Disclaimer: Not mine, I swear! I just toy around with their lives :)
Note:
I'm not too sure about the time line here... for my sake though, say the Muiranthais was 1 year after 'the letter' and the 'letter' was 5 mo. after she moved to FL. Also, for my sake, please say that the space rangers time overlapped the late late morphin' phase... because time & me don't work well together and it would make my life SOOO much easier!!
And Yes... I know.. letter fics are SOOOOOO overdone but *shrugs* I just had to write it ;)
-...- is thoughts
"---" is speech (duh lol)
^^^ shows flashbacks
** can show times
{...} spirit animals
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She kicked the stone wall.
-Great..just GREAT! I come back, try and fix stuff, and it's right along with Zedd & Rita!- She leaned back against the cool stone and sunk to the ground. -And on top of that I get captured.-
Her black shorts were now covered with patches of dust and her grey t-shirt had a rip through the bottom. She could only imagine how dirty she must look after a fight with putties and tengas alone and hours in this stupid dungeon.
Kim sighed, taking her hair out its ponytail and letting it fall. She put her head on her knees.
-I'm not a ranger anymore, what do they want with me?-
-Revenge- She answered her own question.
"I just wanted to fix things.." Kim whispered on the verge of tears.
-At least Jayde is safe.- She soothed mentally.
Jayde Lyn, her daughter, was staying with Adam for a while she tried to patch things up with everyone. He had been the only one to keep up contact after her infamous letter, that and he had arrived when she was pregnant. Adam actually surprised her at her apartment and five minutes later she went into labor, so he was there coaching her as she gave birth to Jayde.
^^^
Kim pushed herself up from the couch at the sound of a knock on the door. Her large stomach made it so difficult to even stand up sometimes. Luckily everyone around here knew she was with child and watched out for her. She walked slowly over, though it was probably as fast as she could manage in her condition.
The knock came again, either unsure or impatient.
"Ok ok, I'm coming. How fast do you expect me to walk for being..." Her speech faded off in shock to see Adam standing there. "Pregnant." She whispered the end of her sentence.
"Kimberly????" The black ranger asked in pure astonishment.
"Uh, I um," she stumbled through the words but finally composed herself and managed to hug her long time friend. "Adam, wow hi. What brings you here?"
"I..we.. spring break. I'm on call," he flashed his communicator, "but with the space rangers there too I figured I'd come visit since you've been returning my letters. Kim, what happened to you?" He blurted out the last part in a less than polite manner.
"It's a long story. But where's my head, come in come in." She gestured him into the cozy apartment and made her way to the kitchen. "Coffee is good right?"
"Yeah..that's fine." His voice revealing he was still quite stunned.
"Let me see if I remember. Hmm, two splashes of cream and no sugar?"
"You got it." Adam smiled. Kim beamed with a flash of pride and then turned around to pour the drinks while Adam settled, slightly uneasy, on the couch.
"So Kim... you will tell me right?" He asked, checking if she would act like nothing was wrong or open up to him like she had in her letters.
"You kind of caught me red handed here frog prince, I don't have much choice." She giggled and made her way over with two mugs of steaming coffee. She set down the cups on the coffee table but suddenly cringed her face in pain.
"Oh my god......" She choked out and looked at Adam with panicked eyes. He jumped up and grabbed her shoulders.
"Kim, Kimmy what's wrong?"
"My..my water broke. Adam would be so kind as to _call the hospital?_ The number is on the phone there." She tried to remain calm, closing her eyes and breathing deeply.
Adam hurried to the phone and dialed the number designated on a sticky note. After a minute of giving information to the desk nurse and casting worried glances towards Kim, he hung up the phone.
"Ok, they said they have a room ready and to get there as soon as possible."
"O-ok, come on then. Would you mind driving me? Here's my keys." Kim tossed him her car keys off the coffee table, which he caught and then helped her to it.
*10 hours later a little after 12 am*
"Congratulations Mister and Misses Hart, you have a healthy baby girl." The doctor announced, re-entering Kim's hospital room where she lay, recovering from exhaustion on the bed, and Adam was sitting next to her. They exchanged confused glances at the 'mister and misses' comment but decided not to argue.
"The nurses will bring her in as soon as she's cleaned up." He continued with a smile and then walked out.
"Adam..." Kim turned to the young man who held her hand. "I can never thank you enough for being with me through the birth."
"What are friends for?" He blushed back and pushed a strand of hair from her face.
"You're one of the best friends I could ever hope for." She paused. "What's your favorite girls' name?"
He looked at her in confusion. "Probably Jayde, why?"
"And your mother's name?"
