AN: Yet another part from the mother of all chapters. Enjoy.
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"We're going to have a baby?" Tommy asked. Without warning, he grabbed Kimberly in a hug and lifted her off the ground. He gave a loud joyful laugh as he spun her around, almost the same way he did the first time they kissed and she agreed to go to the dance with him, and much like then, Kimberly giggled. Tommy set her down.
"Are you…..Okay with this?" She asked.
"Are you kidding? I'm more then okay!" He said. He paused. "You thought I'd react the same way Anton did?" He asked. Kimberly sighed.
"It's just.." Her voice trailed off.
"No, no, I understand." Tommy said. "Anton hurt you. But, I have absolutely no intention of ever hurting you." He said. Kimberly smiled as tears of happiness filled her eyes. She wiped at them.
"Are you sure you want to tell the others about everything now? I mean, if you want to wait, I ca-" She began.
"Kim, I'm ready." He said. He took her hand and led her back to the others. Everyone saw the happy expressions they both held.
"What's going on?" Kira asked.
"Well, guys, uh, I thought I just had one announcement to make, but apparently I….Well, we….have two." He said. They all waited for them to continue. "First," he said. He bent down on one knee and took a box out of his pocket. Everyone, including Kimberly, gave a collective gasp.
"Tommy, what are you doing?" She whispered. She didn't understand why he was proposing if she had said yes two weeks ago.
"Asking you to marry me the proper way." He said, smiling up at her. He took the box in both hands and opened it, displaying a ring to her. Kimberly felt more tears in her eyes at how beautiful the ring was. It had a platinum band and the diamond was a good size pear shaped jewel with small pick jewel on either side of it. "Kimberly Ann Hart, will you marry me?" He asked. Kimberly covered her mouth, overcome by her tears and quickly nodded. Tommy smiled and took the ring out. He took her left hand and slid the ring on her finger. Tommy stood up and the two hugged. Everyone else clapped and said their congratulations. Trini jumped up from her spot on the ground and ran to them. Tommy smiled and picked her up.
"You're going to get married?" Trini asked them. They both nodded.
"And that's not all." Kimberly said, wiping at her tears again. "You're going to have a little brother or sister." She said. Everyone stared at her even more at that.
"Wait, are you saying…..You're…." Conner began to say.
"Pregnant?" Ethan finished. Kimberly nodded. Haley got up and grabbed Kimberly into a hug.
"Oh my gosh, congratulations." She said. Kimberly returned the hug. Trini looked at Tommy.
"My mommy's going to have a baby?" She asked. Tommy nodded.
"Yeah, what do you think of that?" He asked. Trini gave a wide smile and hugged Tommy.
"You're gonna have to learn how to change diapers, daddy." She said. Tommy chuckled. The rest of the afternoon was spent talking about the marriage and the baby. Haley told Kimberly that the newsstand by Cyberspace had a lot of wedding magazines and that was enough to get Kimberly up and suggesting they go get them. Naomi and Kira decided to go with them, taking Trini along as well, leaving the males to cleanup the picnic.
"So, Dr. O, this wedding, is it going to be like meca of former rangers?" Conner asked as he put some paper plates in a garbage bag. Tommy rolled his eyes.
"It might, but I do hope that's not all you think of it as." Tommy said.
"Of course not." Conner said.
"So, any idea who you might want as your best man?" Ethan asked. Tommy sighed. Whenever he thought about getting married, he always imagined Kimberly as his bride, Trini as the maid of honor and Jason as his best man. Jason was still in his coma and Trini was deceased. Well, he thought bitterly. One out of three ain't bad.
"I don't know yet." He said. "I mean, there's a lot to choose from."
"May I suggest one of your two favorite students? Possibly one who has the tendency to wear red?" Conner joked. Tommy laughed.
"You both are in the running, but I've got to think about it." He said.
"Cool." Both guys said.
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After the ladies picked up some magazines, they went to sit in Cyberspace as they looked through the magazines.
