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Title: Home
Fandom: Power Rangers
Pairing: Kai/Leo (background story is gen)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Troy isn't sure about the new house, the new family or his past. Rocky tries to reassure him.
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Power Rangers. It’s not my toy box and I’m merely playing.
A/N: For pockysquirrel, since she gave me the bunny and looked it over for me! Thank you so much! I borrowed the idea about Casey from angel_negra. Thank you!
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Rocky slides into the seat across from Tommy, not bothering to look at his menu, which is already sitting on the table, and asks, “Well?”
Tommy glances up from his menu and chides with a small smile, “You’re late.”
Rocky frowns and pulls out his phone, “No, I’m early.”
Tommy frowns at his phone, “No…Hayley. How do you reset a phone?”
“I have no idea,” Rocky admits before he points out, “but you were early so maybe that’s a good thing.”
“I guess,” Tommy concedes as he goes back to his menu.
“Well?” Rocky pushes again.
“I have no idea what to order,” Tommy offers.
Rocky groans, “That’s not what I meant and you know it.”
“Troy thinks I’m a complete and utter dork,” Tommy complains, “and my parents love him.”
“And…” Rocky prompts.
“I have no idea what to order?” Tommy tries.
Rocky groans and buries his face in his hands.
“Look, you should know by now that if you want me to say something you should just come out and ask me to or better yet just tell me what you want me to say and I’ll repeat it…unless it’s an evil spell, then just don’t, okay?”
Rocky lifts his head to blink at Tommy as their waitress comes over and asks if they have drink orders. Tommy asks for a refill on his water, Rocky orders something a little stronger.
Tommy gives Rocky an expectant look as their waitress walks away. When Rocky doesn’t answer right away, Tommy prompts, “You want to ask me about Troy.”
“And if I come right out and ask you might see things that aren’t there,” Rocky explains, “I might be seeing things that aren’t there.”
“I tried to tell him about the importance of getting to monster shelters?” Tommy tries, “Though I think my parents already gave him that talk. Oh! I tried to make him think I’m not a dork, it didn’t work.”
“Keep going,” Rocky encourages.
“He thinks I’m a dork Rocky, what else do you want from me?”
“Think about it,” Rocky encourages before he asks, “How are your parents dealing with living in a ranger town again?”
“I thought they’d try to move right away, but my mom says that they can’t…” Tommy trails off as he stills, his eyes widening before he shakes his head slowly.
Rocky rests his chin in his hand.
“Troy wears a lot of red,” Tommy slowly chokes out.
“He does,” Rocky agrees.
“Hang on,” Tommy tells him, before he pulls out his phone. He places a quick call, “Mom, were you trying to tell me he’s red?...How long have you suspected that?...You couldn’t just come out and tell…No, that makes sense, I’d have been weird…Okay…Yeah, love you too.”
Rocky sits back as Tommy closes his phone. He raises his eyebrows at Tommy.
“He thinks I’m a dork!” Tommy complains, “Reds are supposed to think I’m cool.”
~~~~~*****~~~~~
Mike Corbett stares at TJ with wide eyes. He feels his jaw working, questions forming and then going unasked. Blindly he reaches for Karone. She takes his hand and gives it a squeeze. He can’t take his eyes off TJ. He’s glad he’s sitting down.
“Could you repeat that?” he finally rasps out.
Karone gives his hand a squeeze again before she reiterates, “You have a son on Earth you didn’t know about and he’s the current red.”
“Leo?” Mike manages.
Leo leans in and latches his chin on his brother’s shoulder, “I think we’re going to Earth.”
“I…we…” Mike groans and closes his eyes trying to sort out the buzzing of thoughts in his head.
“I think I broke him,” TJ cringes as he pulls a chair over and sits down.
“I’m okay,” Mike protests. He really isn’t.
“You don’t look okay,” TJ counters as he takes Mike’s other hand and gives it a squeeze, “Troy’s fine.”
