The Rainbow Brotherhood

When Vida first started dating Chip and Xander, she wasn't expecting anything permanent. If anything, she figured that Xander would go to far while flirting and she'd have to kill him for hurting Chip or Chip would realize that he could do far better than a walking anger management bitch and head off.

It was about two years into their 'thing' that she realized it was a lot more like forever than she'd really imagined. It started with a phone call from Andy Winters. They'd taken an emergency placement for a boy with high functioning autism named Kody while the state located his dad. Kody did music therapy and while Andy normally could pick him up, her van wouldn't start and she couldn't contact Brian or John, or even Luke (who did farm hand stuff to help them out and was an old friend of the family) and would Vida please pick Kody up and bring him out to the farm.

So Vida goes up to the therapy center at the hospital and she finds the little boy playing with a DJ's table. His therapist had needed to run to the bathroom so Vida kept an eye on Kody. By the time the therapist came back, Vida was showing Kody how to work the tables.

With the therapist was Andy, the social worker and the boy's father.

They walked in in time to hear Kody laugh as he played DJ.

The boy's father, a soldier who had been overseas when the boy's mother had had her break from reality, told Vida it was the first time he'd heard the eight year old laugh.

It stuck with Vida, and so she began looking into music therapy.

When she told Chip and Xander that she wanted to change her degree from Art to Musical Therapy, they immediately supported her. Xander was studying horticulture with the intent of growing a mix of magical and mundane plants useful to healers, and Chip was deeply in his nursing studies, but they were there for her as she changed her major.

When Xander finished his schooling a year later and began talking about buying an actual house, Vida tried to prepare herself for loosing him.

That is, until Xander dragged her and Chip out to look at a large farm house near Winterlight, with the acreage for greenhouses and regular crops and pointed to a room with big windows and a skylight, "I thought you'd like your own office," He told Vida.

She never did explain to them why the thought of her office made her cry.

Ronny and Will have a love/hate relationship, they always have.  She's the successful driver from a family with old money and he's made good on the skills of a misspent youth.  They have different opinions on so many things, but there are the things they agree on as well.  Speed, danger, excitment, they turn to each other before anyone else on the team because they get the addiction best.  Their whirlwind courtship and marriage, as Rose often teased them, had actually been an accident.

In their early diplomatic days, Ronny and Will had been having an on again, off again, friends with benefits relationship that just happened to become 'on again' on a planet that disapproved of that sort of relationship.  To keep from destroying all their good will, Ronny and Will chose to imply that they were engaged to be married, leading to the planet to decide to throw them a wedding.  It was sad to say that more people were shocked by their marriage than they were by the divorce five years later.

There was one other surprise in that relationship...

Ophilia Aton-Robinson

Black Ranger

Ophilia would inherit the MMPR Black Mastodon Morpher from Zack Taylor, her personal passion is singing, and she has true operatic talent.