"I just don't know what to do, Tommy.."
It had been a week since Jason had called the teacher's house and left a message with Kira. All he said was that he was coming to visit and when he had tried to call back he got an operators voice that told him the phone line had been disconnected. Now Jason and his sleeping daughter sat with Tommy in the black ranger's living room.
"It's ok, Jase. Everything is going to be alright," Oliver said gently, giving his old friend a comforting smile.
Jason sighed, holding his daughter close. "I know.." He whispered. "It's just that so many things seem to be going wrong in my life.."
"Like what?" Tommy questioned softly.
"I don't even know where to start..." Jason replied, letting loose a laugh that sounded slightly forced.
"I've heard that the best place to start is usually the beginning." Dr Oliver took a seat beside his friend, who sighed before beginning his tale...
"And I'm doing this why?"
"Because I said so, Alex." Hayley said, sounding slightly exasperated – as if she was on her last nerve. "You need to get out more and do something, rather than just sitting in your room all day long." She added, glancing over to her nephew.
"I happen to like doing nothing, thank you very much." Alex retorted, frowning and crossing his arms over his chest.
"And I happen not to care." Hayley replied, hoping that she didn't sound too mean.
Alex sighed, resisting an eye roll. "Fine." He finally said. "What do you want me to do?"
Hayley smiled, quite happy that she had gotten her way. "You can start with that table." She lifted her arm and pointed to a table not too far away, where a young man and woman sat. Alex nodded, mentally noting their presence – having noticed them there, at the café, numerous times in the past week. "Then you take their order and give it to Trent," Hayley continued.
"Trent?" Alex questioned, looking confused.
"Yes, Trent." Hayley repeated, frowning. "You know that you can't keep this up forever, Alex."
"Just watch me." The boy retorted, eyes narrowing slightly as Trent walked up to them. "Speak of the Devil.." He muttered.
"What?" Trent asked, frowning in confusion.
"Nothing, Trent." Hayley said, giving him a smile. "What's up?"
"Oh, right. Nothing, I just wanted to come and tell you that I was gonna head on home now." Trent replied, nodding to the clock, which was signalling the end of his shift.
Hayley nodded, smiling. "Thanks, Trent. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye, Hayley. Bye, Alex." Trent said, giving Alex a small smile. He truly was sorry for their fight earlier and was hoping to patch things up with the younger boy.
"Bye," Hayley and Alex chorused, in a forced tone on Alex's part.
The second Trent had disappeared out of the door Alex laughed, turning to look at Hayley with a smug grin. "Ha! Now I don't have to work with him."
"For now," Hayley reminded her nephew, gently pushing him off of his stool and off towards the table.
Jason sighed softly, gazing up at his old friend. When he had said that things were going wrong in his life he hadn't been kidding. Things had begun getting bad when he was laid off at his job. After that his babysitter quit for she was moving to a small town in Nevada, leaving him to both look for a new job and take care of his daughter, Julie. Unfortunatly on one of their days out job hunting the house had caught fire and burned to the ground – leaving them both homeless.
"I'm really sorry about this, Tommy.." The former red ranger began softly. "It's just that nothing's been going right and I didn't know who else to turn to.."
Tommy smiled down at his old friend. "You did the right thing, Jase. You know that you and Julie are alwaus welcomed here..." He paused a moment to think. "Hey Jason, ever thought about moving to Reefside?" He asked, half-doubting himself.
"What?" Jason asked with a laugh, looking at his best friend as if he were crazy.
"Why not? I have four empty guest rooms with no guests! There empty now but it's about time that they were put to use. You can take one and Julie can take another." Tom offered with a bright smile.
Jason shook his head, grinning. "You're a crazy man, Dr. Oliver."
"And proud of it." Tommy said with a chuckle. "What do you say?"
Jason sighed and nodded. "We'll take it. Though just until I can find a place of my own."
Oliver smiled over at his friend. "You stay as long as you need to, Jason."
The former red smiled, shaking his head happily. "You know you're the best friend a guy could ask for."