“You know that for certain?”
“I know what Rocky passed along,” TJ tells him, “He wanted to come himself, but work keeps him pretty tied up.”
“Yeah,” Leo agrees, “He couldn’t even make the moon mission.”
“Rocky is?” Mike pushes.
“Who Jason passed his powers onto and then Zeo blue,” Leo tells him.
“I haven’t met him yet,” Mike frowns as he wonders about the fellow ranger who’s apparently been helping look out for his kid. He has a kid. How is he ever supposed to get use to that? Mike opens his eyes and tilts his head to try and look at Leo. As Leo pulls back Mike narrows his eyes as he asks, “Isn’t Rocky the one who passed his morpher onto Justin when he wasn’t even a teenager yet?”
“And that turned out really great,” Leo tries to reassure.
“Justin is a wonderful ranger,” Karone reminds him, “He was meant to have the Turbo powers. It’s lucky for him that Rocky recognized that.”
Mike frowns.
“Hey,” TJ tells him, “My team wouldn’t have been half as prepared without Justin and we wouldn’t have ever gotten the Astro morphers if he hadn’t made sure we followed Divatox into space. I can also reassure you that your kid is in high school.”
Mike smiles slightly, “I think I’ve already managed the math. Troy, huh?”
“I like it,” Leo smiles, “It’s a good name. Not as good as Leo, but I’m sure it suits him.”
Mike shakes his head, giving his brother a playful shove before he asks TJ, “Does he know about me?”
“He didn’t know you were his father until recently and then he thought you were dead due to you being reported dead when your mission first started. He’s knows you’re alive now. Hayley and Angela worked together and confirmed he is yours. He asked Rocky if he can find a way to contact you.” TJ informs him as he gives Mike’s hand one final squeeze before letting go.
“No wonder no one contacted me,” Mike sighs as he runs his newly freed hand down his face, “So they think I’m still dead on Earth?”
“That’s been corrected,” TJ reassures him.
“And he’s staying with Tommy’s parents?” Mike attempts to confirm.
“Yes.”
“Hayley and Angela?” Mike questions, “Wait. Dino Thunder and Lightspeed Rescue.”
“Exactly,” TJ agrees.
“Okay, I need to get time off and…I need to move to Earth, that’s an entire different set of paperwork,” Mike starts to sort out.
Leo grins.
“No,” Mike tells him, “You have responsibilities here. You can visit. We can visit you.”
“I’m coming with you,” Leo tells him, “I’ve got a nephew to spoil.”
“You have a husband to discuss it with first,” Mike reminds.
“He’ll agree with me,” Leo pushes, “Besides he’ll come.”
“If he comes too then Kendrix will…” Mike starts to reason, “The whole team isn’t moving back to Earth because I have a kid. All of you have a life here on Mirinoi.”
“I think that’s up to the team to decide,” Karone interjects before she gives Mike a hug, “I’m going to go find my brother, you let me know when the arguing has died down and I’ll come back to put my two cents in.”
As Leo grins Karone gives him a smirk. Mike shakes his head.
“Leo teach you that one?” TJ asks.
“Zhane,” Karone smiles, “but Leo pointed out he wasn’t using it correctly.”
TJ shakes his head and starts to follow her out. The door to the room slides open to reveal the rest of the Lost Galaxy team standing there looking concerned. Leo grins, “It’s a boy!”
~~~~~*****~~~~~
“Troy! Hey Troy! Wait up!” Emma calls as she tries to catch up to her distracted teammate. Troy pauses and turns, giving her a confused look. Emma gives him a concerned look back and points out, “I’ve been calling for you to wait for a while now.”
“Sorry,” Troy frowns, then sighs, “Guess I’m just distracted.”
“Good distracted or…” Emma prompts as she bumps into him playfully.
“I’m fine,” Troy tries.
“Worried about Robo Knight and teamwork?” Emma tries.
Troy gives her a hint of a smile, “We’ll get there.”
