1Disclaimer: If I owned it, Tommy and Kimberly would never have broken up.

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"Kimberly," Tommy said quietly, praying that he hadn't fallen asleep grading papers and imagined the whole thing. He wanted this to be real, more than anything. Just hearing her voice again took her breath away.

"Tommy, I know we haven't talked for a long time, and you're probably trying to sleep, but..."

"No, don't worry about it. I was up grading some papers, but they don't have to be done until Monday. I've got all the time in the world. It's great to hear from you." He winced at how pathetic his life must seem to her, but he didn't want to scare her off by making her think she was interrupting something important.

"I...um...I was just thinking of you and how we haven't really talked since..." she broke off, not knowing what to say. It had just popped out of her mouth. She had been trying to ease into a conversation, but she had accidentally leaped right into the topic of the breakup. This was not starting off very well.

"Yeah...I noticed that, too. Like I said, though, it's great to hear from you. How did you get this number?"

"Reefside Information. Jason told me that you were teaching there. Is that good? I mean, is the teaching going well?"

"Yeah, yeah, it's great. I've got some really great students." Tommy mentally kicked himself. Really great students? Suddenly, he understood fully and completely the meaning of the word 'lame.' "So...how's the teaching gymnastics going? Jason said that's what you were doing."

"It's great. I've...got some really great students." The tension slipped for a moment, and both found themselves laughing. All too soon, though, the laughter died, and the silence took over again. "Anything interesting been happening there?" she suddenly asked, remembering something she had seen on the news. At the time, she had thought the name of the city was familiar, but it didn't really click until now. "I heard on the news that there's a group of power rangers in Reefside. You wouldn't know anything about it, would you?" The nervous chuckle on the other end all but confirmed her suspicions that he was involved with them somehow.

"Well, you know, I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you," he joked, knowing that she had probably already guessed that he was at least somehow involved with the group.

"I vaguely remember Jason mentioning something about you eventually putting on a rainbow suit if you didn't stop switching colors soon. You haven't proven him right yet, have you?" Tommy remembered Jason teasing him about that on the moon. He was far from a rainbow suit, but he had to admit that Jason had a reason to tease him. This was his fourth color so far.

"Not yet," he answered her, "but I think I may be coming close to it."

"So you've suited up again?" she asked, not really doubting it. He always had been one of the best. Still, he was a little old to be a power ranger.

"Well, it wasn't really by choice, but I've come to accept it. I must admit, I'm beginning to think that there is an endless supply of bad guys, and I seem to attract a good deal of them." Kimberly sensed a bit of cynicism in his voice. Poor guy. It was one thing to take some time out of a real life to save the world, but he'd already put in more years than any of the others had. Suddenly, Kimberly heard a strange, quiet sound in the background. "Kimberly, I really, really hate to hang up with you, and I'm really hoping that we can do this again, but I have to go. Duty call, you know?"

"Sure," she said, understanding completely, and sort of feeling sorry for him. "Look, I'll call you back, okay?"

"Yeah. Thanks for calling. Really. I've missed you, Kim."

"I've missed you too, Tommy. Look, you run off and save the world, I'll call you back. I promise. This is just goodbye for now."

"Alright. See ya, Kim." And like that, the conversation was over. Kimberly hadn't said what she needed to say. She did have a feeling, though, that she knew exactly what she needed to do. She picked up the phone again and asked to be redirected to Reefside Information. This time, though, she asked for the Reefside Inn. She was going to take a vacation.