Here we are with our first installment of Tommy's perspective. I may at some point do the perspectives of other characters. It would always been interesting to get into the minds of other SRU members. We will see though. Haven't decided as of yet.

For my FP readers, episodes are kinda over the place. In season two, Behind the Blue line never happened. It's happening now. I found that the whole actions of that episode would be a good fit for the chapter.

Sorry for the lateness of this. I had some major computer issues. The problem seems to be okay now.

Tommy's perspectives is heavily influenced by the song "Fallout" by Mariana's Trench. Great song. Go check it out if you want. I am also gonna start building a soundtrack which I will post up on my profile and livejournal.

I got asked where I got the whole rivalry idea between Tommy and Sam. Anyone who has ever seen "The Yoko Factor" episode of Buffy would know. I just haven't gotten the two of them to beat the crap out of each other – yet. It could happen. I was watching Buffy when writing the last chapter and the whole "older ex-boyfriend and younger current boyfriend" battle of superiority thing is kinda awesome and sorta hot. Total inspiration there. All started with Angel's line "Don't push me, boy."

Enjoy!

Chapter 2.
Fallout.

So many things I shouldn't have missed / The more that I push / And the more you resist / its easy to say it's for the best / When you want more / While you leave me with less / I know you're fine, but what do I do? - Fallout – Marianas Trench

Tommy's perspective.

They say first impressions are everything. Well I just made myself look like a colossus asshole to the entire Team One squad. Why? Because I let the green monster take over, no pun intended. In a mix between shock of seeing Kimberly, anger of her hiding from me all these years and seeing her with Sam just made me all crazy.

Now I'm siting here in the briefing room alone trying to make sense of it all. The others were around and about and I am pretty sure Kim was still locked up in the locker room. I can't say that I blame her. I really fucked up big with her. I was just hoping I could redeem myself with the team.

I kicked the chair across from me and let out a scream of frustration.

"Good job man," Jason's said startling me as he walked into the briefing room, "You went all Scorpio on that chair."

I couldn't help but chuckle. Jason picked up the chair and sat in it as he tossed me a bottle of water. I had to admit it was nice having Jason around. He was always like a brother to me and made this foreign land a little less foreign. I nodded in thanks and opened the water.

"Alright man, what's your deal?" Jason asked calmly. "How did you end up here?"

I raised my eyebrow. "I could ask you the same."

He shrugged and leaned back. "I married young. Really young. I was seventeen when I married the first time. Her parents were more than happy to give her permission. She had just lost a massive chunk of her life and I had been there for her. We realized we were madly in love and it felt natural to marry her," Jason's voice was a mix of happy as he spoke of the memory and sadness that if was all it was.

I regretted not staying in touch with him after everything had happened. Even following our reunion of red rangers I had a chance to reconcile our friendship and I never did. I was a coward and to caught up in mopping about Kimberly.

We both noticed Kim and Sam coming out of the locker room laughing. My heart sank when I saw her beautiful face still red and tear streaked. She threw her arms around the blonde kid and kissed him lightly. She looked happy and deeply in love. I felt the green dragon road deep in my chest as the white tiger growled viciously. Seeing my crane in the arms of another man made me viciously jealous. It wasn't right. I then noticed the look on Jason's face as be watched them. It was a bittersweet look. A mix between happy and regret. I raised my eyebrow at that. I had always suspected there was something between the two of them. At least from his side. Especially when they were kidnapped by Divatox but this... This was different. From what I saw earlier, Kin looked at Jason with love and admiration. Like he was the greatest friend she ever had. That's how he always remembered it.

Jason sighed and shook his head as the couple walked towards Winnie's desk. "We were married a long time, even though we had been so young. We were living in Alberta where her family was on a ranch. It was beautiful. Even the winters were magical. She worked with the RCMP and I was just a regular uniform. We loved it. i had no doubt that we would grow old together. I mean we were married nearly thirteen years."

"Wow. That's amazing especially how young you two were," Jason nodded at me, "what happened?"

Tears filled Jason's eyes. "She got pregnant. We were beyond thrilled about it. We had the last twelve years to ourselves. She was nearing thirty and ready for a family. One winter night we went for a drive. I had been out with some of the guys from work that night and she didn't know or else she would have driven. I guess I had more than I thought and we hit some ice. It would have been so simple to avoid the crash but because I was impaired I had no reaction time."

I gasped as Jason wiped the tears from his eyes. Almost on cue Kimberly turned towards us. Care, love and concern filled her eyes as she saw the state Jason was in. I looked at Jason and asked the hard question, ignoring as Kim came towards the room with her puppy dog behind her.