"So, Dr. Hart, who's going to be your maid of honor?" Naomi asked as she flipped through one of the magazines. Kimberly looked up from the dress she was looking at.
"I'm not sure yet. I might get Dana……..Or Aisha, if she can get here from Africa. I mean, I wish I could get the one person who's known me the longest and was there for me for so long."
"You mean your friend, Trini?" Haley asked. Kimberly nodded. She looked at Trini who was off sitting by the TV watching cartoons.
"Wasn't she the original yellow ranger?" Kira asked. Again, Kimberly nodded.
"She died in a car accident a few years ago." Kimberly said, looking down. Naomi and Kira each put a hand on one of hers.
"I'm sorry." Kira said. Kimberly gave them both a smile.
"It's okay. I mean, wherever she is, I'm sure she's happy." She said. She cleared her throat. "Mmm, what do you guys think of something like this for bridesmaid dresses?" She asked showing them a picture of a long strapless dress that hugged the torso of the model in the picture. "I'm thinking of having like an assortment of colors, you know? Not just pick some color and make them wear it even if it's a color that would make 'em puke." She laughed.
"That's a cool idea." Naomi said.
"Yeah." Haley said. Kimberly looked at Haley.
"So, what color would you wear?" She asked. Haley looked back at her.
"You want me to be a bridesmaid?" She asked, a little surprised. "Why?"
"Well, you're one of Tommy's best friends, and you've been a good friend to me. So, what do you say?" She asked. Haley smiled.
"Hmm, I don't know, maybe something in violet." She said. Kimberly smiled.
"That's a good color." She said.
"So, who are you planning on inviting?" Kira asked.
"You mean, what former rangers do I plan on inviting?" Kimberly asked in a teasing tone. Kira smiled.
"OK, so the idea of meeting some rangers is kinda cool." Kira admitted. Kimberly laughed.
"Well, I'm going to try and get Aisha, again only if she can come into the country, she was the second yellow ranger and Zach, the original black ranger, if he's not busy with the show."
"What show?" Naomi asked.
"He's in this touring production of Rent. He's playing Benny."
"Wow." Kira said.
"Let's see…..I think the last I heard Rocky, the second red ranger, was in Africa with Aisha……Adam's in New York with Tanya, he's the 2nd black ranger and she's the third yellow ranger……."
"You guys sure went through a lot of yellow rangers." Kira commented. The others all laughed.
"Didn't you guys have an original blue ranger?" Naomi asked.
"Yeah, but he's kind of……..Not on this planet the last time I heard."
"What, is he an astronaut?" Kira asked.
"Uh no, he's living on this planet called Aquitar."
"Whoa. Okay, I know being a power ranger entails a lot of weird and not so normal things, but…..wow….." Kira said.
"Yeah." Kimberly said.
"Are you going to invite Kat?" Haley asked. She knew so much about the former rangers because when she and Tommy met, he would always talk about his old friends.
"She's the one who replaced you, right?" Kira asked Kimberly. She nodded.
"Yes. And…I don't know. I mean the last time I saw her she and Tommy were together, it would be kind of weird. I mean, if Tommy wants, he can invite her."
"I wonder how you guys are going to break down 'bride's side' and 'groom's side' when it comes to the seating." Naomi said. Kimberly thought about it a second.
"Your right, that's going to be a little hard, I mean, if Tommy invited Tanya, Justin, and all the other ranger's he knows, then they'd go on the groom's side, I guess. But the others….I guess we'll have to flip a coin." She joked. She sighed.
"What's wrong?" Haley asked.
"I just………There's one person I want to be there and I know Tommy would most likely want as his best man but…..He's not…….." She sighed. "It's our friend Jason, the original red ranger, he's been in a coma for two years and I don't know when he'll wake up and I just.." She felt tears filling her eyes. Haley put an arm around her.
"I'm sure Jason will be fine. I'll bet you that he'll be awake and ready to stand by Tommy on your wedding day." Haley said. Kimberly smiled at Haley.
