- A week later -
"Would you please knock that off?" An irrited voice came through the doorway. Willow peeked through to see three teenagers sitting at the kitchen table. The one who spoke must have been the one with the red shirt, since the only other guy with them was trying not to laugh.
"I'm simply cleaning the wound, you big baby. Next time don't fall near pointy objects!" The blonde girl chided the red clad boy. And boy, she wouldn't mind being nagged by that blonde, hubba hubba. To bad she didn't look all that legal.
"That wasn't my fault!" His whining reminded her so much of Xander, she couldn't help the small giggle that came from her mouth. The three of them looked over to see her lean on the doorway, before she smiled and walked to sit next to Tommy who looked amused by the teenagers' antics.
"I take it these would be the students?" She propped an arm on the table and leaned on her hand. "Tell me who the cutie is." She took a look over to the group, the guys looked rather smug.
"Cutie? Well the one with the bandage is Conner, and the other guy is Ethan."
"No, no, no. I wasn't talking about them! I wanna know who the cute blonde is!" She whined like a 5 year old. She took a glance over to the said girl, who blushed.
Tommy coughed, trying to cover a laugh. The poor guys looked so defeated. "That would be Kira. Just remember they're not legal yet." He said with a straight face. He smiled as he looked at Willow. He had helped her almost a week ago. They had gotten to know each other, and he let her stay with him. He had found out that she was trying to get her head put back in place. She had broken up with her latest flame, and needed to be away from her friends to sort out what was inside of her.
"Aww, drat!" She snapped her fingers for effect. She gave a side glance to Kira, whose face looked a bit redder then before. "Don't worry, I wouldn't corrupt you." She winked at the blonde. "Give me another few years before I try that."
The black ranger almost groaned out loud, she was impossible! He shook his head. "That's it. I give up, it there a user manual for you somewhere?"
Willow pretended to think about it for a moment. "Hmm, you know that's a good question. You could always go and ask Xander. Probably the only one who would know that question, or maybe even Buffy." She shrugged.
The teens looked on with interest. They never saw Dr. O this relaxed around anyone before. It was nice; he was usually always so serious. Though considering most teachers was in their classrooms, and they saw him when fighting bad guys. So being serious was one of those things needed. Unless they were talking about the current red ranger, but that was Conner for you.
Kira sighed as she looked at the half wrapped bandage in her hand. She went to tighten it, and close it as Conner flinched. She almost growled. "Dammit you big baby, stay still!"
At that outburst Willow looked over, her eyebrows raised. She tilted her head to the side and looked at the brunette boy whose cheeks slightly burned when he saw the red head look at him. "I would love to say something, you remind me to much of Xander for any of it to be mean. Slightly perverted maybe, but that's probably what happens when you hang out with Anya for to long. Not that it's a bad thing, but you never know. Goddess knows I would never say any of the things I think when I was your age. I was the meek little computer geek who – umm . . . "Now she had the grace to blush. "Wow, I haven't babbled like that in oh . . . "She tried to think. ". . . Yesterday. Damn you Oliver, what did I tell you to do when I started to babble?"
He took off his glasses and Willow almost had a double take. He was pinching his nose trying not to laugh. He was doing a Giles thing! "Now why would I deprive the kids of not seeing you babble? I think you look adorable when you babble."
She lightly smacked him in the arm. "Compliments are big no at this moment. Nice try Tommy, but it isn't getting you off the hook."
"Oh, we're finished here Dr. O. Thanks for letting us uses the first aid." Ethan's voice piped up for the first time since Willow entered the room. He then fished in this backpack and withdrew a few pieces of paper. "There are the assignments I missed the other day."
"Thank you Ethan, but I told you guys to take a week to do them. This isn't just something to rush."
"I know that, but this was too easy. I figured I'd get it done. Besides the less work for me to do, the more game time I have." He looked at Willow before heading out. "It was nice meeting you ma'am."
"Oh for Goddess sake's! It's just Willow!" She heard the small laughter of Kira who followed her friend out the door; both her and Conner said their good-byes and waved before the blonde shut the door behind her. Even after that she heard a muffled 'ow' that seemed to belong to Conner.
Tommy leaned back in his chair and sighed. It was eventful having Willow here. Even with the threat of them being the rangers slipping out, he had this instinct to make sure she was fine. He had no worry she could take care of herself, he just didn't want her to. He wanted to protect her, but what was he supposed to protect her from?