"Was she killed in the accident?"

"No, she wasn't," Kim responded sadly from the door way, "She lost the baby though. The force of the car flipping caused extreme trauma. She was in the hospital for a few weeks. Depression hit her hard. Jason being the knight he is, he never left her side. Even despite his injuries." Her eyes were fighting back tears as her eyes fixated on the emotionally distraught Jason. "They tried to move on the best they could. When she discovered that he had been impaired it broke their relationship. A few months after she found out she got a job outside of Alberta. She needed to get out and she did. Without him."

My eyes moved from Kimberly to Jason. She must have been a major support for him during all of this for her to be so emotional about it.

"Didn't you try to get her back?" I asked. Both of them shot a look of daggers at me.

"Of course I did, Tommy!" Jason hollered at me as he looked me dead in the eye. "I don't just give up on someone that easily but it's not what she wanted. I followed her out of the province. We tried therapy. We tried to make it work but she threw herself into her career and she decided that she had forgiven me for what had happened but that he could never forgive lying to her that night about drinking and not telling her for nearly six months afterwords. We separated that week. I moved to Arizona for a while to work under cover and a year later as per Canadian laws, we divorced."

"It wasn't that she didn't love him or anything like that, Tommy," Kim said as she knelled down in front of Jason for moral support. Sam seemed unaffected by this all while I was glowing green within by the close bond these two shared. "Sometimes relationships just don't work."

"Yeah," Sam added, "I mean he has Ashley now."

Jason smiled admiringly at Kimberly. "Yeah. You're right Sam. She was my angel. She met me a year after I divorced and put me back together. Showed me how to love again."

"And your ex?" I asked.

Kimberly looked up at Jason and gave him a warm smile before she hugged him tightly and stood up.

"She also moved on," Kim said softly as she walked over to Sam and kissed his cheek. I growled causing Kim to glare at me. "They managed to repair their friendship. She even attended his wedding."

Okay. This was getting really strange for me. Kimberly spoke of this as if it was her memories as well. No. There's no way that Jason married...

The alarm went off. We jumped into action. Today was our first hot call as a team.

"Who the fuck do you think you are?!" Sam yelled at her went storming into the debriefing room following our hot call. He was covered in blood from the fallen soldier. i had been given Scorpio my first day with the team as I was the only one with a clear shot. When the soldier raised his gun at Sam, as much as I wish the trigger would have been pulled, I did my duty. The subject was secured.

Master Corporal Samuel Braddock fell apart after that. For a brief second I felt bad for the guy. This hit way too close to home and had developed a strong bond with the subject. I did what any one of us would have done besides Jules.

It was easy to call her Jules when she was geared up with a gun. It was an opposite personality from the happy valley girl I once knew.

Jules couldn't have pulled the trigger. Knowing how badly this would affect her boyfriend. Let him hate me. I could care less. Sam was furious now. Practically jumping over the table at me.

"He wasn't going to pull the fucking trigger! You did this out of spite!" Sam snapped at me as he lunged at me. "You wanted to throw me off my fucking game so I would leave the team. Well guess what? It worked."

Gasps filled the room. Including my own. Kim shot me a look of death.

"I quit." Sam said towards the Sarge as he threw his badge and gun into the table.

Without another word, he stomped out of the room. The team all sat around shocked. At first I was smug. He was gone and I had Kimberly to myself. Then it hit me. With him off the team they are free to carry on their relationship as they please.

Fuck. Great. Now I need to fix things.

Kimberly was no longer Kimberly when she looked at me. She was Jules. I knew she understood that I was doing my job. That I had Scorpio and I had full clearance to take out the subject threatening my team. I admit my attitude towards the kid all day probably could have been toned down. I hated Sam. I probably always would. Well as long as he has Kim.

Well technically he doesn't have Kim. He has Jules. So she will always be my Kim. Ha. In your face Sam. God Tommy, what are you, three?

I sighed heavily. I ignored the yelling going on around me and excited the room, heading towards the locker room. As I got closer I could hear the clear sound of things being thrown around the locker room. I sighed heavily and entered the war zone.

"Easy there soldier," I entered with my hands up. "I understand you are upset right now but you don't have to beat up the poor locker room."

He glared at me. "What do you want?" Venom laced his voice. "You got what you want now leave me alone, Oliver."

I shrugged and leaned against a locker. "You know I don't particularly like you. You're a loud mouth child who thinks he's larger than God because you served on the army," I scoffed. "Please boy, if anyone other then Jase and K.." I sighed. "Jules knew our past you'd no longer be the golden child. Where I come from, I am legendary."