"Lyn," he answered quickly. "But Kim what does that have to do with-"
"Sounds like a beautiful name to me, Jayde Lyn Hart." She cut him off and smiled at the floored look that appeared on the young Korean's face for the third time that day.
"One more thing froggy.." Kim started.
"Yeah?" He looked at her suspiciously but also with concern.
"If I tell you the whole story, do you swear on Zordon's life never to tell anyone without my permission?"
~Wow, she's asking me to swear on ZORDON'S life...~ Adam contemplated. He finally nodded and gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.
"Alright Kimmy, I swear it."
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~What a day that had been...~ Kim thought in her cell.
She smiled to herself. ~And he never did tell.~
Her smile faded as she looked around herself for the millionth time and sighed.
~I'll never be able to thank him, or explain the letter to Tommy, or tell HIM I love him and we have a child. I'll never hold Jayde again...~ The thoughts floated around her head.
~Poor Jayde, my little midnight baby... NO! Come on Kim, you're a former ranger.. you _can_ do this!~ She snapped herself out of the depression and began to truly search for a way out in every inch of the cell.
**
After what seemed to be hours of searching she had found...nothing. Well, except a tiny window about thirty feet up the sleak, stone wall.
{That won't work unless you know how to get up there my child.} A soothing voice sounded in her head.
"What the heck?" Were the first words out of her mouth as she spun around searching for its source.
{Calm yourself, girl. I'm here within you.}
~Who are you..?~ She asked suspiciously in her mind as she sat on the dusty floor of the dungeon.
{You do seem to have forgotten your path. I am the Crane, child, and I have missed you so.}
Kim's jaw dropped, ~But-but Kat took the Crane powers.~ She tried to justify that this must have been a hallucination from whatever they had been feeding her here.
{Kathrine may have wielded the power as you strayed from your path but I am once again free to you. You _are_ the Crane, don't deny it. I'm here to help you reach those you care about.}
Before Kim could counter with another explanation of what the voice might be or why it was wrong, the Crane spoke one word sternly and strongly, causing it to ring in her ears.
{MORPH!}
Deciding that she really had nothing to lose, Kim stood up and dusted herself off. Following the command she took her usual morphing position and called out the words that seemed to be honey to her tongue.
"The Crane Ninja Power!"
She felt a wave of familiarity rush over her and through her. Her eyes fluttered closed for a minute and when she opened them again she was clad in her pink ninjetti suit once again.
"It's good to be home." Kim murmured as she looked down at her suit. Her gloved fingers brushing over the gold coin on her chest.
The loud creeking of the dungeon door caused her head to snap up. Two figures made their way roughly down the ancient stairs leading to the many cells doors.
"Let's go you pathetic creature!" She heard Goldar taunt as he shoved the cloaked figure down a few steps. Kim backed away from her metal door and into the shadows.
"Power down." She whispered and was instantly back to her original, but still dirty, clothing. A few seconds later her door was flung open, smashing into the wall behind it but doing little damage.
"You two can keep each other company while Rita and Zedd decide what to do with you both. Enjoy your time!" Golder threw the other into the cell as he laughed manically and slammed the door shut again.
Kim heard the door lock as she looked to where the mysterious, cloaked person... well it looked like a person... had hit the wall.
It groaned as it slammed into the solid stone, indicating that it was male.
~Just what I need.~ She thought sarcastically to herself. ~If he's not friendly then I can hold my own but I need someone to talk to before I go crazy!~
Kimberly slowly made her way to where the figure lay. He seemed to make no effort of getting up. She gasped as she saw blood on his cloak and mixing with the dust on the ground. It made a brown, red paste that grossed Kim out. She knelt down beside his head in the dim light, gently lifting it into her lap to show she was friendly. He moaned and brought a hand to his head, pushing off the hood that concealed his slightly battered face.
"IT'S YOU!" She cried in complete surprise. It was the last person she had expected to see here and one who she had desperatly wanted to talk to. Unfortunatly she was now speechless. She ran a hand softly over his cheek, noticing a cut on his lip and above his eye.
"It..it can't be..." His eyes cracked open, though it seemed to cause him pain. As did talking yet he whispered again. "Kimberly, is it you?"
"Yeah," she let tears of both happiness and sadness fall as she gave a faint smile. "It's me."
"I thought..that I'd never se- see you again." He smiled weakly and passed out.
"I'm here." She soothed his hair carefully. "I'm here."
