DISCLAIMER: Nope not mine. But I still wish.

SUMMARY: The gang is getting to know Kim's daughters while Kim's in the hospital with Tommy by her side. Justin's on his way to Angel Grove trying to escape his uncle who's the reason for Kim being in the hospital.

A/N: Thanks to all of you who have left reviews. I really enjoy reading them.


A knock on the door had Tommy wide awake and standing facing the door in an instant. He felt Kim's hand on his back. She was scared and he knew it.

"Who's there?" he called.

"It's us, bro. Jason, Kat, Zack, Billy, Trini and the girls. Is it alright to come in?"

Tommy relaxed just a little. "Yeah, man. Come on in." The door opened and the gang came in. "Hi, guys."

Kim was tense behind him. She still wasn't sure about this. She wasn't sure that involving her friends would solve anything. She was sure that Trevor would find her. She hadn't told Tommy about the threats Trevor had made against her and the girls. She hadn't told him anything about Trevor.

Tommy stepped around to the other side of the bed and Kat brought Kim's daughters to her side. "Mommy!" Bri cried, reaching out as if to touch her mother. Her hand stopped short when she became uncertain of whether or not she should. Her eyes brimmed with tears that were about to spill over and Tommy wanted to wrap up the girls in his embrace and protect them and Kim until this was over for good.

"It's okay, Bri. You can touch me," Kim said, on the verge of tears herself. "In fact, I think it might make me feel better if you and your sister would give me hugs and kisses since I didn't get to tuck you in for bed last night." Bri tried to climb up on the bed only to find Jason picking her up so that she could hug her mom and kiss her before he set her down and did the same for TJ. "I love you, girls. Are you being good for my friends?"

"They are," Trini said.

"They certainly are," chimed in Kat. "Bri even helped me to fix breakfast for everyone."

"That's my girls." Kim was smiling but the tears still shimmered in her eyes.

"Well, Bri helped. TJ spent the time interrogating the rest of us about our past with you," Zack chuckled.

"TJ, didn't I tell you not to do that?" Kim scolded, worried that she had made a bad impression on the Rangers by asking too many questions.

"I had to, Mommy. It's just who I am."

"My little guardian," Kim chuckled, wincing as her ribs protested. "She's always trying to protect me and Bri."

Tommy walked around the bed and knelt down in front of TJ. "I tell you what, TJ. Why don't I help you out a little? I'll watch over your mom and you watch out for Bri."

"You're Tommy aren't you?" At his nod, TJ nodded. "Thought so. I wear your color. We'll make a good team."

Tommy shook the hand his daughter held out to him. "The best," he laughed.

Kat took Bri's hand and looked at TJ as Tommy stood. "How about the three of us go down to the next floor down? I hear there's a playroom there for the kids on the cancer ward." The two little girls nodded and followed Kat out of the room.

The door had no sooner closed behind them then Kim broke down. She was crying so hard that her ribs hurt and that made her cry even harder. Tommy just sat down on the edge of the bed and wrapped his arms around her, stroking her hair.

The others crowded close as possible to offer their comfort and strength to their fragile friend not realizing that just outside the door, TJ had to do the same thing for her sister.


Justin was so preoccupied with getting to Angel Grove before his uncle found out what he had done that he forgot to watch behind him. He didn't see the Hummer coming up behind him until it bumped him.

"Oh shit!" He tried to steer to another lane but the vehicle just followed him. It bumped him harder and harder until he lost control of the car and went off the road. The car rolled over and over, throwing Justin around inside until it came to a stop at the base of the hill. The Hummer stopped to see if he was alive or dead but pulled away when another car pulled up to see if they could help.

The people in the second car jumped out. The woman pulled out a cell phone and dialed for help while her husband ran down the hill to see if the person inside was alive or not.

"Oh God! Justin!" The last voice the young man heard before he went unconscious was that of the man who had given him the mantle of the Blue Ranger.


Tanya and Adam had just walked into the hospital when there was a call for an ambulance at a car crash. They watched as a room was prepped for what was sure to be a serious injury.