"Thanks." She said. She wiped at her tears. "God I'm so emotional today." She said with a laugh.
"Well, you're pregnant and are engaged, you're allowed to be emotional." Haley said. Kimberly laughed again. "So, I have a suggestion, let's put aside the wedding talk and just have ourselves some good old fashion girl talk?" Haley said, wanting to make Kimberly get her mind off of Jason so she'd feel better.
"Okay." Kimberly said. "So, Naomi, how are things with Ethan?" She asked. Haley and Kira both looked at Naomi, who blanched.
"Uh……What do you mean? There are no 'things' between me and Ethan." Naomi stammered. Kimberly gave her an odd look, and then she realized that Naomi hadn't told the others about her and Ethan yet.
"I guess you're right, sorry, my mistake." She said.
"Yeah, I mean, it's pretty easy to mistake you guys as more then just friends." Haley said, remembering how they were sitting on the couch watching T.V. that day. Naomi sighed.
"All right, all right, we've sorta been kissing…………a lot…….." Naomi admitted, causing Haley and Kira's eyes to go wide.
"Since when?" Kira asked.
"Well, you remember the night Conner woke up? We had our first kiss like 20 minutes before you called his cell phone and when you did call him we were about to go into our fourth."
"And how many has it been since then?" Haley asked jokingly. Naomi groaned and put her head down.
"So are you guys a couple?" Kira asked.
"No…….I mean……Not yet…………I don't know………We're in that phase right now where all we do is suck face…..Which, of course isn't a bad thing." Naomi said. Kimberly laughed, knowing what she meant.
"When Tommy and I were in high school and we first started dating, there was a week where all we would do is make-out. There was this one time when we were trying to sort of find a place where no one would find us so we wouldn't be bugged, we went to the zord bay." She laughed a little at the memory. "Well, about five minutes into it, Billy and Alpha walk in to do some repairs on one of the zords, and they caught us." She laughed. "Billy's face was so red and Alpha just kept muttering 'ay-yi-yi-yi-yi.'." She said, imitating the small robot. The others laughed.
"Conner and I didn't have the 'all we do is kiss' phase." Kira said.
"And what do you call what you two were doing when we came into his hospital room that night?" Naomi snickered.
"Oh come on. My boyfriend just woke up from a coma, what'd you expect?" Kira said. "Anyway, I mean, yeah we do do a lot of kissing, but we always talk and stuff."
"Ethan and I talk.." Naomi said. She paused, realizing that they hadn't really done much of it as of late. She frowned. "Sometimes." She muttered. She sighed. "I don't know, maybe I'm just trying to figure out how I feel before I put a label on us."
"Man and I thought it was usually the guy who was afraid of labels." Haley joked. Naomi sighed.
"I mean, Ethan told me he loves me, and……Yeah I like him a lot, but I'd feel weird being in a relationship if I wasn't sure I loved him to."
"Well, Conner told me he loved me long before I said it back. Just because he said it shouldn't mean you should feel compelled to know exactly how you feel that very moment."
"I guess you're right. I just……Want to be sure." Naomi said. "Can we please talk about someone else's love life?" She asked. The others laughed at her expense. After a while, the guys walked into Cyberspace. Trini saw Tommy come in and excitedly got up and ran to him. Tommy gave her a hug. He went and sat beside Kimberly and pulled Trini onto his lap. Conner sat next to Kira and Ethan sat between Naomi and Haley.
"So, ladies, what have you all been up to?" Ethan asked. Haley and Kira looked at Naomi, then back at Ethan and tried their bests to hold in laughs, only to fail miserably.
"Excuse us." Haley said. She and Kira stumbled outside.
"What was that?" Conner asked. Naomi groaned.
"Nothing." She said. "Inside joke." Ethan frowned. He had a feeling what it is they had been laughing about and it gave him a bad feeling.