"I know," Tommy replied with a mockingly cocky grin. "But I always love hearing it." He rose to his feet as Jason laughed, motioning for his friend to do the same. "There's one last thing that I'll need to show you if you're going to be living here..."
"What is it?" Jason asked, eyes sparkling with innocent curiosity. He trusted the other man with his life, though it was hard to tell with Tommy. You never knew what was up his sleeve – he was in a class of his own.
Dr. Oliver sighed, walking over to the dinosaur in the wall. "Follow me.." He said, hoping that he wasn't making a mistake....
"Thank you, Mrs. McKnight." Kelly said softly as her friend's mother led her into Connor's bedroom.
"No problem, Kelly." The woman said kindly to the young girl before looking over to her son. "You if you need anything I'll be downstairs." She added before leaving the room.
The rangers had all agreed to meet up at Connor's house – before they went to Dr Oliver for training. Kelly was the last to arrive. She closed the door quietly behind Connor's mother before turning and giving the room and her friend's a once over.
"Hey everybody." She said with a smile.
"Hey, Kell." The group said in unison, before looking at each other and laughing.
Kelly smiled, moving and taking a seat on the floor beside Trent. "What's up?" She asked as she glanced up to Connor. He was laying out on his bed, ontop of the covers with his cast still on his leg. She smiled as she noticed that he looked a bit better than the last time she had seen him.
"Well," Trent began, causing the group's eyes to move to him. "Alex still hates me."
"You just met him," Kira said with a smile. "How can he hate you?" She leaned back in the beanbag she was sitting on, looking out at all of them. It was strange, for she was the farthest away from Connor – when she usually was the closest to him. Though no one mentioned anything.
"He hated him since the day they met," Ethan explained, pushing off of the floor, causing the chair that he was in to spin slowly around. "They got into a fight at the airport – made a huge scene and everything."
"Really?" Connor asked with avid interest, sitting up slightly.
"I didn't want to fight him.." Trent said, looking over at the dark red walls rather than any of his friend's faces. "I still don't.."
Kelly gave him a warm smile, placing a gentle hand on his arm. "It'll be ok, Trent. Things'll get better, you'll see...he's just hurting now, that's all.."
Trent sighed and nodded. "I hope soe.."
"Connor? Ethan? Anything to add?" Kira asked, glancing to her watch. When both shook their heads 'no', she looked to Kelly, who smiled.
"I actually found out some stuff about Kimberly.." The dark haired girl said softly, easily gaining the attention of her team mates. She smiled, brushing a strand of hair from her face before continuing. "Well, remember last week? When we were at Dr. O's?" She asked, looking to Kira and Connor who both nodded. "I was working on some homework, on his computer. And when I went to save it I noticed a folder titled 'My Past'...I couldn't help but open it.." She added, a light blush coming into her cheeks.
"Go on." Ethan said, leaning forward.
"Alright, well, I opened it up and there were about fifteen more folders inside – each labled with a person's name. I opened some of them to try and figure out what they were, turns out they were titled with the names of old rangers and inside of each folder was pictures, articles and emails..I looked around a bit and found one that said 'Kimberly Hart' on it...I opened it and inside were a ton of pictures and a lot of articles. Though there weren't any e-mails...I went through them all and learned a bit about this mysterious person who Dr. O seems to love so much."
"Is she still hot?" Connor asked eagerly.
"Connor!" Kira scolded, throwing a pillow at him. It was one of the first actions that day that had been directed soley at Connor. She wasn't sure where they stood, for they hadn't spoken about the kiss. She truly did want to talk to him about it and she knew that it was nesecary if the relationship was going to progress at all. Though she was still nervous about what talking about it would mean.
The ranger laughed, smiling over at her. "Ouch, Kira, that hurt." He said with a grin. He was acting normal enough, he had no reason not to. Unlike Kira, he wasn't afraid of what was to come – he knew already that everything was going to be fine between them. "Well, is she Kelly?" He asked, looking back to his pink partner.
