A/N; This is my version of why Tommy lived on his own during the DinoThunder series. I was just thinking about it, and wrote it and desides to put it up to see what people had to say. Feel free to review.
I never planned on living my life alone, with out a wife, or kids. I certainly never planned on being a Power Ranger, not once but for six different teams and powers. Yet here I am, standing in the ruins of my basement/Lair, where I had spent a year directing the battle against Mesogog. It's mostly a ruin now, but some help by friends in the know has made sure it won't come crashing down on me when I convert it into an indoor training area for my martial arts. Right now, however, I'm going to the one part of the basement that hasn't been destroyed. It's a room that not even Hailey ever saw. No one saw it, save for Billy; he helped me with the door. I told him the truth; I had secrets I didn't want a new Ranger team to know about. I had made the video diary for them, but this was my secret.
I entered the room that held the reason I lived alone, some of it was pictures, Kim, Kat, and of Nicole and Melody. I smiled; Kim was there in her civilian gentleness and Ranger spunk, and Kat, who had tried to heal my heart before she, too, had broken it. Finally, there was Nicole, who had sworn to drive the sadness from my eyes and heal my broken heart. I picked up her picture. How different Nicole looked from the other two. They had been light, pretty and sensitive. Nicole had been a smart talking girl from Brooklyn, with brown hair and eyes and a darker complexion. Her smile was different from my first two loves, Nicky had been tough and she screamed it in every movement.
Nicole held our daughter in her arms, sweet little Melody, although her coloring had been dark, there wasn't a person who knew her who ever saw her as anything but beautiful. I touched their picture, smiling softly. As I set the picture down, tears slid down my cheeks. I was alone, now, Kim had married her gymnast, and Kat had married a lawyer who supported her on stage career. Nicole and Melody had died in a car crash. A drunk driver had crossed the line and hit them head on. The irony was that it had been two in the afternoon. I was alone by choice, despite Hailey's attempts to set me up. We had dated in college before Nicole, but Hailey respected that I was still mourning the loss of my girls enough not to pressure me beyond a blind date every other month.
"Dr. O?"
I smiled as I left the room, pushing the door shut, I was alone, yet not alone. I had the Dino-Teens, as Jason called them, and when things got to bad I had Jason, Zack and Trini to help me. Of all the teams I had been a part of, it always amused me that the Rangers I was closest with were the ones I had once tried to kill. For now, I had a beleaguered looking Kira, followed by Conner, who seemed to be vibrating with energy and Ethan, nose pointed at his video game. With these three here, Trent wouldn't be far behind and I had promised to train with them. In some small way, these four teens had begun to cement the bindings that Jason, Zack, Trini and even Billy had put around my shattered heart. As long as I had people I would certainly be fine.