DISCLAIMER: Nope not mine. I'm still wishing though.

SUMMARY: Tommy's in a coma and Kim's awake. Is Dulcea going to be able to show Tommy how much he means to his friends? Can Kim wake him up and convince him to give her a second chance?

"Tommy? Tommy, please wake up. I need to talk to you about what you heard Jason and Billy talking about."

"Kim? Kim, I'm sorry that he heard all of that." Jason was behind her but she didn't turn around.

"I don't blame you, Jase. He would have had to hear it eventually and you know that I would have left out parts of the story."

Jason smiled sadly as he nodded. "You would have left out some things just because you couldn't bear for him to see you as weak or helpless."

"I still love him, Jason. I really do." The tears started flowing down her cheeks as she sat there holding Tommy's hand. "I just want him to wake up so that I can tell him."

"He will, Pinkie. He will." His hand landed firmly on his 'little sister's' shoulder.

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Tommy and Dulcea kept walking through time, watching as the Rangers went into the Zeo phase. Adam became the Red Ranger, Billy was still blue and Rocky took on the Green Ranger powers. Jason stayed in the Command Center to advise and assist whenever he could. Granted, Billy was still the technical genius of the group but Jason was learning. Billy was getting sick. Tommy watched as Billy's health deteriorated further and further.

"Why don't they push him to go to Aquitar?"

"If you remember correctly, you were the main proponent of that plan. Billy was never a big fan of leaving the planet. He wanted to stay close to his friends. But you aren't there. Kat isn't pushing because she wants him. She wants to date him and thinks that he could possibly want her too."

"Billy and Kat? I never would have thought of that."

"Of course not. She was more interested in you than in Billy. But without you there, she latched on to Billy and when that failed, Jason."

"Jason and Kat I could have seen. But poor Billy."

"Billy survived Zeo. But by the time the team acquired the Turbo powers, Billy was so close to death that he had to pass on the powers." Tommy watched as, with his last breath, in front of all the other Rangers, Billy named Justin as his successor.

"And Prince Trey? Did Jason still take over the Gold Powers?"

"No. The Powers wouldn't accept him. They called Zack."

Tommy watched as Zack took the Gold Powers. He noticed that his friend started acting strangely as the Powers twisted him into someone that no one recognized.

"What's happening to Zack?" he asked Dulcea.

"The Gold Powers were never meant to be held by a human as you well remember from what they did to Jason. However, Zack's mind was not at its strongest point because of what was happening to Trini. He had watched her condition deteriorate as she took stronger and stronger drugs."

"I thought she hid it?"

"She tried but as things went farther and farther, Zack noticed. Unfortunately, it was too late for him to do anything. He blames himself for her ending up where she is at this point."

"Which is?"

"Living on the streets of New York City looking for her next hit. She lives with a man who deals and provides her with all the drugs she wants but she needs more all the time."

Zack lashed out at everyone toward the end. It took everyone holding him still for Prince Trey to take the Powers back. After he had regained them, he tried to help Zack by healing his fragmented mind. He was unsuccessful: Zack was just too far gone.

Tommy watched as Zack was taken to a psychiatric clinic and locked away in a padded room where he couldn't hurt anyone or himself. "Poor Zack."

"Do you understand yet, young friend? Your presence saved so many aspects of your friends' lives. How can you not see this?"

Tommy pressed on. He really was beginning to see what he meant to his friends. "What about the whole thing with Maligore? What happened there?"

"Watch. Kimberly was still captured but this time it was Aisha with her. Jason, after all, was still in Angel Grove with the team. The team rescued them but Aisha was tired of creatures coming after her because of her tie to the Rangers. She never spoke to any of them again after this. The next anyone had heard of the beloved Bear was of her death while trying to help a wounded lion. She was shot by poachers."

"What's wrong with Kim's face?" Tommy asked as he got a good look at her trapped on Divatox's ship.

"Those bruises are the direct result of the relationship she got into in Florida. The young man kept her from competing in the Pan-Global Games and has kept tight control of her ever since. He makes it a point to remind her daily that no one from her past could possibly want a washed up has been like her around."

"Kim wouldn't stand for that!" Tommy exploded.

"Maybe not here. But there she didn't have you telling her that she could do anything she wanted to. There was no one there to pull her away from this guy. He was always so very sweet to her when they first met that she believed he was the right one for her. After he had her firmly under his control, he changed. He started beating her on a regular basis."

Tommy watched as shortly after the Murianthas incident, Kimberly married the man who had given her the bruises.

Jason was at the reception. He was the only one of her male friends who was allowed to stay in contact with her. "Kimmie, you know you shouldn't have done this."

"I had to, Jase. He's the only one I have besides you. The others all hate me since the whole Maligore thing."

"You know that's not true. They just don't understand why you didn't call or write them. Why you didn't give them the chance to encourage you the way you needed. If you would just talk to them."

"It's too late, Rex. I lost them and Dorian is the only that wants me."

Tommy watched as that night Kim's new husband beat her until she was unconscious. When she came to, he threw her on the bed and raped her until he was satisfied.

She crawled out of the bed and into the bathroom to clean herself up. She then crawled back into the bedroom and curled up on the small pallet of blankets on the floor beside the window, crying herself to sleep.

"Can you not see how much better their lives are with you?"

"Dulcea, they can't possibly be that helpless without me."

"Tommy, do you not see that without you, Jason has to keep things together? Would you like to see what happened to him after Adam, Rocky, Kat and Tanya gave up their powers?"

Tommy nodded. Dulcea inclined her head and signaled for the young man to follow her.