DISCLAIMER: Not Mine. But I wouldn't mind having them around. A girl can dream can't she???????

SUMMARY: This is the sequel to Safe in the Arms of Love. I already have a good chunk of this one in my head. Now let's just see if it comes out the way I've pictured it.

A/N: This one is a little bit fluffier than it's predecessor. There's a lot of the Tommy/Kim dynamic and a huge amount of the Jason/Kim friendship. Hang on 'cause here we go again.

February 14, 2004

Kim was sitting in her office when Tommy called her.

"Hey, beautiful, how are things going?"

"Fantastic. How about for you?"

"Well, remember those Dino Gems I told you about?"

"Yeah. You had them in your basement, right?" He had told her a lot about what he suspected about the dino gems. They had really amazing energy readings and he was thinking that they might be connected to the Power that they had held so many years ago.

"Well, they're missing. I think I know who took them though. I had three students with me today for detention. I had to take them because the new principal told me to. She put me in charge of it because I'm the new teacher. She's strange, Kim. There's something about her that just strikes me wrong. Kind of like Principal Snyder on Buffy. Remember him? He hated kids but was a high school principal? Anyway, I had to go to the museum to set up a field trip. I told the kids to look around the woods and see if they could find something prehistoric. If they could, I'd cancel detention for the rest of the week."

"They found the stones."

"Yeah, they did. I checked the security cameras in the lair. They took them and it looks like the stones became active the minute they picked them up."

"So where were you when this was going on?"

"Running from a T-Rex."

"Be serious, Tommy."

"I am. When I decided to come back to the museum to set up the field trip the next day, I noticed that the T-Rex that was on display outside the main door was gone. I turned around to look and next thing I knew it was right behind me. I ran for the jeep and got it started. It chased the jeep as I drove down the road. Thankfully, it ran headfirst into the overpass I drove under. That's when I discovered that it was mechanical. I only know of one person that could create a mechanical creation that looked that real, Kim."

"Anton." He had told her all about the experiments he and his friend, Anton Mercer had conducted on that island so long ago. "I thought he died when the island exploded."

"So did I. I don't know what's going on but I intend to find out."

Her voice was small as she asked her next question. "Are you okay, tiger?"

That tiny voice broke his heart. He had scared her with his story. "I swear to you, Kim. The only way I could be more fine right now is if I was there with you telling you this story." He chuckled. "I will tell you this much; the line 'Must go faster' has a whole new meaning for me now."

She giggled. "That's better," he said. "I have to go for now, beautiful. I'll call you in a few days. Okay?"

"Okay. Just be careful, Tommy."

"I promise. And you know me, once I promise, I will do everything in my power to keep that promise."

"I love you."

"I love you, too." He heard her yawn through the lines. "Get some sleep, beautiful."

"Okay." The two hung up and Kim locked up the center and headed across the green to her apartment. She trudged up the steps and unlocked the door.

The minute her head hit the pillow, she was asleep dreaming of the day she and Tommy would get married.

February 21, 2004

Tommy sank into the chair beside his kitchen table. The light on his answering machine was blinking. He smiled. 'She just couldn't wait for me to call her. I can't wait till she finds out that I'm back on duty. And with a fourth color. She's going to tease me mercilessly.'

He picked up the phone and dialed her number without even looking at the keypad. "Hey beautiful."

"Tommy!"

"Sorry I didn't call you last night. I was kind of tied up. Literally."

"What?!?" Tommy had to pull the phone from his ear as she shrieked at him.

"Easy, Kim. Mesogog captured me and tried to get me to free a dino gem."

"You didn't do it, did you?" She was scared.

"Well, I did. But not until after the kids rescued me. I used the stone it was in to deflect a ray of some kind that Elsa shot at us. It freed the stone and I ---- kind of turned invisible." He took a deep breath as he waited for that to sink in. "The kids thought I'd been blown up. But the gem had just turned me invisible."

"You're back." Her voice was soft and he wasn't sure he'd actually heard her say it.

"Yeah, I am." He sounded almost remorseful, as if he was sorry to be telling her this.

She forced herself to brighten. "Does this mean you used a witty line or two?"

"Yeah. I really did. When Elsa saw that I had freed the gem, she yelled, 'That gem belongs to my master!'"

"What did you say?" Tommy could hear the smile in her voice.

"There's two things you guys need to learn about dino gems. One, you can't choose them, they choose you."

"What did she say to that?"

"'What's the other?' And so I told her. 'They go real well with Dino Morphers.'"

Kim giggled. "Let me guess you also used the old 'Just like riding a bike' line."

"Later on, yeah." He was smiling. "Elsa even had the nerve to ask me if I was too old for this. I told her 'I may be old but I can still pull it off'."

Kim threw back her head laughing. "It's a good thing I live alone here. You really are good for my mood."

"Did you have a bad day?" He was instantly worried about her.

"Just long. Tell me more. I'll bet there was a battle."

"Of course. I was fighting this guy named Zeltrax and at one point he asked me, 'Is that all you've got, Black Ranger?'" Tommy chuckled. "I told him, 'Give me a break. It's been a while.'"

"Black. Zack's not going to be happy that you got his color this time. What's it going to be next, blue? Or maybe you'll try yellow or pink?" He knew that this was coming. She was teasing him already.

"Blue maybe. Definitely not pink. I could never pull that one off as well as you do. And yellow…. Probably not. Kira, Aisha, and Tanya would kill me. Not to mention, Trini would probably come back to haunt me for that one."

"Do you even own any black clothes?"

"A few. I had to go pick up some at the store. Mostly I'm just going with the black t-shirts. I can wear those with my khakis or my jeans."

"Tommy Oliver clothes shopping? Must be a sign of impending doom or something," she teased.

"Hey, I had to have the right color in my closet!" he protested laughing. "After all, I didn't have you here to do it for me."

"I know. How about I come see you this weekend?"

"I'd love that. I can show around Reefside and you can help me pick out a few more black clothes."

"Maybe we can find you a shirt that has all of your colors in it," she teased. "Just wait till I tell Jason about this."

"Kim, that's not right. Here I am, fighting again even though I'm not a teen by any stretch of the imagination and you're going to sic Rex on me?"

"Tommy, I have to tell Jase. He'd be really upset if he wasn't in on the teasing." She was using that voice again. He could never refuse her when she pled with him like that.

"Okay. Just don't tell everyone."

"I won't. Talk to you Friday when I get there." She giggled. "I love you, tiger."

"Love you too, beautiful. Get some sleep."

She hung up the phone knowing that she had at least one phone call to make the next day.