"Yes," Kelly answered with a laugh. "She's still very attractive."
"What else?" Trent asked curiously.
"Well.." Kelly began, pausing to think back. "She won a silver medal in the Pan Global Gymnastic Games, before she retired. She did acting for a while, in a movie and a few tv apperances. And in the most recent article, which was published about a month ago, she said that she was looking for a good place to set up a school for the arts to teach and promote gymnastics, karate, acting, music and writing."
"Wow.." Ethan whispered, smiling slightly as she finished. Kim did seem like a great person and he could easily see why Dr. Oliver fancied her.
"Did it mention where she lived?" Trent questioned softly.
Kelly nodded. "Yeah, it gave the name of a small town in Florida. I have it written down somewhere.."
"Great.." Trent said with a grin. "Now all we have to do is find a way to get her to come to Reefside.."
Connor nodded in agreement. "True. But first we need to get over to Dr O's place before we're late." He said, sitting up – eager to finally be able to get out of the house, even if he couldn't train with his friends.
Kira stood up and walked over, reaching out to help him up. Connor took it and gave her a smile, which she returned happily. Connor had been right, everything was ok...
"Welcome to Hayley's Cyberspace, can I take your order?" Alex said as he approached the table his aunt had pushed him towards.
"And you are?" The girl asked in a snotty tone, while the boy continued to fiddle with a cam-corder.
"Your worst nightmare.." Alex muttered with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" She raised a brow, not sure if she was imagining things or not.
"I said what would you like?" He forced on an overly false cheery smile, causing the boy to laugh.
The girl frowned, though accepted his answer. "I want an ice tea." she saidd, before looking to her partner.
"A virgin pina colada. Do excuse Cassidy," The boy added, giving Alex a small smile in apology for his concieted friend. "Mind if I ask for you name?"
"I'm Alex, Heyley's nephew." He said, scribbling down their orders.
"I'm Devin." The boy introduced polietly. "How old are you, Alex?"
"Fourteen." Alex said as he finished up writing and looked over at Devin.
"Freshman, right? Reefside High?" Devin asked.
"Yeah.." Alex frowned slightly as school as mentioned.
Devin grinned and nodded. "Guess I'll see you around school then."
Alex nodded, managing a small smile. "I'll be back with your drinks in a second. Nice meeting you, Devin." He said pointedly, grinning at the boy before walking away.
"Did he just-"Cassidy began, looking dumbfounded.
"Yes, he did, Cass." Devin said with a grin. "He did."
"Again, Tommy?" Jason asked with a laugh. "Doesn't it ever get old?"
Tommy laughed, a bit of colour coming into his cheeks. "I can't help it, you know I love it."
"I know. I know.." Jason grinned as he loked around. "Man..you take the whole 'Once a ranger, always a ranger' to a whole new level."
"Don't I know it." Dr. Oliver said with a laugh.
"Tommy.." Jason began, looking around the lab. "I know you're smart, but all this?"
"I told you, Jason. Hayley's a genius." A hint of pride sounded in his voice. "I think she may even be smarter than Billy."
"Smarter than Billy?" Jason looked back to his friend, brow raised in surprise.
Tommy nodded. "Well, she's a rocket scientist."
Jason grinned. "I have to meet her.."
A twinkle appeared in Dr O's dark eyes. "I'm sure that you guys will hit it off..."
"What's that supposed to mean, Oliver?" Jason asked, frowning slightly.
"I don't know." Tommy said, putting on an innocent smile.
Jason rolled his eyes and laughed, pausing to pick up a picture of the new ranger team. "They any good?" He asked teasingly.
Tommy smiled and nodded. "The team's pretty special. They all come from totally different words – most of them actually didn't like each other before they became rangers."
His friend laughed and nodded, continuing to gaze down at the picture. "Who's who?"