"Hey, I just remembered, I was supposed to meet up with my brother and sister at the mall. I've got to go." Ethan said, getting up. He quickly left. Naomi sighed. She got up and followed Ethan. Naomi sidestepped Kira and Haley as they came back into Cyberspace and ran after Ethan.
"Ethan, wait." She said. Ethan sighed and turned to her.
"So, is this all some sort of joke to you?" He asked. Naomi shook her head.
"No, no, nothing like that."
"Right." Ethan said, not believing her.
"Look, Dr. Hart said something about you and I, Haley and Kira sort of got me to talk about it."
"…….It…….." Ethan said.
"Stop it." Naomi said. "Kira and Haley weren't laughing at you, they were laughing at me because I was being like kind of pathetic and whiny and stuff." She sighed. Ethan looked at her.
"Oh.." He said. He looked down and then back up at her. "I'm sorry. I guess this whole hiding thing and not really having a total idea of what we are is making me a little insecure." Naomi walked closer to him.
"I'm sorry. I know I'm not being fair, I just…"
"No, it's okay. I understand…….Or well, okay; I'll continue to pretend to understand." He joked. Naomi gave him a smile and they kissed.
"So, do you want to go back inside?" She asked.
"Actually, I wasn't just trying to make an exit when I said I had to go. My siblings and I are buying our aunt a present from all of us and I need to meet up with them." He said. "You can come with me, if you want." He said.
"I wouldn't want to intrude on a family thing."
"Oh, trust me, buying a present for this woman is torture, we're all just getting her something together so we don't need to spend money individually on her." He said. Naomi smiled.
"Okay." She said. Ethan and Naomi held hands as they walked to the mall. "So, you guys don't like your aunt?" Naomi asked. Ethan shook her head.
"She has the tendency to be a crotchety old bitch…Minus the old part." He laughed. "When Grace, my sister got pregnant, she made this huge thing about it and tried to bad mouth her to all our other relatives."
"So, why do you even bother?" Naomi asked. Ethan grinned.
"To make her feel bad about not bothering with us." He said. They soon reached the mall. As soon as they walked into the food court, a small light skinned African American child with slanted eyes latched himself to Ethan's legs.
"Uncwle Efan!" The child yelled through his lisp. Ethan laughed and bent down. He picked up the child.
"Hey, Marcus, where's your mom?" He asked. Marcus pointed to one of the tables where an African American woman who looked to be in her very early twenties sat. She gave Ethan a wave. Ethan smiled. He looked at Naomi. "Come on." He said. Naomi followed Ethan as he carried Marcus over to the table. The woman stood up. Ethan set Marcus down. "Hey, Grace." He said, giving her a half hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Hey, lil' bro." She said, giving him a kiss back.
"Where's Derek?" Ethan asked. Grace rolled her eyes.
"We ran into some girls who, according to him, are in his Ethics class, so of course, he took the time to flirt with them." She said.
"Oh. Oh, hey, sorry, almost forgot." He took Naomi's hand and brought her closer to the table. "Grace, this is Naomi, Naomi this is my older sister Grace and my nephew Marcus." He said, introducing them.
"It's nice to meet you." Naomi said to Grace. Grace smiled.
"So, you're the girl my brother seemed to talk about endlessly during Sunday dinners, huh?" She said. Naomi's cheeks turned crimson.
"Grace!" Ethan hissed. Grace gave a short laugh. She then saw someone coming towards them.
"Ah, there's our lecherous brother now." She said. Ethan and Naomi turned to see a tall, slightly muscular guy who looked like he was in college walking over to them.
"Baby bro." Derek said, slapping Ethan five. Ethan smiled.
"So, get their numbers?" Ethan asked, referring to the girls he must've been flirting with.
"Always man, always." He said. He bent down and picked up Marcus. "Hey, little man." He said. He looked at Naomi. "Who's she?" He asked his siblings.
"I'm-" Naomi began to answer.
"She's the famous Naomi." Grace said.