Yes I held out my hands like a cocky mother fucker. Did I look like a moron doing it? Probably. Did I care? Not a chance.

He rolled his eyes. "You could be a fucking Power Ranger and I still would have zero respect for you."

I chucked to myself. Oh if you only knew.

"I was in California when I was a teen with my cousins. We were attacked by these goons. A guy in white game in and eliminated their asses. You could never be like them. Like the white ranger," he kicked his duffel bag. "All you are is some washed up never was who thinks the world owes you something. Guess what? It doesn't. As for you hating me, I don't give two shits. I can't stand you either. I hate how you treat her like a piece of meat."

I growled and grabbed him by the front of his bloody shirt and pushed him harshly into the locker. I may be a bit of an asshole right now, maybe even a little cave man and a meat head but I loved Kimberly dearly.

"I came in here trying to talk your pretty boy face into staying here for the benefit of the team," I snarled at him. "I try to do the right thing and you cross the line. I love Kimberly more than you ever could, punk."

With relative ease, Sam pushed me off him and laughed at me. Why was he laughing? Did I bash his head that hard and give him brain damage or something?

"You're right." He said holding his hands up in mock defeat. Where was he going with this? "You DO love Kimberly more than you. But that's because I don't know her. I know Jules. That's the girl I love and the woman you'd never be able to handle." Now he was cocky. "She isn't the same woman anymore. You don't know her. You don't know her past. You no nothing."

I laughed. "You didn't even know about her life as Kimberly."

He shook his head. "Oh I did. I know she lived in Angel Grove for a few years because of family stuff and that's all I need to know. I love her Tommy. The real girl. That's what love is. Forgiving. Never weaning. Something you would know nothing about."

I punched the kid. I am pretty sure I broke his nose. For a second I was proud.

I didn't even notice Kimberly standing in the door way. She was standing there with Jason, who had his hand on her back in a supportive nature. Daggers were shooting out of her eyes at me. I lowered my head with defeat.

"Is this how I'm always going to find you two? At each others throat?" I went to say something but she put her finger up at me like a scolding mother would. "Tommy, this isn't like you. Why are you trying to make Sam's life so difficult?"

My jaw dropped. "Me?!" Yes. I whined. "What about him? He's the one being a baby. I did what I had to do. I came in here to talk to him about staying. All of this was an accident."

"Running your car into a tree is an accident," she snapped, "Running your fist into somebody's face is a plan."

"But," I whined again. Great Tommy. You're a kid again.

"Grow up, Tommy! It stops here and now."

She walked over to Sam and looked him over. She wrapped her arms around him, whispering something I couldn't hear. It hurt to see her like that with him. I noticed Jason looked a little pained and awkward with being there. He settled for the floor. His reaction baffled me to no end. My eye fixated at the couple in front of me. If I was ever going to get her back I was going to have to change my game. They were very much in love. I can remember her looking at me as she looked at him. A few stolen kisses, despite the blood, whispers and laughter. She was happy and I knew I should be okay with that. But I don't know if I ever would be.

"Jase?" Kim's voice beamed out with a smile on her face. Guess they really were close still. Jason returned her smiled and looked at her with a warm smile on his face. "Would you mind taking Sam to get cleaned up? You guys can use my locker room if need be. Just make sure Donna isn't in there first. I think Tommy and I need to have a chat."

Jason nodded and motioned to Sam to follow him. The two were like old buddies. Like we used to be. That irritated me just as much.

"Love you Braddock!" Kim shouted with a smile. Only to get a smart ass answer from Jason followed by laughter by both men.

I growled. I felt so out of place.

Ugh. I was as moody as a woman with mega PMS. And I didn't like it.

Not one bit.

Kimberly looked at me with her arms crossed and I suddenly felt like a teenager again. Being around her was so easy. Almost natural. Even mad at me she was the most beautiful thing in the world.

"I guess we should talk," she whispered softly.

I nodded. We sat down on the benches and sat in silence.

Maybe it wasn't as natural and easy as it once was.

That's it for this chapter. Lots going on. The next chapter will be from Kim/Jules' perspective. Lots planned for that chapter. Some of the direction in this chapter was inspired by the Turbo movie. I hope you guys liked this.

Jules' perspective means lots of Jam. Some truth and maybe some hidden things that are only between certain people :O

If this seems a bit slow I'm sorry. I just want to get the first day behind us before I get into the rest of the story. It's necessary for all this to build a foundation.

I will try to get the next chapter out as soon as possible. Remember to check out my livejournal. Link is in profile. I may start posting sneak peaks on there.

Tell next time.

See you on the flip side.