Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers it is property of Saban and at one point Disney. I only own Bay and the plotline.
"So is the mysterious Dr. Oliver ever going to show up or am I forced to deal with a sub forever?" Bay asked as Anton Mercer gave the class their homework assignment for the night.
"I'm sure he'll be back soon," Kira said trying not to sound angry.
"You know Kira pent up anger removes years from your life," Bay smirked as she tousled her hair with her fingers.
"You know what," Kira started but was interrupted by the last bell.
"Guess we'll never know what you meant to say," Bay said standing up with her bag on her shoulder, "I'll see you later Connie."
"Later Bay," Conner waved like some little girl with a crush.
Ethan and Kira laughed at their teammate as they walked out of the classroom. Bay had been ignoring Conner for the last few weeks and it was getting kind of pathetic how love sick their friend was acting.
"Don't have your legs too far back Bay," Kim called as Bay did her uneven bar routine.
As Bay bit her tongue and ignore her mother she went for her dismount only to land on her ankle sideways.
"Bay are you alright?" Kim rushed over to her daughter.
"I think it's broken," Bay's voice strained as she tried not to put any pressure on her foot.
"Let's get you to a hospital," Her mother said helping the girl to her car.
"It's a twisted ankle," The emergency room doctor informed them, "It shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks to heal. But I do want you to stay off your feet for a few days."
"Cool do I get a cast? Or a colored ace bandage?" Bay questioned as she smiled. She had only broken a few things and loved when they gave her cast.
"I don't think we have colored ace bandages but you can have the regular one," The doctor laughed.
"She loves cast for some weird reasons," Kim informed the doctor.
"We'll get you bandaged right up and then you can go home."
Kimberly was sure she had seen Tommy as her and Bay were leaving the hospital. But he didn't look the same, it wasn't like she had expected him to keep the long hair and pony tail forever.
Bay had been been busy and didn't have a chance to see the man that was her father. If she had Kim was pretty sure she would have noticed a resemblance of some sort.
"Mom where's the remote?" Bay yelled from the couch.
"It should be on the coffee table," Kim walked in the room.
"Ha there you are," Bay said as she found the remote under a pillow.
Kim was having an internal debate on whether or not she wanted to tell her daughter about her father and the fact that he was in Reefside.
"Well nothing is on. I'm going to do my homework," Bay grumbled as she grabbed her crutches and made her way to the stairs.
"Be careful," Kim said as she watched her daughter make her way slowly up the stairs to her room.
"Where's Bay?" Conner asked his friends. Bay was always in class on Wednesdays because she had gymnastics practice after school with her mom.
"Don't know. Don't care," Kira remarked.
"Maybe Bay is right, pent up anger isn't good for you," Ethan commented.
"You volunteering as my punching bag?" Kira asked with a smirk on her face.
"Kira, Ethan, Conner anything interesting you'd like to share with the rest of us?" Tommy asked his students. It was his first day back and he was just glad to be out of his house.
He was greeted with a chorus of no's when a girl with black hair with purple highlights came in on a pair of crutches.
"You must be Dr. Oliver. I'm Bay Hart I'm new here well not really," Bay said handing him her excuse note from her previous teacher.
"Not a problem Ms. Hart," Tommy said as he studied the girl for a bit.
"Hey Connie mind getting a lady's chair?" Bay asked as she made her way to her usual desk in the back.
"Um yeah," Conner replied as he got up.
"We really need to work on your articulating problem," Bay laughed as she sat down.
"Back to the lesson," Tommy started the class back up.
By the end if the hour Tommy realized that his new student was caught up on everything from the beginning of the school year.
"Ms. Hart may I speak with you?" Tommy asked as his class piled out of the door.
"Sure why not," Bay said reluctantly. She wasn't in a rush to head to practice as she waited for her mom to finish and drive her home.
"I want to say that I am impressed that you caught up so fast for someone being in Reefside for what seems like a few weeks," Tommy smiled.
"Like school is hard. It was easy catching up. But I'm sorry Dr. O my mom is waiting for me since I can no longer drive," Bay huffed as she shifted onto her crutches.