"Well..." Tommy began, moving over to study the picture. "That's Connor, in the red. We call him the "leader", even though it's more of a joint role. He's a soccer player. Then we have Kira – the yellow. She's a singer, has a band called 'The Cause'. She and Connor have something going on – no one knows what, but it's something. The computer genius in the group is Ethan, the blue ranger. Trent's the artist and I acutally used to work with his father. He and Kira used to date, they broke off and thankfully are still really good friends...The last is Trent's supposed new crush, Kelly – the pink and the writer of the group." He finished with a grin.
Jason smiled, taking one last look at the picture before setting it down. "They seem like a pretty special group.."
"They are.." Tommy said with a grin.
"It seems like that make up this big huge love triange.." The former red said with a laugh.
Tommy chuckled softly and nodded. "It's even bigger if you include all those that aren't rangers..." He said, pride twinkling in his eyes as he thought of his fellow rangers.
Jason smiled over at his old friend. "You really care about them don't you?" He asked softly.
Dr. Oliver, laughed softly and looked to the ground. "I do.." He said softly, looking back up to his friend.
"Daddy!" A little voice said as footsteps rushed towards the two. "Daddy, Uncle Tommy – the door! Someone's at the door." A little girl ran over quickly, stopping in front of them. Her blue eyes sparkled happily as she gazed around the room. "Uncle Tommy – can I play on the computer?" She asked, pulling gently on his shirt.
Tommy smiled, kneeling down and taking the little girl into his arms. "Later, Jules, I promise." He said as he stood, holding her gently. "For now, would you like to go and meet some kids that you can play with?"
"Yes." Julie said, nodding her head, brown pigtails bouncing as she did so.
The dark haired man laughed, heading up the stairs. "Great, let's go see them then.." He said, leading the way towards his front door...
AN: I'm done with the 5th chapter. I hope you guys like it. I haven't even posted the 4th chapter as I wrote this. So go and hit the review button now.
BN: smiles happily I haven't gotten a chapter done this fast in a while...I really did like this chapter. My all time favorite line was Jason's, "You take the whole 'Once a ranger, always a ranger' to a whole new level." That was just great on the author's part, I loved it and I hope you did too - Please review, it's greatly appriciated.
O and we still don't own Power Rangers......for now.
It had been a week since Jason had called the teacher's house and left a message with Kira. All he said was that he was coming to visit and when he had tried to call back he got an operators voice that told him the phone line had been disconnected. Now Jason and his sleeping daughter sat with Tommy in the black ranger's living room.
"It's ok, Jase. Everything is going to be alright," Oliver said gently, giving his old friend a comforting smile.
Jason sighed, holding his daughter close. "I know.." He whispered. "It's just that so many things seem to be going wrong in my life.."
"Like what?" Tommy questioned softly.
"I don't even know where to start..." Jason replied, letting loose a laugh that sounded slightly forced.
"I've heard that the best place to start is usually the beginning." Dr Oliver took a seat beside his friend, who sighed before beginning his tale...
"And I'm doing this why?"
"Because I said so, Alex." Hayley said, sounding slightly exasperated – as if she was on her last nerve. "You need to get out more and do something, rather than just sitting in your room all day long." She added, glancing over to her nephew.
"I happen to like doing nothing, thank you very much." Alex retorted, frowning and crossing his arms over his chest.
"And I happen not to care." Hayley replied, hoping that she didn't sound too mean.
Alex sighed, resisting an eye roll. "Fine." He finally said. "What do you want me to do?"
Hayley smiled, quite happy that she had gotten her way. "You can start with that table." She lifted her arm and pointed to a table not too far away, where a young man and woman sat. Alex nodded, mentally noting their presence – having noticed them there, at the café, numerous times in the past week. "Then you take their order and give it to Trent," Hayley continued.
"Trent?" Alex questioned, looking confused.
"Yes, Trent." Hayley repeated, frowning. "You know that you can't keep this up forever, Alex."
"Just watch me." The boy retorted, eyes narrowing slightly as Trent walked up to them. "Speak of the Devil.." He muttered.
"What?" Trent asked, frowning in confusion.
"Nothing, Trent." Hayley said, giving him a smile. "What's up?"
