Notes: So for the past day or so I have watched nothing but Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. My first ship ever you guys, Kimberly and Tommy. Back before I even knew what shipping was. I'm taking this opportunity to completely ignore some key Ranger canon, for the most part, and put them in a Caskett fic. Simply because I can. Time for some Tomberly you guys. I'm also going with the theory that Angel Grove is a suburb of Los Angeles.

Disclaimers: I own nothing.

Kate glanced around the busy room and decided it was best to just wait for Rick to find her. The last time they'd played this "Let's meet up" game, they spent an hour looking for each other and spent most of the time walking in circles around the other. She made her way over to the nearest bench and took a seat at the end, scooting as far back as she could.

"I know the feeling exactly," the petite brunette in the middle of bench said; she was gently sliding a stroller back and forth with her foot as she spoke.

"I'm sorry?" Kate asked, perplexed.

"My husband does the dinosaur thing, and I usually just have to wait for him to find me. I sicced the boys on him today though, so he won't be quite so... He zones out, you know? He can do one display for an hour." She briefly turned her attention back to the sleeping baby before continuing, "So I've figured out it's best to just turn him loose and let him have his fun while I sit it out. Now that the boys are big enough to actually care he takes them too. Dreams really do come true."

"Sounds like we both married overgrown children," Kate joked, instantly at ease in the presence of the pink-clad mother of at least three. "Mine came to do some research for a book."

"We should set them up for a play date. I'm Kim," the woman introduced herself and held a hand out.

"Kate," she returned, accepting the proffered hand. "She's a cutie."

"Yeah, my little Annie. Fourth time is the charm. Not that I minded giving the man three sons, but I was drowning in it. There is only so much boy a girl can handle. I'm just excited to have pink in the house again," she joked. "What about you, do you know yet?"

Kate looked down and crossed her arms over her rounded stomach, cradling it against her. "No, we don't know yet. My husband was laughing about it actually, me not wanting to find out, he says it goes against every last one of my Type A quirks." She grinned and looked back over at the woman. "I don't care either way though. As long as Peanut is healthy."

"That's cute. Tommy called our first Kidney Bean. So dorky I know, but I'd expect nothing less of him."

Kate laughed loudly. "Sounds exactly like Rick. We really do need to set our husbands up for a play date. They shouldbe the best of friends. Rick needs more willing laser tag players."

"Laser tag?"

"Did I mention that my husband is a nine-year-old? On a sugar rush?"

"I caught Tommy playing dinosaurs the other day... the boys were all napping," Kim offered, running her fingers through her hair. "I think I have five children. One just happens to have a PhD."

"When I met Rick, his daughter was definitely the parent in their relationship. She passed that mantle off to me after she took of to California for college."

"Where in California? Total California girl here!" Kim asked excitedly.

"Paolo Alto, she's at Stanford."

"Angel Grove myself. Good old SoCal, I totally miss it. It's nothing like New York."

"Oh yeah, I've been out to L.A. a few times with Rick. We've never really gotten the chance to explore though. The palm trees were the first thing I noticed," Kate chuckled.

"The snow. Tommy took his position up here in the middle of winter. We were moving with a three-year-old, a ten-month-old, and two feet of snow on the ground. And my mother having a cross country bitchfest, 'Now I'll never get to see my grandbabies. Why do you always do this to me, Kimberly? Why do you hate me so much?' She was over it in about three weeks," Kim explained, with an impressive eye roll.

"My dad lives an hour outside of the city, and he's taken to calling me daily for updates. I think he's seriously considering moving back to the city. That's not the same as yours, but a desperate grandparent is a desperate grandparent in my book. He took to Alexis like a duck takes to water; he cried more than Rick did when we moved her out there."

Kim snorted and shook her head. "It's nice to know that they're the same everywhere."

"Mommy!" A dark haired boy skillfully dodged around occupants in the room as he ran towards them.

"Jase, my oldest." Kim looked from Kate to the boy and gave him a big smile. "Hey, little man, what did you do with Daddy?"

"He's wrestlin' with Zack. Daddy was givin' a lecture, and Will was hangin' off the guy Daddy was talkin' to. He told me to come find you and tell you to bring Annie over to the Brontosaurus display."

