Tommy sits with the Rangers
(This has only the vaguest start and no end to it at all, but it’s the first snippet I’m going to post because it’s the only I’ve worked on most recently. See bottom for more notes.)
When he meets Kim at the circle of desks during his first detention with her, he thinks Rita has blown it before it even began. He can feel the other Rangers. He knows these five are the Power Rangers better than he knows his own name. He can't see any way they won't immediately know he's the new Green Ranger.
But then they don't. They show no sign they know he is who he is. Kim introduces him, pulls a chair up for him between her and Trini. Trini's doing the same chemistry homework he brought, looking like she's breezing through problems he'd given up on after ten minutes of staring at them. Billy, on her other side, has twenty four colored pencils precisely lined up, and he's using them to sketch out some sort of elaborate blueprint. Tommy doubts he would understand it if all five of them tried to explain it to him. Zach is on Kim's other side, mostly asleep in his chair, clearly not intending to work on anything but his beauty rest. Jason, beside Zach and across the table from him, is staring Tommy down. There's more curiosity than hostility, and he and Kim appear to be having a conversation entirely in expressions, though Tommy's damned if he knows what they're saying.
Trini reaches over Billy's pencils, careful not to bump the desk and disturb them, to point at something on his schematic. It gets Jason's attention, and he leans into Billy's space to comment on what she sees. When Jason leans back again, Billy picks up the green colored pencil and starts adding lines.
Trying to act like he isn't hyperventilating because they have to know, Tommy pulls out his chemistry homework and goes back to his staring contest with it. Kim nudges him, her own homework-math, he thinks- laying on the table in front of her. When he looks up at her, she jerks her head in Trini's direction.
(This is the first snippet of my Trans!Tommy verse I’m going to post. It isn’t necessarily the earliest bit of it, though it is the earliest one I’ve written. Probably most of what I post is going to be just moments, little blips in time based on a thought I had and wanted to explore. This one was the idea that Tommy can feel that the others are the Power Rangers. He should be evil in this, because in the original he was working with Rita at the equivalent of this point, but that doesn’t particularly come through too much.)
Also, while I really doubt it will happen, I am DYING for Tommy to be trans in the Power Rangers sequel.