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Ok! What did you think? Hope the time line note at the beginning didn't throw you off too much lol That should come more into play in the next chapter, but why would I post the next chapter if you don't tell me what you think of this one? Did you like it? THEN SAY SO! lol *hugs* :)
Note:
I'm not too sure about the time line here... for my sake though, say the Muiranthais was 1 year after 'the letter' and the 'letter' was 5 mo. after she moved to FL. Also, for my sake, please say that the space rangers time overlapped the late late morphin' phase... because time & me don't work well together and it would make my life SOOO much easier!!
And Yes... I know.. letter fics are SOOOOOO overdone but *shrugs* I just had to write it ;)
-...- is thoughts
"---" is speech (duh lol)
^^^ shows flashbacks
** can show times
{...} spirit animals
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
She kicked the stone wall.
-Great..just GREAT! I come back, try and fix stuff, and it's right along with Zedd & Rita!- She leaned back against the cool stone and sunk to the ground. -And on top of that I get captured.-
Her black shorts were now covered with patches of dust and her grey t-shirt had a rip through the bottom. She could only imagine how dirty she must look after a fight with putties and tengas alone and hours in this stupid dungeon.
Kim sighed, taking her hair out its ponytail and letting it fall. She put her head on her knees.
-I'm not a ranger anymore, what do they want with me?-
-Revenge- She answered her own question.
"I just wanted to fix things.." Kim whispered on the verge of tears.
-At least Jayde is safe.- She soothed mentally.
Jayde Lyn, her daughter, was staying with Adam for a while she tried to patch things up with everyone. He had been the only one to keep up contact after her infamous letter, that and he had arrived when she was pregnant. Adam actually surprised her at her apartment and five minutes later she went into labor, so he was there coaching her as she gave birth to Jayde.
^^^
Kim pushed herself up from the couch at the sound of a knock on the door. Her large stomach made it so difficult to even stand up sometimes. Luckily everyone around here knew she was with child and watched out for her. She walked slowly over, though it was probably as fast as she could manage in her condition.
The knock came again, either unsure or impatient.
"Ok ok, I'm coming. How fast do you expect me to walk for being..." Her speech faded off in shock to see Adam standing there. "Pregnant." She whispered the end of her sentence.
"Kimberly????" The black ranger asked in pure astonishment.
"Uh, I um," she stumbled through the words but finally composed herself and managed to hug her long time friend. "Adam, wow hi. What brings you here?"
"I..we.. spring break. I'm on call," he flashed his communicator, "but with the space rangers there too I figured I'd come visit since you've been returning my letters. Kim, what happened to you?" He blurted out the last part in a less than polite manner.
"It's a long story. But where's my head, come in come in." She gestured him into the cozy apartment and made her way to the kitchen. "Coffee is good right?"
"Yeah..that's fine." His voice revealing he was still quite stunned.
"Let me see if I remember. Hmm, two splashes of cream and no sugar?"
"You got it." Adam smiled. Kim beamed with a flash of pride and then turned around to pour the drinks while Adam settled, slightly uneasy, on the couch.
"So Kim... you will tell me right?" He asked, checking if she would act like nothing was wrong or open up to him like she had in her letters.
"You kind of caught me red handed here frog prince, I don't have much choice." She giggled and made her way over with two mugs of steaming coffee. She set down the cups on the coffee table but suddenly cringed her face in pain.
"Oh my god......" She choked out and looked at Adam with panicked eyes. He jumped up and grabbed her shoulders.
"Kim, Kimmy what's wrong?"
"My..my water broke. Adam would be so kind as to _call the hospital?_ The number is on the phone there." She tried to remain calm, closing her eyes and breathing deeply.
Adam hurried to the phone and dialed the number designated on a sticky note. After a minute of giving information to the desk nurse and casting worried glances towards Kim, he hung up the phone.
"Ok, they said they have a room ready and to get there as soon as possible."
"O-ok, come on then. Would you mind driving me? Here's my keys." Kim tossed him her car keys off the coffee table, which he caught and then helped her to it.
*10 hours later a little after 12 am*
"Congratulations Mister and Misses Hart, you have a healthy baby girl." The doctor announced, re-entering Kim's hospital room where she lay, recovering from exhaustion on the bed, and Adam was sitting next to her. They exchanged confused glances at the 'mister and misses' comment but decided not to argue.
"The nurses will bring her in as soon as she's cleaned up." He continued with a smile and then walked out.
"Adam..." Kim turned to the young man who held her hand. "I can never thank you enough for being with me through the birth."
"What are friends for?" He blushed back and pushed a strand of hair from her face.
"You're one of the best friends I could ever hope for." She paused. "What's your favorite girls' name?"
He looked at her in confusion. "Probably Jayde, why?"
"And your mother's name?"