"Oh, right. Nothing, I just wanted to come and tell you that I was gonna head on home now." Trent replied, nodding to the clock, which was signalling the end of his shift.
Hayley nodded, smiling. "Thanks, Trent. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye, Hayley. Bye, Alex." Trent said, giving Alex a small smile. He truly was sorry for their fight earlier and was hoping to patch things up with the younger boy.
"Bye," Hayley and Alex chorused, in a forced tone on Alex's part.
The second Trent had disappeared out of the door Alex laughed, turning to look at Hayley with a smug grin. "Ha! Now I don't have to work with him."
"For now," Hayley reminded her nephew, gently pushing him off of his stool and off towards the table.
Jason sighed softly, gazing up at his old friend. When he had said that things were going wrong in his life he hadn't been kidding. Things had begun getting bad when he was laid off at his job. After that his babysitter quit for she was moving to a small town in Nevada, leaving him to both look for a new job and take care of his daughter, Julie. Unfortunatly on one of their days out job hunting the house had caught fire and burned to the ground – leaving them both homeless.
"I'm really sorry about this, Tommy.." The former red ranger began softly. "It's just that nothing's been going right and I didn't know who else to turn to.."
Tommy smiled down at his old friend. "You did the right thing, Jase. You know that you and Julie are alwaus welcomed here..." He paused a moment to think. "Hey Jason, ever thought about moving to Reefside?" He asked, half-doubting himself.
"What?" Jason asked with a laugh, looking at his best friend as if he were crazy.
"Why not? I have four empty guest rooms with no guests! There empty now but it's about time that they were put to use. You can take one and Julie can take another." Tom offered with a bright smile.
Jason shook his head, grinning. "You're a crazy man, Dr. Oliver."
"And proud of it." Tommy said with a chuckle. "What do you say?"
Jason sighed and nodded. "We'll take it. Though just until I can find a place of my own."
Oliver smiled over at his friend. "You stay as long as you need to, Jason."
The former red smiled, shaking his head happily. "You know you're the best friend a guy could ask for."
"I know," Tommy replied with a mockingly cocky grin. "But I always love hearing it." He rose to his feet as Jason laughed, motioning for his friend to do the same. "There's one last thing that I'll need to show you if you're going to be living here..."
"What is it?" Jason asked, eyes sparkling with innocent curiosity. He trusted the other man with his life, though it was hard to tell with Tommy. You never knew what was up his sleeve – he was in a class of his own.
Dr. Oliver sighed, walking over to the dinosaur in the wall. "Follow me.." He said, hoping that he wasn't making a mistake....
"Thank you, Mrs. McKnight." Kelly said softly as her friend's mother led her into Connor's bedroom.
"No problem, Kelly." The woman said kindly to the young girl before looking over to her son. "You if you need anything I'll be downstairs." She added before leaving the room.
The rangers had all agreed to meet up at Connor's house – before they went to Dr Oliver for training. Kelly was the last to arrive. She closed the door quietly behind Connor's mother before turning and giving the room and her friend's a once over.
"Hey everybody." She said with a smile.
"Hey, Kell." The group said in unison, before looking at each other and laughing.
Kelly smiled, moving and taking a seat on the floor beside Trent. "What's up?" She asked as she glanced up to Connor. He was laying out on his bed, ontop of the covers with his cast still on his leg. She smiled as she noticed that he looked a bit better than the last time she had seen him.
"Well," Trent began, causing the group's eyes to move to him. "Alex still hates me."
"You just met him," Kira said with a smile. "How can he hate you?" She leaned back in the beanbag she was sitting on, looking out at all of them. It was strange, for she was the farthest away from Connor – when she usually was the closest to him. Though no one mentioned anything.
"He hated him since the day they met," Ethan explained, pushing off of the floor, causing the chair that he was in to spin slowly around. "They got into a fight at the airport – made a huge scene and everything."
"Really?" Connor asked with avid interest, sitting up slightly.
"I didn't want to fight him.." Trent said, looking over at the dark red walls rather than any of his friend's faces. "I still don't.."
