Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers. Yeah, that's all I'm writing. No cutesy 'if I did...' thing. But if I did... Life would be fun ;]

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Heartbeat

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The usually soft beep of the EKG were deafening in the apprehensive and nearly empty hospital room. The only things in the room were the machines, the young woman hooked up to the machines on the bed, and the young man sitting beside her.

The young woman was lying on her back, her face littered with cuts and bruises, while explicitly showing her pain. Her features were horribly expressive, despite her being unconscious.

A small sigh escaped the man next to her, as he surveyed her. She looked so beaten, so meek compared to how bubbly and lively she usually was.

It's painful to see her like this, broken, and he can only imagine how she feels. He could have prevented this too, and that makes it even harder.

He hates seeing her without a smile on her face, or that twinkle in her eyes. He's never told her this, but now...

Now he's considering telling her everything. Doing anything to make her react and act alive again. He wants her to wake up, and he's pretty sure he'd do even the most heinous things to get that to happen.

He'd make a deal with the devil for her.

Usually when they hang out, they never act serious, they try to keep it really light, considering how serious their jobs are. Now, he wishes that they had discussed more personal matters, like hopes and dreams. He doesn't even know where she grew up, how she got into sports, what her middle name is, why she always lets things just roll off her. He doesn't know why she crinkles her nose when she laughs, he doesn't know why she acts so silly all the time, yet doesn't believe in happy endings. He doesn't know.

And he wants to. He desperately wants to know everything. He wants to know so badly, that he hasn't slept or relaxed at all since she was put in the hospital.

Beeping noises tell him that she's stable, and he should be happy about that, but... he just wants her back. He wants her to wake up, take off the bandages, punch him in the shoulder and say it was all just a joke.

A really tasteless joke. But he's grown used to her strange sense of humor in the days they've spent together. That would be something that she would pull, and that makes him smile.

He feels bad about smiling for a moment, how can he smile when she's... she's...

No one in the hospital told any of the Rangers about their comrade's condition. Apparently being teammates doesn't count as much as being related by blood in the eyes of the government.

He knows they're wrong. He gets her, understands her life much better than any of her relatives, that's one of the things that she has told him.

He remembers all his times with her, every awkward touch, fake fight, and cheerful and cheeky banter that they had exchanged. There is no way that he won't remember them now, the fear of losing her making him treasure them even more.

She's here, injured, partly because of him, partly because of herself, (but he refuses to blame her) and partly because of the stupid villains that always seem to be attacking the town. Those useless, annoying, and vicious creatures, caused her to almost die.

He's thought about killing the demons hundreds of times by now, each time by a different way, and he's sure that all of the other Rangers would help him out. It was like an unspoken, but widely practiced code, that when you messed with one Ranger, you messed with them all.

Thinking about Ranger business puts him on edge, and he tenses. They met because of it, but he hates how much danger they're put in because of it.

But he wouldn't give it up. Being relieved as a Ranger meant that he'd have to cease seeing her, and there was no way that he would do that willingly.

Sighing, he looks at the opened door. The man gives him a sheepish look, so full of pity and understanding that he wants to punch him. Visiting hours are over and he has to leave, despite him not wanting too.

A lot of things are happening that he doesn't want to happen.

The man leaves, intending to give him time to say goodnight to her, and he's thankful for that at least. He's always hated saying goodbye, he's said it so many times; to his mom, his dad, his sister...

So, he doesn't say goodbye to her, he just says that he'll see her later. Because unlike everyone else, she'll get better, she has too. She has the Power on her side.

Leaning down, he kisses the part of her forehead that isn't marked, and stands up. He grabs her hand, squeezes it and hopes she can hear what he's gonna say.

"You're gonna get better Kelsey, you have to. Saving the world won't mean anything, if you're not there too."

After that, he turns and walks to the door. He knows that she'll be okay, and right now, he's got work to do. He's going to find those demons and make them pay for what they did to her.

As he leaves, the beeping of the EKG follows him out.

And he smiles.

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A/N: Hmmmm, I wonder if the fact that Chad's Asian makes this an Asian drama. If it does, than my friends will be very happy. They love Asian dramas (which I don't understand -_-*).