"There you are Bay I'm going to take you home first," Kim said as she found her daughter oblivious to the love of her life standing in the room.
"Whatever. It's not like I can do much anyway," Bay sneered at her crutches.
"Kimberly?" Tommy finally snapped out of his shocked state.
"Tommy?" Kim squeaked. She hadn't expected to see him at the high school.
"So looks like you two know each other and Conner looks like he wants to talk to me so he can give me a ride home," Bay said trying to ignore the fact that her mom and her teacher were friends in a past life, "Hey Connie you gonna stand there or help a girl out."
"Hi Mrs. St. James. See you Dr. O," Conner said as he grabbed Bay's bag and lead her out of the room.
"So you have a daughter?" Tommy asked as he ran his fingers through his hair.
"So you're a doctor?" Kim asked back as she slowly got over her shock.
"Paleontologist not the most exciting thing," Tommy downplayed his work.
"I would bet," Kim smiled a bit.
"So you're in Reefside. With a daughter and your married," Tommy said trying to wrap his mind around everything.
"Divorced. I just haven't changed my name back," Kim said tousling her hair. A habit she picked up from Bay.
"What I don't get is that Bay is at least seventeen, which means you had to have had her at,"
"Seventeen almost eighteen? Yeah," Kim said knowing that he would figure out.
"Seventeen," Tommy gaped. That meant that, "She's mine."
"You're getting slow in your old age Tommy," Kim laughed, "But I have gymnastics practice and with Bay out we have to scramble a bit."
"You kept her from me," Tommy said stopping her from leaving.
"Not everything is about you Tommy. Bay would have been a distraction while you were out saving the world," Kim said trying to stay calm.
"I should have known," Tommy argued.
"And then what would you have done? Stopped what you were doing to come see me while I was pregnant? Been at her birth or even her first birthday with you going off to college?" Kim continued to argue.
"I still should have known," Tommy sighed.
"I wasn't going to have her be the target for some evil villain," Kim sighed as she sat on one of the desk.
"So what's with purple hair?" Tommy laughed.
"Her teenage rebellion. She also has a tattoo," Kim chewed on her lip.
"You let her get a tattoo?" Tommy asked.
"It's the same one I have actually," The brunette supplied.
"You got a tattoo?" The taller male gasped.
"As much as I have loved this conversation, I have to really get to gymnastics practice," Kim said as she stood up.
"We aren't done at all," Tommy said standing in front of the women he had lost.
"But I am for now," Kim side stepped Tommy and grabbed the pen off his desk, "Come over at five. I doubt Bay will be home anytime soon."
"You live across the street from me," Tommy laughed.
"What a freaking coincidence," Kim muttered as she left the classroom to go to the gym.
"She just does what she wants?" Tommy asked as he took the mug of coffee Kim had offered him.
"I can't really say no. She has straight A's she always has," Kim sighed as she took a sip from her own mug.
"She needs rules Kim," The
"You really don't have a say in this Tommy," Kim brought her legs underneath her, "Despite her attitude she's a good girl aside the skipping and staying out late."
"And what's with her and Conner?"
"Don't know. They went out once and she hasn't said much about him,"
"He's said a lot about her,"
"I didn't know you were that close to your students,"
"I have study group with Conner and a couple of other students and he keeps talking about her," Tommy covered.
"Thanks again for the ride Connie," Bay said as she walked through the front door.
"Anytime," Conner said as he placed her bag by the foot of the stairs.
"You want to stay awhile and study or something?"
"I'd like that," Conner said as the two teens made their way to the living room.
"So is this going to be a regular thing?" Bay asked as her and Conner entered the living room.
"Bay manners," Kim scolded.
"I'm sorry if this isn't weird for you mother but it is for me. Knowing that my mother and my teacher were friends in a past life," Bay huffed, "We'll be upstairs studying."
"Nice to see you again Mrs. St. James. Dr. Oliver," Conner said as he followed Bay out of the living room.
"We are going to tell her right?" Tommy asked as he looked at the two teens leaving.
"I should do it," Kim said setting her mug on the coffee table, "It will be better hearing it from me."
"You're probably right," Tommy said standing up, "I better get home. I have papers to grade."
