Title: Detention (drabble)
Pairing: Hayley/Kira/Trent
Dedication: Casey who first requested Kira/Trent in detention then changed her mind to include Hayley.
"I can't believe she put us in detention for running in errand for Dr. O," Trent said with annoyance, glaring at the woman who had just exited the room.
Kira shrugged and opened her song notebook. "It's Randall – if she could put us in detention for existing, she would." She fiddled with her pen, lost in a memory. "She put me in detention for playing my guitar in the quad way back on the first day."
"No way," he said disbelievingly. "That's not fair."
"I always thought so. Ethan and Conner definitely deserved the detention, but I didn't deserve it. On the other hand, I wouldn't trade that day for anything. That's how we all became Rangers . . . we accidentally stumbled on the lab and found our Dino Gems. And how I hated the thought of having to work with Conner at that point in time. But he's a good friend and a good leader, the person his Gem obviously saw."
"He has changed," he agreed as he pulled out his sketchpad.
"What are you working on?" Kira asked, peering at his latest drawing.
He made no attempt to hide the picture of a redhead surrounded by technology. "It's a gift for Hayley," he said when he noticed her puzzled expression. "Her birthday is next month."
"Wow, you really captured how pretty she is," Kira remarked easily. His explanation satisfied her curiosity and she turned back to her current songwriting experiment that focused on making friends with people who are spectacularly different.
Trent stared at the image guiltily. To explain to the girl that he was dating that he had kissed Hayley recently was nearly impossible, and he sensed that his time of reckoning was coming. Hayley had been his rock since he joined the team, the one who offered encouragement when he needed it most and the one who reassured him that the team would come to trust him. And for the most part, Ethan and Kira trusted him with their lives even though Conner was still quick to judge him based on the past. But even Conner's hostility had eased when Trent showed no signs of hurting Kira. Obviously, that would change when Trent finally found the courage to tell Kira that he couldn't date her anymore. Hayley had tried to deter him from that course of action, convinced that it could never work between them. She had failed though when he kissed her again to prove his point. It would have to remain a secret, but it was less difficult than the secret of his father's identity.