Kelly gave him a warm smile, placing a gentle hand on his arm. "It'll be ok, Trent. Things'll get better, you'll see...he's just hurting now, that's all.."
Trent sighed and nodded. "I hope soe.."
"Connor? Ethan? Anything to add?" Kira asked, glancing to her watch. When both shook their heads 'no', she looked to Kelly, who smiled.
"I actually found out some stuff about Kimberly.." The dark haired girl said softly, easily gaining the attention of her team mates. She smiled, brushing a strand of hair from her face before continuing. "Well, remember last week? When we were at Dr. O's?" She asked, looking to Kira and Connor who both nodded. "I was working on some homework, on his computer. And when I went to save it I noticed a folder titled 'My Past'...I couldn't help but open it.." She added, a light blush coming into her cheeks.
"Go on." Ethan said, leaning forward.
"Alright, well, I opened it up and there were about fifteen more folders inside – each labled with a person's name. I opened some of them to try and figure out what they were, turns out they were titled with the names of old rangers and inside of each folder was pictures, articles and emails..I looked around a bit and found one that said 'Kimberly Hart' on it...I opened it and inside were a ton of pictures and a lot of articles. Though there weren't any e-mails...I went through them all and learned a bit about this mysterious person who Dr. O seems to love so much."
"Is she still hot?" Connor asked eagerly.
"Connor!" Kira scolded, throwing a pillow at him. It was one of the first actions that day that had been directed soley at Connor. She wasn't sure where they stood, for they hadn't spoken about the kiss. She truly did want to talk to him about it and she knew that it was nesecary if the relationship was going to progress at all. Though she was still nervous about what talking about it would mean.
The ranger laughed, smiling over at her. "Ouch, Kira, that hurt." He said with a grin. He was acting normal enough, he had no reason not to. Unlike Kira, he wasn't afraid of what was to come – he knew already that everything was going to be fine between them. "Well, is she Kelly?" He asked, looking back to his pink partner.
"Yes," Kelly answered with a laugh. "She's still very attractive."
"What else?" Trent asked curiously.
"Well.." Kelly began, pausing to think back. "She won a silver medal in the Pan Global Gymnastic Games, before she retired. She did acting for a while, in a movie and a few tv apperances. And in the most recent article, which was published about a month ago, she said that she was looking for a good place to set up a school for the arts to teach and promote gymnastics, karate, acting, music and writing."
"Wow.." Ethan whispered, smiling slightly as she finished. Kim did seem like a great person and he could easily see why Dr. Oliver fancied her.
"Did it mention where she lived?" Trent questioned softly.
Kelly nodded. "Yeah, it gave the name of a small town in Florida. I have it written down somewhere.."
"Great.." Trent said with a grin. "Now all we have to do is find a way to get her to come to Reefside.."
Connor nodded in agreement. "True. But first we need to get over to Dr O's place before we're late." He said, sitting up – eager to finally be able to get out of the house, even if he couldn't train with his friends.
Kira stood up and walked over, reaching out to help him up. Connor took it and gave her a smile, which she returned happily. Connor had been right, everything was ok...
"Welcome to Hayley's Cyberspace, can I take your order?" Alex said as he approached the table his aunt had pushed him towards.
"And you are?" The girl asked in a snotty tone, while the boy continued to fiddle with a cam-corder.
"Your worst nightmare.." Alex muttered with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" She raised a brow, not sure if she was imagining things or not.
"I said what would you like?" He forced on an overly false cheery smile, causing the boy to laugh.
The girl frowned, though accepted his answer. "I want an ice tea." she saidd, before looking to her partner.
"A virgin pina colada. Do excuse Cassidy," The boy added, giving Alex a small smile in apology for his concieted friend. "Mind if I ask for you name?"
"I'm Alex, Heyley's nephew." He said, scribbling down their orders.
"I'm Devin." The boy introduced polietly. "How old are you, Alex?"
"Fourteen." Alex said as he finished up writing and looked over at Devin.
"Freshman, right? Reefside High?" Devin asked.