"It's good to see you Tommy," The brunette women said standing up and escorting him to the front door.
"You too Kim," The black ranger smiled, "I guess I'll be seeing you around."
As Tommy walked across the street Kim stood and watched him for a bit before going back into her own home.
Kim had thought about Tommy a lot. Especially when she looked at Bay and saw the features she shared with Tommy.
Bay was her little girl. No matter how she dressed or acted. She was always going to see that little girl with pigtails.
"Who's Elizabeth?" Conner asked as he caught glimpse of a name on a card on Bay's desk.
"That's my first name. Only my grandmother calls me that," Bay said as she looked up from the textbook she was reading.
"So you just got Bay from Elizabeth?" the red ranger was interested in learning as much about this girl as he could.
"Elizabeth Anastaisia Hart. BAH. But I pronounced it as Bay and it's stuck. Much to my mothers dislike," The girl smiled, "Why are you so interested in knowing about me?"
"I find you interesting and hard to figure out," Conner said moving to sit on the foot of the bed.
"Maybe I like it that way," Bay said as she leant closer to him and just low enough for just Conner to hear.
"Well I am determined to learn about you," Conner said as he leant even closer.
"I might just let you," Bay smiled as she was just ready to press her lips to Conner's when his communicator beeped.
"I'm sorry I have to go. I promised my mom I'd help her," Conner covered as he grabbed his bag and stood up.
"Well that is the worse timing," Bay laughed.
"I'll see you tomorrow," The blond boy smiled as he left.
Bay fell back onto her bed and sighed. She never let boys get this close to her. And it wasn't because she had father issues it was because she saw her mother date many people before she found David.
But that only lasted for about seven years before it went south. She loved David he was there for her major milestones which she found grateful. But it will never make up for her not having her biological father in her life.
"Bay I have something I need to tell you," Kim said as she handed her daughter a mug of hot chocolate as she sat on her daughter's bed.
"It has to be serious if you made hot chocolate. You haven't made this since the news of the divorce," Bay said looking at her mother.
"Tommy and I weren't just friends Bay," Kim said as she got serious, "We dated for three years and before I left for Florida we made a decision to take our relationship to a more intimate level. Which resulted in you."
"So not only were you friends you were lovers?" Bay asked trying to comprehend the information she was just given.
"In better words,"
"Is that why we moved to Reefside? So you could rekindle an old romance?" Bay accused.
"I had no idea Tommy would be here and be a teacher at your school and live across the street," Kim defended herself.
"I can't handle this right now," Bay stood up.
"You can't drive Bay," Kim stood up as well.
"No but I can walk and I have a cellphone," Bay grabbed her bag and made her way down the stairs slowly.
"Bay," Her mother called after the teenager but was met with the sound of the front door closing.
"I'm sorry if I ruined your beauty sleep Connie," Bay said as she entered the Mustang.
"I was still doing homework anyway,"
"Well I can help you with that,"
"I'd like that" Conner said as he drove the two back to his house.
Kim looked at the clock and bit her nails. It was almost midnight and Bay hadn't come back yet.
Deciding against her her better judgement Kim pulled on her sweatshirt and made her way across the street to see if there maybe was a chance Bay had gone over to Tommy's or he had seen her.
As she rung the doorbell she couldn't help but feel helpless knowing that she didn't have any idea where her daughter was.
"Kim its almost midnight," Tommy answered the door his voice was husky from sleep and he was shirtless.
"I'm so sorry. Its just that I told Bay tonight and she left and I have no idea where she is," Kim said as she twisted her hands in the sweatshirt she was wearing.
"She hasn't been by here," Tommy ran his hand through his spiked hair.
"It's just that I'm worried. We've only been in Reefside for a few weeks," the brunette women said almost to tears.
"Come in and I'll make some coffee," Tommy said as he stepped aside.
"I shouldn't you have class tomorrow," Kim said rocking back and forth on her heels.
"You're probably right," The black ranger sighed.
"But thank you," Kim smiled as she turned towards her house.
"It's nice seeing that my sweatshirt has been in good hands," Tommy called from behind her.
"It always has been," Kim smiled as she walked the short distance to her house.