Disclaimer: Everything PR-related that you recognize belongs to Saban… or Disney- whatever. It belongs to whoever owns it, alright? Tyler, on the other hand, is an original character and is mine.
Note: Well, this is it. The end. It feels weird, though. To finally have finished it. To write that small 'The End' at the bottom of the page, at the end of the Word document I've written the story in. Heh. I hope you'll like the last chapter as much as you liked the 9 others. So enjoy your reading, and please review after you're done. And thanks for sticking with me for the year and a half it took me to write it, even though I'm not a fast updater.
Also, sorry for the weird formatting (the lines and stuff). is being a btch and is messing with my formatting, so I had to find a way to separate the different parts of the chapter.
Thanks lindsay, Wen, crazy4nc128, babymar-mar and Rina for reviewing chapter 9, and thanks in advance to all the others who will review in the future!
By DiscoHippie382
Chapter 10: Moving and Annoucements
Rocky slammed the front door behind him, nearly tripping over one of the several boxes piled in the hall of his and Adam's apartment. Soon to be Kim and Adam's, the former Red and Blue Ranger thought with a smile, spying some boxes labelled Kimberly Hart in a corner. "Honey, I'm home!" he announced himself.
"Man, shut up," Adam said, laughing as he poked his head out of his and Rocky's old study and Tyler's future room.
After the announcement that Kim and Tyler were going to move in with Adam once Rocky had moved out, most of the old gang had spent a hectic week, helping to pack Rocky's belongings whenever they could and making sure that Kim and Tyler's things, that had been in storage until they found a place to live, were shipped in from Miami and arrived without trouble. It was now Friday night, and they were almost done with packing.
The next day would mark the start of the Big Move Weekend. On Saturday morning, the gang was helping Rocky move into Aisha's place, and during the afternoon they were helping Kim and Tyler move in with Adam.
"What are you doing?" Rocky inquired, walking into the room behind Adam.
"Putting Ty's bed together," Adam said, making a vague hand motion in direction of the half-assembled bed. "That'll be one thing less to do later, and since your stuff is already packed, and mine stacked in my bedroom, I decided to take a head start to this room."
"Good idea," Rocky agreed, leaning against the wall. "Excited yet?"
"Yeah," Adam said, grinning as he went back the task at hand. "But it's gonna be strange living with a girl, though."
"Not to forget your son," Rocky added. "Well, froggie, I sure hope for you that she cooks well."
"She does," Adam assured. "And anyway, I'm sure that my old FrogZord could've cooked better than you."
"HEY!"
Meanwhile, Kim and Tyler were over at Aisha's place. Tyler was watching TV while the two girls chatted away, making space for Rocky's things that would start to arrive early the next morning.
"Excited about tomorrow?" Aisha asked as she picked up a stack of paper and put them away in her desk.
"Well, yeah. Of course!" Kim replied. "I'm just glad things turned out that good with Adam, you know. And Ty can't wait to be living with his father."
"He got used to him rather quickly, didn't he?" Aisha asked. "Give me a hand with that."
Kim took hold of an end of the small desk and together the girls moved it to a corner of the room. "Yeah. He's spent the last four years asking about his father, so when I told him he was finally going to meet him, he was so happy!"
"I can imagine," Aisha said softly, glancing at the child sitting on the couch in the next room. "So did you think about the guys' offer?" she asked, changing the subject.
Earlier in the week, Jason, Tommy and Rocky had asked her to stop by the Dojo as she was out doing some errands. She'd walked in during their lunch break, and they had offered her a position as gym teacher at the Dojo. She had told them she would think about it, and still hadn't told them her decision.
"I think I'm going to accept. I would teach three classes a day, and I was thinking of signing Tyler up for some martial arts classes in the evenings, so he's going to be at the Dojo with me during my evening classes. And he's starting nursery school in two weeks anyway, so he'll be there during the day."
"That's great, girl!" Aisha said. "And I have great news too. You know that veterinarian in Stone Canyon that I worked with two years ago?" Kim nodded. "Well, she called me two days ago. She wants to open a new breach of her clinic here in Angel Grove, and she asked me if I wanted to manage it!"
"That's great, Ish!" Kim said, hugging her friend. "So you said yes, right?"
"Yeah. I called her back yesterday," Aisha said.
"Does Rocky know about it?"
"Yup. Told him after I got off the phone with Sandra - that's the woman I worked with. He was really happy for me."
"Hey, and did you know that Kat just accepted to teach dance classes at the Dojo, twice a week?" Kim asked. "She called me yesterday. The guys offered her to become a full time teacher there, but since she's decided to go back to school and major in Communications at AGU, she couldn't, and they made a compromise."
"Yeah, I talked to her this morning. That's great for her."
"Yeah, it is. Hey, Ish? You know what's strange?"
"No, what?" Aisha asked.
"It's only been two weeks since I'm back, and it's almost as though I never left. I mean, you guys welcomed me back here right away, even if I never told you about Tyler, and even if I didn't really keep in touch with no-one except Jason-"
"Kim, you had your reasons. And the seven of us share a bond so tight - mostly due to our past as You-Know-Whats - I don't think we could hate you even if we wanted," Aisha interrupted.
"Thanks, girl. You don't know how much it means to me that I still had a family here even after all these years of being gone," Kim said.
Grinning, Aisha hugged her tightly. "Hey, let's not get too emotional here, shall we? We have a cleaning job to do!"