“Did your neighbor’s kid almost blow up his garage again?” Emma pushes.
Troy laughs, “No, Boom’s a good kid, just too smart for his own good and a klutz on top of it. I don’t think his parents realize how brilliant he is.”
“But he’s okay, right?”
“He’s fine,” Troy confirms.
“Worried about our training then?” Emma asks with her eyebrows raised.
“I,” Troy starts and then stops with a frustrated breath. He shoves his hands in his pockets and scuffs his shoe on the pavement before he sighs out, “I’m worried about my father.”
Emma stills, eyebrows knitted together as she takes Troy in, the worry clear on her face.
“You know I’m in foster care right?”
Emma nods.
Troy runs a hand down his face and lets out another breath of frustration. He frowns and wraps his arms around himself, effectively closing his jacket around himself, “He…well up until recently my biological father didn’t even know I existed. Now he does and he’s coming here, all the way from Mirinoi.”
“But that’s a good thing, right?” Emma asks as she shifts towards him slowly.
Troy shrugs, “I guess. It should be, if-if he’s not like my mom.”
Emma bites her lip as she waits.
“I..she,” Troy starts then cuts off as he stares at his shoes.
“You don’t have to talk about anything you don’t want to,” Emma reassures.
“I know,” Troy sighs as he looks at her then shrugs, “It’s difficult. She struggles trying to take care of herself so it’s better that I’m here with the Olivers. And they’ve done this before, sort of. Their adopted son, Tommy, met his brother while he was still in high school.”
“Wow.”
Troy nods his agreement, “They offered to talk to me about it, Tommy and his brother, if I need to.”
Emma brightens, “That’s good! To have someone who’s gone through…or not, Troy?”
“I don’t know,” Troy admits, “I want to be excited, but I keep thinking that I need to be realistic. He lives in another galaxy, he has a life there. He’s not going to want to disrupt his whole life.”
“You can’t know that,” Emma tries.
Troy presses his lips together, then shakes his head before saying, “I can’t get my hopes up.”
Emma nods with a worried furrow on her brow as she gives his arm a squeeze. Troy gives her the hint of a smile.
“You have us, the team,” Emma offers.
“There is that,” Troy agrees.
They smile at each other.
Chapter: [1] [2]
Fandom: Power Rangers
Pairing: Kai/Leo (background story is gen)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Troy isn't sure about the new house, the new family or his past. Rocky tries to reassure him.
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Power Rangers. It’s not my toy box and I’m merely playing.
A/N: For pockysquirrel, since she gave me the bunny and looked it over for me! Thank you so much! I borrowed the idea about Casey from angel_negra. Thank you!
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Rocky slides into the seat across from Tommy, not bothering to look at his menu, which is already sitting on the table, and asks, “Well?”
Tommy glances up from his menu and chides with a small smile, “You’re late.”
Rocky frowns and pulls out his phone, “No, I’m early.”
Tommy frowns at his phone, “No…Hayley. How do you reset a phone?”
“I have no idea,” Rocky admits before he points out, “but you were early so maybe that’s a good thing.”
“I guess,” Tommy concedes as he goes back to his menu.
“Well?” Rocky pushes again.
“I have no idea what to order,” Tommy offers.
Rocky groans, “That’s not what I meant and you know it.”
“Troy thinks I’m a complete and utter dork,” Tommy complains, “and my parents love him.”
“And…” Rocky prompts.
“I have no idea what to order?” Tommy tries.
Rocky groans and buries his face in his hands.
“Look, you should know by now that if you want me to say something you should just come out and ask me to or better yet just tell me what you want me to say and I’ll repeat it…unless it’s an evil spell, then just don’t, okay?”
Rocky lifts his head to blink at Tommy as their waitress comes over and asks if they have drink orders. Tommy asks for a refill on his water, Rocky orders something a little stronger.
Tommy gives Rocky an expectant look as their waitress walks away. When Rocky doesn’t answer right away, Tommy prompts, “You want to ask me about Troy.”