Kate's phone dinged in her pocket and she pulled it out to check the text message. "I think they've already had their play date, Kim. Rick just told me to head to the same display," she laughed, and hoisted herself up off the bench.

"Here, I can help you," Jason said, jumping over in front of Kate and grabbing her hand to help pull her up. "I helped Mommy up all the time when Annie was still in her belly."

"Well thank you."

"May I escort you lovely ladies to the dinosaurs?" Jason stood between them and held his hands out.

Kim laughed and stood herself. "He takes after his uncle Zack in the lady killer department. Sorry, Bub, I need both hands for her stroller."

Jason grabbed Kate's hand the side of the stroller. "This is basically the same thing as holding your hand, Mommy, cos we're both holding onto the stroller."

"Child logic, I love it," Kim grinned.

"This way," Jason ordered, dragging them through the crowd.

"Natural born leader," Kim explained again, picking up her pace to keep up with the energetic six-year-old.

"He's lucky he's cute. I don't take orders," Kate teased, doing her best to keep up.

"So, how's the weather up there?"

"Oh, that's totally original. How's the weather down there?" Kate laughed again, not caring where this sudden friendship had come from, and that it had already reached a place where it was okay to poke fun at the other one.

"A little humid, but otherwise not bad," she shot back, completely straight-faced.

"Oh man, Lanie would love you," Kate sighed, as the rounded the last group of people to find their husbands talking animatedly about dinosaurs; one with a squirming child hooked around his arm like a monkey, the other holding a wiggly toddler like a football. "Your child is climbing my husband like he's a tree."

"Yeah, Will does that. He climbs everything, fearless as can be. Scares me to death daily," Kim lamented.

Both women stood and watched the conversation continue for fifteen more minutes; every time they'd tried to wind it down something was said that would spark another anecdote. The two children had evidently gotten bored, because the older one dropped from Rick's arm to land on the floor next to his older brother, and the younger one had decided sleeping half upside down sounded wonderful. When Zack began to snore Kim rolled her eyes, and intervened. She tugged the little boy out of the hold with a surprising amount of force and just shook her head at her husband.

"Hey, Beautiful."

"Oh no, don't 'Hey, Beautiful,' me. You know I hate it when you let him hang upside down like that."

Kate shifted closer to Rick and laced her fingers through his. "We decided to set you two up on play dates," she whispered.

Rick grinned and pressed a kiss to her temple. "He was just telling me about her, she reminded me of Lanie so I knew you two would get along. I should've known you would've already found each other," he returned quietly, while the other couple continued to bicker in good nature.

Jason tugged on Kate's hand and spoke seriously, "If one of you doesn't stop them soon they'll start kissin'. That's fine and stuff, but Daddy picks her up and spins her and it's... look, it's embarrassin'. People watch them and please stop them."

Rick cleared his throat. "I love a good banter session just as much as the next guy, but the little guy here says that if I don't stop you there will be spinning."

The other two smiled sheepishly and quit their arguing. "Why don't we go back to my office and sit down?"

"Yes, please," Kate piped up, she'd been on her feet for most of the day and would love to get the chance to sit again.

Rick and Tommy picked up their dinosaur conversation again and headed off toward the side of the room, with the boys following them.

"Will you push you her stroller? If I try and put him in it all hell with break loose. A marching band could go by and it wouldn't phase him in the slightest, but if I stop touching him? He is the marching band."

Kate happily grabbed Annie's stroller and the two women brought up the rear as they followed the same path the boys had all taken. They shared embarrassing stories about their husbands, sage advice for how to deal with man-child husbands, and some of their favorite 'my-husband-is-being-dopey-and-romantic-and-how-could-I-ever-not-love-him' moments, and Kim took it upon herself to try and prepare Kate for everything the books never told you about motherhood. As the afternoon drifted into the evening the couples agreed that they did indeed need to get together again, and made plans to do so before going their separate ways for dinner.

More notes: I don't normally do a second author's note, but I felt the need to follow this one up. Yes, their children are named after the other original Rangers. Although you can't really tell with Annie, but there is a cute story behind that one, which will be visited in a later chapter. I feel like this one ended kind of weirdly, but I didn't want extend this into forever and shove great big gobs of Ranger flail down your gullets, so I cut it off there.