"Lyn," he answered quickly. "But Kim what does that have to do with-"
"Sounds like a beautiful name to me, Jayde Lyn Hart." She cut him off and smiled at the floored look that appeared on the young Korean's face for the third time that day.
"One more thing froggy.." Kim started.
"Yeah?" He looked at her suspiciously but also with concern.
"If I tell you the whole story, do you swear on Zordon's life never to tell anyone without my permission?"
~Wow, she's asking me to swear on ZORDON'S life...~ Adam contemplated. He finally nodded and gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.
"Alright Kimmy, I swear it."
^^^
~What a day that had been...~ Kim thought in her cell.
She smiled to herself. ~And he never did tell.~
Her smile faded as she looked around herself for the millionth time and sighed.
~I'll never be able to thank him, or explain the letter to Tommy, or tell HIM I love him and we have a child. I'll never hold Jayde again...~ The thoughts floated around her head.
~Poor Jayde, my little midnight baby... NO! Come on Kim, you're a former ranger.. you _can_ do this!~ She snapped herself out of the depression and began to truly search for a way out in every inch of the cell.
**
After what seemed to be hours of searching she had found...nothing. Well, except a tiny window about thirty feet up the sleak, stone wall.
{That won't work unless you know how to get up there my child.} A soothing voice sounded in her head.
"What the heck?" Were the first words out of her mouth as she spun around searching for its source.
{Calm yourself, girl. I'm here within you.}
~Who are you..?~ She asked suspiciously in her mind as she sat on the dusty floor of the dungeon.
{You do seem to have forgotten your path. I am the Crane, child, and I have missed you so.}
Kim's jaw dropped, ~But-but Kat took the Crane powers.~ She tried to justify that this must have been a hallucination from whatever they had been feeding her here.
{Kathrine may have wielded the power as you strayed from your path but I am once again free to you. You _are_ the Crane, don't deny it. I'm here to help you reach those you care about.}
Before Kim could counter with another explanation of what the voice might be or why it was wrong, the Crane spoke one word sternly and strongly, causing it to ring in her ears.
{MORPH!}
Deciding that she really had nothing to lose, Kim stood up and dusted herself off. Following the command she took her usual morphing position and called out the words that seemed to be honey to her tongue.
"The Crane Ninja Power!"
She felt a wave of familiarity rush over her and through her. Her eyes fluttered closed for a minute and when she opened them again she was clad in her pink ninjetti suit once again.
"It's good to be home." Kim murmured as she looked down at her suit. Her gloved fingers brushing over the gold coin on her chest.
The loud creeking of the dungeon door caused her head to snap up. Two figures made their way roughly down the ancient stairs leading to the many cells doors.
"Let's go you pathetic creature!" She heard Goldar taunt as he shoved the cloaked figure down a few steps. Kim backed away from her metal door and into the shadows.
"Power down." She whispered and was instantly back to her original, but still dirty, clothing. A few seconds later her door was flung open, smashing into the wall behind it but doing little damage.
"You two can keep each other company while Rita and Zedd decide what to do with you both. Enjoy your time!" Golder threw the other into the cell as he laughed manically and slammed the door shut again.
Kim heard the door lock as she looked to where the mysterious, cloaked person... well it looked like a person... had hit the wall.
It groaned as it slammed into the solid stone, indicating that it was male.
~Just what I need.~ She thought sarcastically to herself. ~If he's not friendly then I can hold my own but I need someone to talk to before I go crazy!~
Kimberly slowly made her way to where the figure lay. He seemed to make no effort of getting up. She gasped as she saw blood on his cloak and mixing with the dust on the ground. It made a brown, red paste that grossed Kim out. She knelt down beside his head in the dim light, gently lifting it into her lap to show she was friendly. He moaned and brought a hand to his head, pushing off the hood that concealed his slightly battered face.
"IT'S YOU!" She cried in complete surprise. It was the last person she had expected to see here and one who she had desperatly wanted to talk to. Unfortunatly she was now speechless. She ran a hand softly over his cheek, noticing a cut on his lip and above his eye.
"It..it can't be..." His eyes cracked open, though it seemed to cause him pain. As did talking yet he whispered again. "Kimberly, is it you?"
"Yeah," she let tears of both happiness and sadness fall as she gave a faint smile. "It's me."
"I thought..that I'd never se- see you again." He smiled weakly and passed out.
"I'm here." She soothed his hair carefully. "I'm here."
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Ok! What did you think? Hope the time line note at the beginning didn't throw you off too much lol That should come more into play in the next chapter, but why would I post the next chapter if you don't tell me what you think of this one? Did you like it? THEN SAY SO! lol *hugs* :)