Title: You're a What?

Series: Winter Tidings

Author: Jmaria

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or Power Rangers DinoThunder

Summary: Willow just met a very interesting high school teacher.

Pairing: FfA# 1704 Willow/Dr. Tommy Oliver (Power Rangers DinoThunder)

Note: I so blame Power Rangers Generations for this one. (I have also never seen DinoThunder, as my nephew stopped watching the show when Time Force was wrapping up - I'm just using Tommy.)

You're a What?

Willow clutched the stack of papers in her arms as she made her way down the hallway. Reefside High reminded her a lot of Sunnydale High. She smiled at the students who passed her, anxious to find the computer lab that would be solely hers. She must not have been paying attention because next the thing she knew she was face to chest with a tall spiky-haired man.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I should have been looking and I'm not, and well -" She started babbling. And none of the Scoobies were there to stop her.

"Hey, it's ok." He smiled at her. She felt herself blush. "I'm Tommy Oliver."

"You're a student? Wow." Willow blinked. Tommy chuckled.

"No, Dr. Tommy Oliver. I teach science here."

"Oh, cuz I was gonna say you look really old for a student. Not that you're old old, but you're older looking than the rest of the teenyboppers. And I'm babbling."

"Nice to meet you, Babbling." Tommy grinned.

"What? No, I'm Willow Rosenberg. I'm here to teach computer sciences."

"The computer lab's right over this way." Tommy said, leading her down the hall. "So have you been teaching long?"

"No. Well, not really. I taught this class my junior year in high school." When he stared at her with a look of awe, she blushed. "I, well I was only filling in. Our teacher got killed so someone had to take over, and the school board was really cheap and they didn't want to hire someone new, so I kinda sorta got a mandatory volunteer position from my principal. But it was only for the end of the semester and there were detailed lesson plans at my disposal, Miss Calendar already had them done up." Willow paused to take a breath.

"Willow, may I call you Willow?" Tommy asked.

"Uh-huh." Willow said weakly.

"Take a deep breath. It's okay, you don't have to explain." Tommy grinned. "I bet you're good at programming and stuff like that, right?"

"Yeah. . " She said slowly.

"Then you're going to really hit it off with Ethan."

"Ethan?"

"Ethan James, he's one of my students. He's completely into all of that kind of stuff." He said as they turned into the computer lab.

"Hey, Dr. Oliver. I was just coming to see you about the Dino -" Ethan started, not seeing the red-head behind him. "The dinosaur project, for Biology. You know, that blue and black one we were talking about earlier."

"Ethan, this is the new computer sciences teacher, Ms. Rosenberg." Tommy said pointedly, before grinning again.

"Blue and black? I don't think I've heard of a blue and black dinosaur." Willow said, noticing that Ethan and Tommy had the same looks the Scoobies and Giles used to get when they were talking about vampires and demons in public. Something smelled fishy.

"Do you smell that?" Ethan said, covering his nose.

"Eew, it smells like rotting fish." Willow said crinkling her nose up.

That was when the horrified screaming started. Outside Reefside High, students were being turned into fish by - a huge fish-like demon? Willow groaned as she was tugged down one of the hallways by Tommy and Ethan. She'd tried to ask Tommy if this happened a lot but when she'd turned to ask him, both he and Ethan had mysteriously vanished. Oh yeah, like that wasn't just funky.

"What's going on?" Willow cried as she stopped a student who was running past her.

"A monster's attacking the city!"

"Great."

Willow stalked out the double doors. The fishy-looking demon stood over a group of teenagers who cowered against the building. Before he got the chance to try and turn them into fish, Willow sprang in front of them.

"Caerimonia, Minerva, saepio impedimentum." She muttered under her breath.

Whatever it tried hurl at them bounced off the protective shield the witch had cast. She glanced back at the students for just a second.

"Hey, get inside the building. Go, now!" Willow said through gritted teeth as she felt her power beginning to drain.

The terrified students nodded as they raced towards the building. Willow was running low, but the monster kept coming at her.

"That's what you get for sending a witch to do a slayer's job!" Willow groaned.

Just then, four figures dressed in bright shiny bodysuits raced up and started attacking the demon. Willow fell heavily to the ground. Blurs of red, blue, and yellow zipped past kicking and hitting it. Willow nearly screamed when the one dressed in black came up beside her.

"Are you all right?"

"Drained, but nifty." Willow joked. "Wait a second -"

"Black Ranger, we need some help over here." The yellow ranger yelled.

"You should get to safety." The Black Ranger said, before racing off to fight the demon.

Tommy raced into his classroom, hoping no one would notice his obvious departure. Sitting on his desk was the red-haired computer teacher. She smiled up at him.

"So, that monster attacking the city thing happen often around here?" Willow asked.

"It happens." Tommy shrugged.

"Do you always run off to fight the monsters, black ranger?" Willow hissed.

"I don't know, do you always throw up force fields?" Tommy shot back. "What are you exactly?"

"A witch, thank you very much."

"Those exist?"

"This coming from the guy who just battled a monster while wearing a very tight black costume?"

"You can't tell anyone."

"Please, I come from Sunnydale. We know how to keep secrets there." Willow rolled her eyes.

"Then I think this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Tommy grinned.