"Yeah.." Alex frowned slightly as school as mentioned.
Devin grinned and nodded. "Guess I'll see you around school then."
Alex nodded, managing a small smile. "I'll be back with your drinks in a second. Nice meeting you, Devin." He said pointedly, grinning at the boy before walking away.
"Did he just-"Cassidy began, looking dumbfounded.
"Yes, he did, Cass." Devin said with a grin. "He did."
"Again, Tommy?" Jason asked with a laugh. "Doesn't it ever get old?"
Tommy laughed, a bit of colour coming into his cheeks. "I can't help it, you know I love it."
"I know. I know.." Jason grinned as he loked around. "Man..you take the whole 'Once a ranger, always a ranger' to a whole new level."
"Don't I know it." Dr. Oliver said with a laugh.
"Tommy.." Jason began, looking around the lab. "I know you're smart, but all this?"
"I told you, Jason. Hayley's a genius." A hint of pride sounded in his voice. "I think she may even be smarter than Billy."
"Smarter than Billy?" Jason looked back to his friend, brow raised in surprise.
Tommy nodded. "Well, she's a rocket scientist."
Jason grinned. "I have to meet her.."
A twinkle appeared in Dr O's dark eyes. "I'm sure that you guys will hit it off..."
"What's that supposed to mean, Oliver?" Jason asked, frowning slightly.
"I don't know." Tommy said, putting on an innocent smile.
Jason rolled his eyes and laughed, pausing to pick up a picture of the new ranger team. "They any good?" He asked teasingly.
Tommy smiled and nodded. "The team's pretty special. They all come from totally different words – most of them actually didn't like each other before they became rangers."
His friend laughed and nodded, continuing to gaze down at the picture. "Who's who?"
"Well..." Tommy began, moving over to study the picture. "That's Connor, in the red. We call him the "leader", even though it's more of a joint role. He's a soccer player. Then we have Kira – the yellow. She's a singer, has a band called 'The Cause'. She and Connor have something going on – no one knows what, but it's something. The computer genius in the group is Ethan, the blue ranger. Trent's the artist and I acutally used to work with his father. He and Kira used to date, they broke off and thankfully are still really good friends...The last is Trent's supposed new crush, Kelly – the pink and the writer of the group." He finished with a grin.
Jason smiled, taking one last look at the picture before setting it down. "They seem like a pretty special group.."
"They are.." Tommy said with a grin.
"It seems like that make up this big huge love triange.." The former red said with a laugh.
Tommy chuckled softly and nodded. "It's even bigger if you include all those that aren't rangers..." He said, pride twinkling in his eyes as he thought of his fellow rangers.
Jason smiled over at his old friend. "You really care about them don't you?" He asked softly.
Dr. Oliver, laughed softly and looked to the ground. "I do.." He said softly, looking back up to his friend.
"Daddy!" A little voice said as footsteps rushed towards the two. "Daddy, Uncle Tommy – the door! Someone's at the door." A little girl ran over quickly, stopping in front of them. Her blue eyes sparkled happily as she gazed around the room. "Uncle Tommy – can I play on the computer?" She asked, pulling gently on his shirt.
Tommy smiled, kneeling down and taking the little girl into his arms. "Later, Jules, I promise." He said as he stood, holding her gently. "For now, would you like to go and meet some kids that you can play with?"
"Yes." Julie said, nodding her head, brown pigtails bouncing as she did so.
The dark haired man laughed, heading up the stairs. "Great, let's go see them then.." He said, leading the way towards his front door...
AN: I'm done with the 5th chapter. I hope you guys like it. I haven't even posted the 4th chapter as I wrote this. So go and hit the review button now.
BN: smiles happily I haven't gotten a chapter done this fast in a while...I really did like this chapter. My all time favorite line was Jason's, "You take the whole 'Once a ranger, always a ranger' to a whole new level." That was just great on the author's part, I loved it and I hope you did too - Please review, it's greatly appriciated.
O and we still don't own Power Rangers......for now.