"Ah, Naomi." Derek said. He set Marcus down. "It looks like my baby bro's got good taste." He put an arm around Naomi. She laughed softly, a little nervous by the attention. Ethan sighed. He pushed Derek's arm off of Naomi.
"Would you quit calling me 'baby bro'? For Pete's sakes, you're just three years older then me." He said. "Besides, Naomi's-"
"I bet you say that to all of Ethan's girlfriends." Naomi said to Derek. Ethan looked at her. She simply gave him a smile.
"Anyway, let's go and get Aunt Maureen a gift. This year, I think we should get her rat poison." Derek said.
"Der, you and I both know Aunt Maureen keeps her house immaculate, she doesn't have any rats." Grace said as she picked up her son. The three siblings and Naomi left the food court.
"Who said it was for the rats?" Derek asked. Grace and Ethan rolled their eyes and Naomi laughed. "Ah, my comedic stylings are not lost on all of you. Ethan, I like her." Derek said. Naomi took Ethan's hand. The five of them drifted from store to store. Marcus was happily being carried by his mother without a care in the world while Naomi just followed the others as they discussed what to get their aunt. At one point, Grace and Derek went to look at something, leaving Naomi and Ethan alone. Ethan looked at Naomi.
"You didn't have to lie to them, I mean; we could've just said we're friends." Ethan said. He looked through a rack of birthday cards.
"I wasn't lying." Naomi said. "Talking to Kira earlier and now you feeling totally cool about me meeting your family, well, some of your family, kind of helped me figure it all out." She saw a card and handed it to Ethan. "How's this one?" Ethan looked at it. He put it back.
"Too 'I love my auntie'. We kind of go for civil, but not overly loving." Ethan said. "Anyway, figure what out?" Ethan asked.
"Well, you said you loved me, and I thought that I should know if I felt that way before we officially became a couple."
"So, you're still not sure?"
"No, but we don't have to hide and sneak around it anymore." She said. "I want to sit with you like Kira and Conner were sitting in the park today. I want to walk down the halls in school with you hand in hand; I want to meet your parents."
"Whoa, whoa, back up." Ethan laughed. He set a card he had picked up down and looked at her. "I get it." He cupped her face. "So, we're a couple now?"
"Yeah."
"So, kissing in public is okay?" He asked. Naomi simply grinned. Ethan leaned in and was about to kiss her when the sound of Grace clearing her throat was heard. Ethan turned to see Grace there holding Marcus.
"Find a card?" She asked.
"No, not yet." Ethan said sheepishly.
"Derek kept talking about the girls he ran into so I just told him to give me some money and go after them." She said. "So it's just down to us. I'm thinking maybe a blouse would work for her present, so how about you," she said, coming over to Ethan and handing him Marcus. "Stay here with your nephew and find a card." She said. She went and took Naomi's hand. "And Naomi and I will find something for Aunt Maureen, so now you won't get distracted." She smirked. Ethan gave her a mean look.
"Ha ha, very funny." Ethan said. Grace smiled and led Naomi out of the store and into a woman's clothing store. The two of them walked around the store.
"So, how long have you and Ethan been together?" Grace asked as she looked through a rack of blouses.
"About two weeks." Naomi said.
"Have you guys had to deal with the issues?" She asked. Naomi looked at her.
"What issues?"
"You know, the whole race thing." She said. Naomi stared at her blankly. "Sweetie, I married a Korean guy, I know about the issues."
"Well, no….I mean, we haven't really been too public about it since today. But I really don't think people would make a stink about it."
"Why do you think we're not clamoring to buy our aunt the most expensive gift?" Grace asked. "When she found out I was marrying an Asian guy, and having a baby by him, she went ballistic."
"I thought it was just because you were young when it happened."
"Trust me, if I had gotten pregnant by some black guy, she wouldn't have said boo." Grace spat out. "I was 19 when I got pregnant with Marcus. My parents didn't particularly like the fact that it was going to interfere with college, but they like Elvin. They were happy that Elvin joined our little crazy family and happy I was happy. But Aunt Maureen, all she cared about was that I was going to have a 'yellow' baby."