“And if I come right out and ask you might see things that aren’t there,” Rocky explains, “I might be seeing things that aren’t there.”
“I tried to tell him about the importance of getting to monster shelters?” Tommy tries, “Though I think my parents already gave him that talk. Oh! I tried to make him think I’m not a dork, it didn’t work.”
“Keep going,” Rocky encourages.
“He thinks I’m a dork Rocky, what else do you want from me?”
“Think about it,” Rocky encourages before he asks, “How are your parents dealing with living in a ranger town again?”
“I thought they’d try to move right away, but my mom says that they can’t…” Tommy trails off as he stills, his eyes widening before he shakes his head slowly.
Rocky rests his chin in his hand.
“Troy wears a lot of red,” Tommy slowly chokes out.
“He does,” Rocky agrees.
“Hang on,” Tommy tells him, before he pulls out his phone. He places a quick call, “Mom, were you trying to tell me he’s red?...How long have you suspected that?...You couldn’t just come out and tell…No, that makes sense, I’d have been weird…Okay…Yeah, love you too.”
Rocky sits back as Tommy closes his phone. He raises his eyebrows at Tommy.
“He thinks I’m a dork!” Tommy complains, “Reds are supposed to think I’m cool.”
~~~~~*****~~~~~
Mike Corbett stares at TJ with wide eyes. He feels his jaw working, questions forming and then going unasked. Blindly he reaches for Karone. She takes his hand and gives it a squeeze. He can’t take his eyes off TJ. He’s glad he’s sitting down.
“Could you repeat that?” he finally rasps out.
Karone gives his hand a squeeze again before she reiterates, “You have a son on Earth you didn’t know about and he’s the current red.”
“Leo?” Mike manages.
Leo leans in and latches his chin on his brother’s shoulder, “I think we’re going to Earth.”
“I…we…” Mike groans and closes his eyes trying to sort out the buzzing of thoughts in his head.
“I think I broke him,” TJ cringes as he pulls a chair over and sits down.
“I’m okay,” Mike protests. He really isn’t.
“You don’t look okay,” TJ counters as he takes Mike’s other hand and gives it a squeeze, “Troy’s fine.”
“You know that for certain?”
“I know what Rocky passed along,” TJ tells him, “He wanted to come himself, but work keeps him pretty tied up.”
“Yeah,” Leo agrees, “He couldn’t even make the moon mission.”
“Rocky is?” Mike pushes.
“Who Jason passed his powers onto and then Zeo blue,” Leo tells him.
“I haven’t met him yet,” Mike frowns as he wonders about the fellow ranger who’s apparently been helping look out for his kid. He has a kid. How is he ever supposed to get use to that? Mike opens his eyes and tilts his head to try and look at Leo. As Leo pulls back Mike narrows his eyes as he asks, “Isn’t Rocky the one who passed his morpher onto Justin when he wasn’t even a teenager yet?”
“And that turned out really great,” Leo tries to reassure.
“Justin is a wonderful ranger,” Karone reminds him, “He was meant to have the Turbo powers. It’s lucky for him that Rocky recognized that.”
Mike frowns.
“Hey,” TJ tells him, “My team wouldn’t have been half as prepared without Justin and we wouldn’t have ever gotten the Astro morphers if he hadn’t made sure we followed Divatox into space. I can also reassure you that your kid is in high school.”
Mike smiles slightly, “I think I’ve already managed the math. Troy, huh?”
“I like it,” Leo smiles, “It’s a good name. Not as good as Leo, but I’m sure it suits him.”
Mike shakes his head, giving his brother a playful shove before he asks TJ, “Does he know about me?”
“He didn’t know you were his father until recently and then he thought you were dead due to you being reported dead when your mission first started. He’s knows you’re alive now. Hayley and Angela worked together and confirmed he is yours. He asked Rocky if he can find a way to contact you.” TJ informs him as he gives Mike’s hand one final squeeze before letting go.