They walked up to the nurse's station. "Excuse me. I'm looking for a Kimberly Hart. I was told that she had been admitted last night."

"And your names please?" the nurse asked pleasantly. At their confused look, she clarified. "I was given a specific list of people who would be allowed to see Ms. Hart."

Tanya nodded. "I understand. I'm Dr. Tanya Sloan and this is Adam Park."

The nurse looked down at her list and nodded. "There you are. She's in room 306."

"Do you know anything about the car crash coming in?"

"It was a one car accident. Apparently a young man went off the road. He's still alive but we aren't sure if he's going to make it. The woman who called it in said the driver's name was Justin Stewart." The nurse looked up as Tanya gasped. "Are you alright, Dr. Sloan?"

"I know that young man. We both do. Is there anything I can do to help?" She thought about the time that he had told her his plan.

FLASHBACK

"Tanya, it's Justin."

"What's up, Justin?" Tanya was puzzled. Why had he called her?

"I've got a plan to get Kimberly and the girls out of here. I've earned my uncle's trust enough to be the one who drives her to see the girls all on my own. I'm going to take her for her usual visit and then, take her and the girls to the bus station and get them out of here. I'll put them on the bus to Angel Grove. She'll be able to find Billy once they get there."

"Be careful, Justin. If he finds out that you did this …"

Justin sighed. "I know, Tanya. I just can't let this continue though. He's seriously on the verge of killing her. I can't let that happen. Not with those two beautiful girls nearby. I can't let anyone rob them of their mother." Tanya knew what Justin was talking about; he had lost his mother so young that it really bothered him to think of anyone losing theirs.

"I'll do what I can to help you, Justin. Just tell me."

"I need to do this alone, Tanya. I don't want anyone else getting caught up in the fallout. The girls will be safe in Angel Grove. I know it."

FLASHBACK ENDS

"Dr. Sloan?" the nurse asked. "If you would like, the attending doctor has said that he would appreciate some help with the patient."

Tanya turned to Adam. "You go on up and see Kim, sweetie. I'll be up as soon as Justin is taken care of. Tell the others where I am. I'll check on Kim when I come up."

Adam nodded and left. He knew better than to argue when Tanya had made up her mind.


Kat and the twins walked into the playroom to find about ten other children in there. Kat sat down on a chair on one side of the room and watched as Bri and TJ quickly made friends with at least two other children. The children played quietly as Kat read a magazine.


Kim had finally quieted down and the others had pulled back from her and Tommy so that she wouldn't feel crowded. "Better?" he asked as she pulled back to lean against the pillows behind her.

She nodded. "I'm sorry."

"You don't need to apologize, sis. We're here for you. Whatever you and those two girls need. It doesn't matter if it's just being a shoulder to cry on now and then," Jason told her.

Tommy spoke up then. "Kim, will you tell us what happened?"

She nodded. "It all started just weeks after I got to Florida. There was this guy. He seemed to be hanging out at the gym a lot. Then I found out why; his little brother was on the men's team."

FLASHBACK

"Hi," the young man said, holding out his hand. "My name's Trevor Alexander."

"I'm Kimberly Hart."

"Would you like to go out sometime, Kimberly?" He was smooth but she wasn't interested.

"No, thank you. I don't think my boyfriend would like that and I know I wouldn't like it if he started dating other girls while I was here."

"I think it's only fair to warn you; I'm very persistent when I see something I want."

"You can try. But Tommy and I are the real thing." With that, she flounced away.

FLASHBACK ENDS

"What happened?" Trini asked.

"Persistent wasn't the word. Every time I had practice, Trevor showed up. Every afternoon, I came back from lunch, if you want to call it that, to a dozen red roses. Every day he asked me to go out with him. Most of the time he just wanted me to go to dinner with him. I got so tired of it that I went one night. We went to dinner and then he walked me home and left."

"Sounds harmless enough." When Tommy turned to glare at Billy for that comment, Billy was quick to answer the look. "What? Did you expect her to lock herself in her room when she wasn't training?"

Tommy realized what Billy was saying and shook his head. "No. Of course not. I didn't want that for her. She deserved better."