The next morning, when Jason dragged himself out of bed, Kim was making breakfast in the kitchen and Tyler was sitting on the living room couch, looking at the images in his favorite storybook.
"Glad to finally see you out of hibernation!" Kim joked as her oldest friend walked into the kitchen. "Rocky needs you in less than a hour."
"I know, I know," Jason grumbled, pouring himself some coffee. "God, I look like a zombie."
"Hey, whose fault is it?" Kim said. "You shouldn't have stayed up, watching TV till past midnight when you knew all too well that you had to be up extra early today," she told him reproachfully.
"I know all that, Mom," he retorted. "Give me a rest, will you?"
"Wow, someone's grumpy this morning!" Kim exclaimed, turning back to the counter.
By the time he was ready to leave, Jason was much more awake, and had recovered his good mood. "I'll see you guys later," he said, hugging Kim and ruffling Tyler's hair.
"Make sure Rocky doesn't hurt his back again!" Kim called after him, remembering how Rocky had badly injured his back a few years before, while practising for a martial arts competition.
Tommy was the last to arrived at Adam's apartment. He had had to drive Kat over to Aisha's house, and they had ended up picking Kim and Tyler up on the way - the girls had agreed to meet at Aisha's to be ready to help unloading Rocky's things from the cars once they'd arrived.
"Nice of you to join us," Rocky joked, heaving a box up in the back of his jeep. He, Jason and Adam had already started to bring down boxes and the smaller pieces of furniture.
"Sorry," Tommy apologized, taking a box from Adam and stacking it in the back seat of the jeep. "I had to drive Kat, Kim and Tyler to Aisha's before coming here."
"It's quite alright," Jason said. "Now come over here and open the car door for me. There isn't any space left in the jeep."
It was a little past 10:30 when the boys arrived at Aisha and Rocky's. The next four hours were spent unloading the boxes from the cars and bringing up Rocky's furniture. The only real challenge was when they had to figure out a way to fit the bed - which would go in the guest room - through the door. Of course, the girls, with their practical minds, were there to save the day and solved the problem quite easily.
BANG.
"ROCKY!" Kat shrieked. "Be careful!"
Poor Rocky had not only tripped over a box, he had also dropped the box he was carrying - mere millimetres from Kat's foot. "Sorry," the sheepish man apologized. "But no sweat about what's in the box. It's just papers."
The three girls rolled their eyes and went back to work. "The neighbours are going to love him," Aisha said under her breath. Kim and Kat laughed.
It was only around 4 that the gang got to Adam and Kim's place. There, the job was easier: they only had a few pieces of furniture to move into place, and to separate Tyler's boxes from Kim's to then place them in their respective rooms. Together, Adam, Kim and Tyler would later unpack them all.
Once their task accomplished, everyone sat down in the living room to relax. They had a quick dinner, then just sat talking. Soon enough, exhausted, Tyler went to bed, surprisingly of his own will.
"The Green Tiger Dojo is so successful that we got subventions to open another one," Jason told them.
"Where?" Kat asked.
"We don't know yet, but it's for sure going to be in California," Rocky answered.
"That's so cool, guys!" Aisha said, hugging Rocky.
"Totally awesome," Kim agreed, punching Jason's shoulder.
"I'm so proud of you," Kat murmured, kissing Tommy tenderly.
"You guys are making it big," Adam laughed. "Congrats, guys."
"Thanks!" Rocky, Jason and Tommy chorused, beaming.
"Um, since we're talking about the Dojo," Kim said. "I've decided to take up your offer of teaching gymnastics there."
"Great," Rocky said.
"And is there some place left in your beginners classes?" she continued. "I'd like to sign Tyler up."
"Sure thing," Tommy said. "I'll check it out tomorrow then I'll give you a call, okay?"
"Thanks," Kim told him.
"Oh, Kim, you'll have to stop by the Dojo for your work schedule," Jason said. "We kinda had the feeling you'd say yes, so we made a rough draft." Everyone laughed.
"I have an announcement too," Aisha said. "You guys remember Sandra, the woman I worked with at her vet clinic in Stone Canyon a few years ago?" They nodded. "Well, she wants to open a new office here in Angel Grove, and she asked me to be the manager/Head vet. I accepted, of course." Happy exclamations and hugs came from everywhere, until Kim shushed them, pointing in direction of Tyler's room.
"As you all know, I'll be taking classes at Angel Grove University," Kat said. "I'm starting in two weeks. I won't be able to teach more than two dance classes at the Dojo," she reminded, Rocky, Jason and Tommy.
Adam cleared his throat. "Um, since we're on the topic of school… I've also decided to go back to studying," he said. Surprised exclamations. "And, um, this week I've received an acceptance letter from Med school!" More surprise.
"And you didn't tell me!" Rocky said, mock-pouting. Adam stuck his tongue out at him.
"I'm starting in January," he said. "So that means I'll then have to cut down the number of classes I'm teaching at the Dojo."
Jason nodded. "No problem."
"That's so great!" Kim said, throwing her arms around Adam and kissing him.
Kat and Aisha disappeared in the kitchen and came back with the cans of soda they had stacked in the refrigerator earlier. "Well, it seems our lives are finally settling," Kat said, passing the drinks around.
"Yeah, it's like a new beginning," Adam said, his arm around Kim.
They all looked at each other, then, as one, brought their drinks together in a toast.
"To new beginnings!"