Tommy sat at the table, reading over his student's papers. It was easy since it had just been a pop quiz. Multiple choices and he even had Willow helping him. This was easy, since she just referred to the answer key he had given her. Which was easy, he just looked for the first student to have all the right answers and gave them to her.
She wanted to help, she said, so she took half and asked for the right answers. He gave a small laugh, but learned not to say no to Willow. She used something called her resolve face, and it even worked on seasoned Power Rangers like himself. To bad they didn't have her fighting Zedd, she could have just told him to go hide under a rock, and he would have probably listened.
She's been quiet half the time, and was content with staying in the guest room half the time. He had told her that the basement was off limits, he had some things down there he didn't want to mention to her, say the whole power ranger thing? Thankfully there weren't any problems. Up until yesterday that is. The guys got into a little fight with one of the regular monsters.
It didn't bother him all that much; the younger rangers did a good job, and didn't need any sort of help. Conner had fallen after the battle, of all things to do. If it had been during, the injury would have healed within minutes. Although Conner being himself, he feel in an attempt to get away from Kira, from what Ethan told him the red ranger opened up his big mouth.
Tommy rested the pen for a moment, remembering another red ranger with a big mouth. He smiled as he remembered how frustrated that Kimberly got when Jason didn't quit. It seemed he was dazed out for more then he thought because a pale hand was waving itself in front of his face.
"Hello, anybody in there?" An amused voice said. He looked over to see his new friend Willow there. Her eyes looked like they were laughing. She held up a pile of papers and put them on the ones he had already finished. Willow gently removed the hand that was grading the papers, and took some more of the tests to grade.
"You really don't have to do that." He told her. She just shrugged and went back to her seat with a smile. He flexed the hand she moved, he could still feel where her hands touched. Corny? Yes, but truthful. At this moment he didn't know if it was a bad thing or not that he was starting to feel like this for someone. Lately, for the last couple of years, he didn't want to risk dating. Only because of the memories of his past lovers made him a tad nervous.
"Are you starting to get hungry? I could make us something, it's the least I can do since you seem so determined to grade all my students' tests." He leaned back into the chair and looked at her, waiting for a reaction.
"Oh . . . food sounds very nice." She nodded. "Yea, I could so use food. The good edible kind, which means you should cook because you're a whole lot better then I am at the whole, well cooking thing. Not that I'm bad or anything, just not as well as our Dr. O here . . ."
Tommy on the other hand laughed; he liked it when she started to over-talk. She got mad when someone didn't stop her though. "Willow!"
"Huh? Oh! You think after all this time; I would stop with the babbling. It was bad enough I had to subject those poor kids with it yesterday!" She tilted her head to the side. "Are those the only kids that don't think you're weird or anything?"
That question surprised him a bit. "What do you mean by that?"
"Well," She started. "It seems that those are the only kids that come around. I know that they came around a couple of days ago too. Although they were leaving as I was getting up." She pondered on that for a moment, with her head tilted to the side and a finger near the tip of her mouth. "I wonder why I slept so late anyway."
He was amazed on how fact she could change subjects so quick. "Well, I happen to tutor them." Which wasn't a lie; he just tutored them on the art of kicking the ass of the bad guys.
"Right . . ." You know, something sounded to clipped about how he said that, she didn't have a chance to say anything else, he had gotten up and started to pull out some stuff for dinner and then went to get some pans to cook with. She sighed, the way he said it sounded too automatic. That or it sparked something because that's what Giles would say when he was asked why she and the other scoobies always spent too much time with him. Oh yeah, what was he supposed to say, he made sure the world didn't end? She doubted that was Tommy's excuse.