"I'm sorry." Naomi said. Grace shook her head.
"I'm just telling you this because not everyone's going to like the fact you're together. I mean sure, we're in the 21st centaury and one would think no one would give a crap about what color skin people have, but the whole bi-racial thing still rattles some chains."
"Are you one of those folks who don't like it?" Naomi asked carefully. Grace looked at her.
"Honey, I wouldn't care if you were green with pink polka-dots and had a third eye. Ethan likes you a lot. He's happy. That's all that matters." She said. Naomi smiled.
"I like him a lot too." She said.
"Now, if you hurt my brother in anyway, then we'll have issues." Grace warned.
"Well, it's a good thing that I have no intention of hurting him, isn't it?" Naomi said. Grace smiled.
"So, during one of m brother's many declarations of the greatness of Naomi, he mentioned you went to an all girl's boarding school." Grace said. "Is Ethan your first boyfriend?"
"Well, no, not exactly." Naomi said. "He's my second. I dated this one guy for a little bit, but I don't know if it counts."
"And why's that?" Grace asked. Naomi chose her words carefully, so no element of Ethan's alter ego came out.
"The guy was a jerk. I didn't like him a whole lot and he was still hung up on this girl he was obsessed with. He had some problems."
"Ah, so it didn't count." Grace said. "According to the dating handbook, if the guy's a jerk, it doesn't count." She said. Naomi laughed.
"Ethan said that to me after I broke up with the other guy."
"And how long was it until you and Ethan hooked up?" Grace asked.
"Uh…….Two days…" Naomi said. Grace laughed.
"Saw a winner right away, huh?" Grace said. Naomi nodded.
"Hey, why don't you get your aunt a gift certificate? Let her pick her own gift."
"Oh we would so do that, except our parents strictly said no gift certificates. We're supposed to put some thought into it." Grace groaned. Naomi saw a display of jewelry.
"How about earrings or a bracelet?" She asked. Grace looked over to the display.
"Hmm, that might work." She said. They both walked over to the display and looked over the selections.
"So, when you and Elvin are together, do people give you strange looks or something?" Naomi asked.
"Sometimes." Grace said.
"So, how do you deal with it? I mean, just so I know, in case-"
"In case you've got to deal with it?" Grace said. Naomi nodded. Grace smiled. "Good to hear you're not planning on dropping Ethan at the first sign of trouble." She complimented. "Anyway, just ignore the stares and whispers. If any little white girls try to get in your face about it, just tell them their jealous that you can find out first hand about the myth on black men." Grace grinned. Naomi's eyes widened.
"No, no, we haven't….."
"Oh, I know that. But that line will most likely shut them up for a while, long enough to give you a graceful exit."
"Oh." Naomi said. She paused. "How do you know we haven't?"
"Because you're his first girlfriend, and you've been together for just two weeks."
"I'm his first? I would've thought he-"
"No. Actually, up until this year, he was a kind of shy guy, you know, mostly kept to himself. Then he started hanging out with this guy and girl from school…. and Kira I think, and he started coming out of his shell a bit."
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Naomi asked. "Conner's kind of a popular guy. Probably pretty close to the whole 'big man on campus' idea. Conner has the ability to make anyone be less shy. Actually, when I met the three of them and started hanging out with them, I became the more outgoing person you see today." Naomi said.
"Well, that's great." Grace said. She saw a pair of small earrings. The jewels looked like diamonds, but the price certainly said otherwise. "How are these?"
"They look deceivingly a lot like diamonds." Naomi said.
"And most likely aren't even cubic zirconium." Grace said. "They're perfect. Fake, just like her." Grace said. "Sorry, did that sound bitter?"
"Just a little." Naomi said. "But it's okay." She said. Grace smiled. She picked up the earrings and they went to the cash register and paid for the earrings. They then went off to find Ethan. They found him sitting on a bench with Marcus. Marcus was busy licking an ice cream, with most of it on him.
