"What are you doing back so fast?" Tommy asked as Jason appeared on his front porch and Tommy gave him a confused look. He had been sure that Jason was going to go home to Emily and forget Trini, yet again. Obviously something had changed this time, something that he couldn't quite put his finger on.

"I needed to come back, I have to figure some things out," Jason said as Tommy barely nodded and then opened the door a little bit wider to allow Jason to follow him inside.

"You're not the only one, Jase," Tommy said as Jason looked over at him and Tommy let out a long sigh. He did not really want to go into what had happened, but he knew that Jason would pull it out of him one way or another. "I'm gonna have to talk to her, even if she doesn't want to. If I don't, things will go to hell quicker than you can say morphinaminal."

"Why would it go to hell?" Jason asked as Tommy looked over at him and then walked into the kitchen to grab them both beers. He was sure that they were going to need it after they were done here.

"Jase…you know how many years that I've sat here in this house by myself and thought about her? It's too many for me to count and then to have it thrown in my face that she can still become evil towards me because things were left unresolved…I can't take it anymore," Tommy said as Jason gratefully took his beer and then sat down next to Tommy on the couch, mimicking his posture, as leaned his elbows on his knees.

"So what are we going to do?" Jason asked as Tommy looked over at him. He had not thought that Jason would seek a solution this soon and then took a gulp of beer. He thought that they would be honestly trashed before they even got around to all of this and then they would only throw around bull shit comments before passing out to wake up with one hell of a hangover.

"We? I'm not even sure what I'm going to do, I can't give you any advice on what you should do. If you haven't noticed, this isn't my specialty," Tommy said as Jason let out a sigh.

"It's just that I don't know what she wants…it's different with the two of you. At one time you cared more about each other than anyone else in the world, but I never let her get that close to me, I always kept her away for fear that I'd lose her if she got that close," Jason said as Tommy looked over at him.

"Then you have a problem my friend," Tommy said as Jason decided to play along.

"What would tell you that?" Jason asked as Tommy smiled.

"The fact that you are here talking with me instead of talking to her," Tommy said as Jason opened his mouth to speak, but then closed it again. He had the distinct feeling that Tommy did not want to hear any excuses for his actions.

"Okay, so I'm a chicken," Jason said as Tommy barely nodded his head in agreement. "But what is your excuse?"

"I've already had my heart broken once by her, I'm not sure if I can stand to have it happen again," Tommy said as Jason sighed. He had never even given Trini the chance to do that, although he doubted that she would have.

"But that's no reason to not try again…you were both teenagers back then, things have changed and maybe you can make things work this time. It does help that you live on the same side of the country again," Jason said as Tommy looked over at him.

"Do you honestly believe that or are you just telling me that to get me off your case?" Tommy asked as Jason looked down at the floor. In all honesty it was a little bit of both, but he would never say that to him.

"I know that she still cares for you Tommy…" Jason trailed off as Tommy looked over at him.

"I went out on a limb for her last time, I'm not doing it again. If she wants to try to work things out then she will have to come to me on her own. I've given her more than enough chances Jase," Tommy said as Jason just sighed. They had all been trying for years to get the two of them back together, but they both stubbornly refused it. To the outside world they were madly in love, they just couldn't admit it to themselves. To those that knew them, it was another story. They knew that they loved each other and at one time had admitted it, but now they knew only disappointment and despair.

"I don't know if I would consider one chance as more than enough," Jason said as Tommy looked at him out of the corner of his eye.

"You're bull shitting me right? You haven't even given her the first chance and you are telling me that I should just give Kim another chance? Listen to yourself and tell me if it makes any sort of sense," Tommy said as Jason let out a sigh. He had not wanted to fight with Tommy, he had wanted to be able to just try to straighten out his thoughts.

"I just need to think about all of it some more," Jason said as Tommy shook his own head.

"You haven't been able to do that in all the time that you have known her?" Tommy asked as Jason just shook his head.

"It's different for me Tommy, by telling her I could lose her. You've already lost Kim before, I've never been without her and I don't know if I could survive that," Jason said as Tommy closed his mouth, recognizing that Jason was utterly confused about what to do.

"You won't lose her, Jase. The only way that that will happen is if you don't tell her the truth and just keep living like this. One day someone will realize what she is a beautiful woman and she'll realize it's the best that she can get, you don't want to live to see that day," Tommy said as Jason barely nodded. He had thought about it in the past, but now that it was being placed in front of him, he knew that he had only one choice. He had to catch the first plane that he could find to North Carolina and pray that she would hear him out. He couldn't lose her to another man, not after the revelation that he had had.