“No wonder no one contacted me,” Mike sighs as he runs his newly freed hand down his face, “So they think I’m still dead on Earth?”
“That’s been corrected,” TJ reassures him.
“And he’s staying with Tommy’s parents?” Mike attempts to confirm.
“Yes.”
“Hayley and Angela?” Mike questions, “Wait. Dino Thunder and Lightspeed Rescue.”
“Exactly,” TJ agrees.
“Okay, I need to get time off and…I need to move to Earth, that’s an entire different set of paperwork,” Mike starts to sort out.
Leo grins.
“No,” Mike tells him, “You have responsibilities here. You can visit. We can visit you.”
“I’m coming with you,” Leo tells him, “I’ve got a nephew to spoil.”
“You have a husband to discuss it with first,” Mike reminds.
“He’ll agree with me,” Leo pushes, “Besides he’ll come.”
“If he comes too then Kendrix will…” Mike starts to reason, “The whole team isn’t moving back to Earth because I have a kid. All of you have a life here on Mirinoi.”
“I think that’s up to the team to decide,” Karone interjects before she gives Mike a hug, “I’m going to go find my brother, you let me know when the arguing has died down and I’ll come back to put my two cents in.”
As Leo grins Karone gives him a smirk. Mike shakes his head.
“Leo teach you that one?” TJ asks.
“Zhane,” Karone smiles, “but Leo pointed out he wasn’t using it correctly.”
TJ shakes his head and starts to follow her out. The door to the room slides open to reveal the rest of the Lost Galaxy team standing there looking concerned. Leo grins, “It’s a boy!”
~~~~~*****~~~~~
“Troy! Hey Troy! Wait up!” Emma calls as she tries to catch up to her distracted teammate. Troy pauses and turns, giving her a confused look. Emma gives him a concerned look back and points out, “I’ve been calling for you to wait for a while now.”
“Sorry,” Troy frowns, then sighs, “Guess I’m just distracted.”
“Good distracted or…” Emma prompts as she bumps into him playfully.
“I’m fine,” Troy tries.
“Worried about Robo Knight and teamwork?” Emma tries.
Troy gives her a hint of a smile, “We’ll get there.”
“Did your neighbor’s kid almost blow up his garage again?” Emma pushes.
Troy laughs, “No, Boom’s a good kid, just too smart for his own good and a klutz on top of it. I don’t think his parents realize how brilliant he is.”
“But he’s okay, right?”
“He’s fine,” Troy confirms.
“Worried about our training then?” Emma asks with her eyebrows raised.
“I,” Troy starts and then stops with a frustrated breath. He shoves his hands in his pockets and scuffs his shoe on the pavement before he sighs out, “I’m worried about my father.”
Emma stills, eyebrows knitted together as she takes Troy in, the worry clear on her face.
“You know I’m in foster care right?”
Emma nods.
Troy runs a hand down his face and lets out another breath of frustration. He frowns and wraps his arms around himself, effectively closing his jacket around himself, “He…well up until recently my biological father didn’t even know I existed. Now he does and he’s coming here, all the way from Mirinoi.”
“But that’s a good thing, right?” Emma asks as she shifts towards him slowly.
Troy shrugs, “I guess. It should be, if-if he’s not like my mom.”
Emma bites her lip as she waits.
“I..she,” Troy starts then cuts off as he stares at his shoes.
“You don’t have to talk about anything you don’t want to,” Emma reassures.
“I know,” Troy sighs as he looks at her then shrugs, “It’s difficult. She struggles trying to take care of herself so it’s better that I’m here with the Olivers. And they’ve done this before, sort of. Their adopted son, Tommy, met his brother while he was still in high school.”
“Wow.”
Troy nods his agreement, “They offered to talk to me about it, Tommy and his brother, if I need to.”
Emma brightens, “That’s good! To have someone who’s gone through…or not, Troy?”
