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Summary: Tommy reflects on the difference between green and white.
AN: I don't have a beta at the moment so if I've missed something in my editing or you have any critique please let me know.
Tommy sometimes wondered if he had ever felt completely clean when wearing the green ranger suit. He knew the feeling had probably just been in his mind but somehow the energy of that suit had just felt...wrong. Tainted. Even after Jason had destroyed the Sword of Darkness and the spell had been broken, Tommy had always been deathly terrified the evil would it would take him over again somehow.
He would never tell any of them this but part of him had been secretly relieved when the power began to fail. Even though it had meant that he would end up spending less time with his friends and..Kimberly, that he wouldn't be there for them when they needed it most, part of him was happy to go back to being a regular teenager. The kind that never got captured and put under evil spells.
He had almost refused when Zordon asked him to become the new white ranger. Almost. Some part of him wouldn't let the words come out though. He knew becoming the white ranger was the right decision to make. He would get to be there for his friends when they needed him. There would no longer be this huge divide between him and Kimberly whom he realized he was falling hopelessly in love with. And he finally accepted that being a ranger was part of his destiny.
It had been the right choice to make. Being the white ranger was...amazing. The energy was so much cleaner, so much more pure, than the green power coin had been. Even if the difference WAS only in his mind, as Zordon assured him. The white ranger wasn't evil, had never been evil, WOULD never be evil. He was pure. And it was such a relief that Tommy almost cried.
He didn't know what the future held for him...but now he had hope that it was good. That he was good. Sometimes a niggling doubt in his head said that evil wasn't done with him, that it was just biding time. But he told himself that, as long as wore white, he was pure. He was Kimberly's white knight. And he would save the world.