"Ethan!" Grace groaned, going over to them. "What did I tell you about giving this boy ice cream?" She scolded.
"Sorry, he begged and pleaded, and I couldn't say no." Ethan said. Grace rolled her eyes.
"And you wonder why you're his favorite uncle." She said. She took the cone from Marcus sticky hands. She held it with the tips of her fingers and dumped it in the nearby trashcan.
"Mommy, I not finished."
"Oh, don't start with me, buddy. I told you you couldn't have ice cream, and what do you do? Beg your uncle." She took his hand. "Naomi, can you hold this while I go clean up the monster?" She said.
"Sure." Naomi said. Grace handed her the bag with the earrings in it.
"Thanks." She said. Grace then walked to the ladies room, dragging Marcus behind her. Naomi went and sat beside Ethan.
"Push over." Naomi teased. Ethan groaned.
"Yes, but you already knew that."
"True."
"So, what did you and Grace talk about in the store? Or should I say, what did she say about me?" Ethan asked. Naomi laughed.
"Nothing. We just talked about stuff."
"What stuff?"
"Girl stuff." Naomi said.
"Oh." Ethan said. "So, what did Grace end up getting for our aunt?"
"Fake diamond earrings." Naomi said. Ethan laughed.
"How fake?"
"Well, let's just say the price was two digits. A not to high two digits." Naomi said. Ethan laughed again. "So, did your brother go off with those girls?"
"I think so. I haven't seen him." Ethan said. After a few minutes, Grace returned with a now cleaned up Marcus. She walked over to them.
"So, did you get the card?" She asked Ethan. He nodded and handed the bag with her in it to her.
"I signed it too. So you just need to track down Derek and get him to sign."
"I'll do it later. I need to get home to cook dinner." She said. "You guys need a ride?" She asked.
"No, we're fine." Ethan said. Naomi handed her the bag with the earrings in it. "Oh hey, you know dinner tomorrow's cancelled because mom and dad are doing one of their middle-aged date things, right?" Ethan asked. Grace laughed. She looked at Naomi.
"Our dad got tickets to some concert and they're going to it and having dinner together. Yes, Ethan, I know. Tell mom and dad I hope they have fun." She said. "Come on, Marcus." She said as the two left leaving Ethan and Naomi.
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Little did the others know that the past two weeks of peace and quiet was just time for Mesogog and his minions to formulate their next attack. The gem's effect on Trent had gone on, making him into a wild and crazed animal that they had to keep him under lock and key in a cage.
"Where all animals belong." Mesogog had said when they first threw the boy in there. He had watched the goings ons of the rangers and those close to them. He saw that Kimberly was now engaged and having Tommy's child. The very thought of his daughter slipping further and further out of his reach angered him to the point that he'd rather have her dead then see the black ranger as her father. He smirked at that thought. Without Trini, or Kimberly, or Naomi, for that matter, the rangers emotions would take over and they would be too grief stricken to fight, thereby making it more then easy for Mesogog to bring on his dream of reverting the world to the time of the dinosaurs. All the planning for the attack took days, and they were now close to the end of putting it all together. "Elsa." Mesogog called. Elsa slowly walked to him.
"Yes, my lord?" She asked.
"Are all the preparations complete?" He asked.
"Yes, master." She said, grinning like a Cheshire cat. She put her hands on his shoulders. She leaned in and kissed and nipped at his jaw line. "Master, if I may, could we-" She began. Mesogog took her chin in his hand.
"Not now." He said. "I want to taste my victory first. Then we can celebrate." He said. He let her go and walked off. "Leave me." He said. Elsa bowed respectfully and turned to leave. Mesogog watched her. "On second thought," he said, making Elsa stop. "Come to my chambers tonight. We will execute our plan tomorrow." He said. Elsa smiled wickedly.
"Yes, master." She said as she left.