“I don’t know,” Troy admits, “I want to be excited, but I keep thinking that I need to be realistic. He lives in another galaxy, he has a life there. He’s not going to want to disrupt his whole life.”
“You can’t know that,” Emma tries.
Troy presses his lips together, then shakes his head before saying, “I can’t get my hopes up.”
Emma nods with a worried furrow on her brow as she gives his arm a squeeze. Troy gives her the hint of a smile.
“You have us, the team,” Emma offers.
“There is that,” Troy agrees.
They smile at each other.
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Rocky sits back as Tommy closes his phone. He raises his eyebrows at Tommy.
“He thinks I’m a dork!” Tommy complains, “Reds are supposed to think I’m cool.”
LOL. This entire exchange made me squee. Also Hayley hacking Tommy's phone to be fast.
Does Troy know tat a) his Dad's a Ranger and B) Knows that Troy is one?
Also, I love how Mike's reaction is "I'm moving back to Earth", Leo's is that he & Kai are coming with, and that Karone's s pretty much, yeah the whole team's moving, what's your point?
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"I think I broke him" is probably my favorite line of the whole story. (So far at least!)
Oh, Mike. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Mike's immediate decision to move to back to Earth, Leo insisting that he's coming and Kai will agree, and Mike trying to argue that the whole team just can't pack up and move to Earth with him. And everyone being 'Why is this a question' is just ♥♥♥♥♥. I want to snuggle EVERYONE here. The Team As Family vibe is overpoweringly wonderful. ♥
Troy and Emma are very sweet and cute here, but I'm still drowning in giggles that poor Troy has no idea that he's about to be overwhelmed by a dad and aunties and uncles who will make him their spoiled tribal baby. Which is AMAZING and FABULOUS and FULL OF LOVE. ♥
I have to go write something now. I need to express my feelings of love and fluff and family. ♥
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Yay for TJ getting the best line! I am so glad you're loving the team as family, it's one of my favorite themes and had to make it into this story. I wanted to end on Emma and Troy because I wanted to go back to the Megaforce team and get a feel for where Troy is. :) So glad you're loving it! Yay to you writing stories with love, fluff and family...I love when you do that! <3 Thanks for the wonderful review!
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“He thinks I’m a dork!” Tommy complains, “Reds are supposed to think I’m cool.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA. That reaction is beautiful. Of course that's what Tommy focuses on. And I love that Hayley hacked his phone to ensure he was on time.
Of course Mike's automatic reaction to the news is that he's moving to Earth - well, once his brain starts working again. Love that Leo immediately jumps on the bandwagon too and the whole team. Troy has no idea what he's in for. :)
My ride is here, so I will continue gushing later. Is it bad that my creativity demons keep wanting to write something in this universe? :)
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Hey if you're feeling inspire go right ahead. I don't mind people jumping into this verse.
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So Mike knows Troy's a Ranger, but Troy and company have no idea that all these people around them are former Rangers? That's going to be interesting. I don't think the LG team dealt with secret identities as much as some other teams (I think they implied that the High Council had an idea of what was going on when Mike came back from the dead and walked into a briefing), so Mike might find the situation more than a little strange.
If I get inspired to write anything that makes sense, I might just do that. And it's midnight again, how do I keep doing this to myself? :)
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I get the same impression from Leo, he's so going to try and be the "fun uncle" and it'll be funny.
Troy has no idea how surrounded by former rangers he is. I'm trying to come up with a reveal that doesn't overwhelm him, but haven't gotten there yet. He's living with Tommy's parents, Rocky is his social worker, Casey was in foster care with him and they're brothers by choice and now he has the whole LG team. It also kinda barely made it in this fic Boom as a kid is his neighbor. So surrounded.
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Yeah, all at once would be too much. Maybe Mike just completely sucks at pretending he doesn't know that Troy's a Ranger and eventually Troy realizes he knows?
Mike would have to explain how he figured it out, and maybe you could go from there? I don't know...