good friend of mine and a great help," he leaned closer to his friend and said more quietly, "she keeps me sane with this lot."
"So you two are…?" questioned Zack
"No!" proclaimed Tommy, "not anymore."
"So is there anyone at the mo?" asked Zack
"No," replied Tommy his mind flitting back once more to his teenage love, "you?"
"Yup: I'm engaged."
"Wow congratulations…"
"To Angela" he added with a twinkle in his eye.
Tommy laughed again thinking back to when Zack was still getting knocked back by Angela and when he was… happy with Kim.
"So?" continued Tommy, "what are you doing here."
"Just visiting you and seeing if you wanna come catch up with the others: all the old gang some time next week. We're meeting in Angel grove at the youth centre on the Saturday.
"That sounds good," replied Tommy unthinking, "next weeks a holiday week anyway so I wont have to work."
"ok" replied Zack, "I'll see you then. I gotta run."
"wow," thought Tommy as Zack left, 'it'd be so long since he'd seen them all. It'd be great to see Trini, Jason Billy, Adam… Kim.' A moment later eh was filled with both fear and excitement. He was going to see Kim again. What if she was married? He wasn't sure he could cope with that. Oh god… what if she brought a date. He was going to have to take one too. But who? His eyes fell on Hayley. As long as Zack didn't mention he wasn't involved that'd work out fine. Sicne Hayley knew it'd just be pretend.
Now all he had to do was convince her…
"Hayley?" he said sweetly…
Chapter 2: Kims point fo view.