"And Trevor tried to give it to me. He took me out to dinner almost every night. Most of the time we took a few of my teammates with us so that no one would think that I was cheating on Tommy. It was my idea and he allowed it. He didn't pressure me to break up with you or anything. It was as if he was perfectly content to have my company. Then, I was working out one day and he was there watching me. I didn't realize that he was there until his cell phone rang. It startled me and I fell from the uneven bars, the higher one."

Everyone gasped. Tommy remembered when she had fallen off the beam here at Angel Grove. He had been so scared when they brought her to the hospital. He'd been afraid she wouldn't wake up.

"It knocked the breath out of me. Everyone ran to see if I was okay. Trevor turned off the phone and put it in his pocket so he could find out if I was okay. He knelt beside my head and brushed my hair back from my face. He apologized to me, to the coach, to the whole team. I was crying when they asked me what was wrong. I couldn't feel my legs. There was no feeling there. I just couldn't believe it. That was when I wrote the letter."

They were all in tears as they listened to what Kim had gone through. Jason knew about this part but to watch the emotions play across her face as she relived the events was tearing her up inside.

"I sent it to the Youth Center because I was hoping that someone would see the return address. I had written the letter sitting in a hospital bed, hoping that the feeling would come back to my legs. But accepting the fact that it might never return. I sent it there because, knowing Tommy, he would have just torn it open and read the letter without looking at the address. I was hoping someone else might see the envelope and wonder why it had been sent there and look at the return address."

Tommy hung his head. All this time he had thought she was so happy in Florida and she had been dealing with a potentially career ending injury. All he could think of was how much this had hurt him. He was ashamed of himself for not trying to find out what was going on.

"Tommy, don't," she whispered, covering his hand with her own. "I don't blame you. It wasn't the best way to do things but I can't change that now. I acted on emotion, just like you did when you simply let me go." She took a deep breath. "While I was in the hospital, Jason came to see me. He wanted to call you the minute he found out what was going on. I told him no and made him promise that you would never find out about this from him. When he finally gave me the promise, I told him the whole truth about the accident."

"I couldn't believe that she was so calm when she told me. She told me that she had asked her teammates to pack her things so she could go home. She made it sound like she had accepted the whole thing as being hopeless."

"Then, about four days after Jason showed up at the door, I felt something. It wasn't much; just a tingle in my big toe. But the sensation grew until all the feeling had returned to my legs." Kim was talking now as if she was still there. "Jason offered to take me back to Angel Grove for a visit. He knew there was a martial arts competition coming up and he figured I'd be able to talk to Tommy and tell him the truth. Of course, all of our plans went straight to hell when Divatox captured Jason and I."

She smiled grimly as she related the next part of the story. "What I didn't tell Jason was that Trevor had told me that this was to be a final goodbye to my old life. He told me that he planned on consummating our relationship when I returned. I had to think fast while I was here. I couldn't let him take my virginity when I got back. There was only one person that I wanted to have that." 'Now or never, Kim. This is where you find out if he hates you.' The deep breath she took as she prepared to tell the next part worried everyone but Tommy.

Before she could say another word, he spoke, "I knew that wasn't a dream." Kim just looked at him in shock. "You snuck into my room that night after Jason brought me home and made love to me. You gave me the most precious gift I've ever received."

"But I thought you'd be convinced it was just a drunken dream."

"If not for the blood and the ---" he paused looking at his friends. "--- evidence you left behind, I might have believed it. But the blood on my sheets alone was enough to tell me that what we did was no dream." He had spoken so softly the others weren't sure they heard him correctly. "That was why Kat and I broke up the next day. I couldn't be with her when you had given me the one thing I had always dreamed of."

"Tommy, I'm sorry." Kim was almost in tears again.

Wrapping his arms back around her, he pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "I don't hate you, Kim. I couldn't."

"Still, I wish I could have told you."

"You did what you felt you had to. Just as I did by letting you go."

"When I went back I was terrified. I was going to break it off with Trevor. I didn't want him. I wanted you." She sat back. "That was when he changed."