Kim screamed and began to fight the bonds once again.

She looked up as she heard Nick laughing and saw Tommy's body hanging limply from the rope.

"No!" screamed Kim, as she began to fight harder. She had to reach Tommy before it was too late.

Nick continued to laugh manically as he took a machete and cut Tommy down. He fell into a heap on the floor of the barn, blood streaming out of the bullet wound. Nick then turned his attention to Kim as she struggled against the ropes. They were now digging into her skin and rubbing it raw, but Kim didn't care- she had to get to Tommy. Nick looked down at her and smiled.

"If I thought for one second I could trust you to keep quite about this I wouldn't kill you," he said, as he circled her like a vulture does his dying prey. "But I know how much you loved him, so I'm afraid I will have to dispose of you, Kimberly. Like all the others, you will just get in my way."

Kim looked up at him and choked, "Others- what others?"

Nick smiled evilly. "Oh you think that you are the first person that this has happened to? Well, sadly to say Kimberly, you are not."

Kim's eye widened in shock and horror as she listened to Nick's ratings.

"After junior high, my relatives thought it wise to move me to a different school. Somewhere people weren't whispering behind their hands about me. You see, I put on a façade that what they were saying really hurt me. They were so stupid, but what did I care, I now had fresh hunting ground and I set my sites on the head cheerleader, Jana Morrow. She was the most popular girl in school and I vowed to myself that by the end of high school I would have her and have her I did. Fortunate for me, the blond wasn't very bright, so I had her eating out of my palms within a month."

As Nick had been talking, he had drug out a large trunk, kicked it open, and lifted out a pair of green and white pompoms. He put the poms to his face and inhaled, as if he could still smell Jana's perfume on them.

With a murderous smile he continued, "I can still hear her begging for me not to kill her. Like you, she figured out what was going on, but by then it was too late for her to do anything. I remember the night I killed her as if it was yesterday. I had just taken her to prom and later we went to a hotel room. After I had had my fun, I slipped some belladonna in her glass of wine and once she was dead, I emptied about eight bottles of wine and threw the remains around her." Nick laughed as he added. "The idiot police ruled her death as alcohol poisoning and from there I went off to medical school."

Nick threw the poms back into the trunk and began to circle Kim again. She turned her head from side to side so that she could see Nick; she somehow seemed entranced by his words. How could someone who seemed so sweet turn out to be so evil?

"At college I met a wonderful woman named Ariel. She was the exact opposite of Jana and so I chose her as my next trophy. Ariel, however, was smarter than Jana, so I had to be extremely careful about how I went about drugging her. It took me about a year to do it properly, but once I had her, it was heavenly. She bent to my every whim and was way more stimulating that Jana, but all great things must come to an end. During my last year in medical school, she to figured out what was going on."

As Nick talked, he pulled out a woman's sweater and a lock of reddish brown hair. He smelled the sweater and sighed, like he had done with the pompoms.

Rubbing the lock of hair on his cheek he continued, "I can still hear her scream as the poison worked through her body. After classes, I found her sleeping in her dorm room; she had been avoiding me the entire week. I figured that she knew what I had done to her, so I snuck into her room and injected her with Black Widow spider venom. The moment the needle pierced her flesh she woke up. I restrained her as the poison worked its way through her body. She writhed in pain and I saw the light leave her eyes as she died. It was an empowering feeling and I'll have to admit, I rather enjoyed taking peoples lives."

Nick then stopped and smiled at Kim as he drew a very odd looking doll from the trunk. Kim gasped as she saw the doll, the moment she set eyes on it she knew who the doll belonged to.

"Mr. Ticklesneezer," Kim let out in a quite whisper. She turned to look back at Nick and tried to lunge forward. "What have you done to Trini?" she screamed.

Nick laughed and replied, "Don't you remember? Trini has been dead for almost five years now."

Kim began to shake her head hysterically. She didn't want to believe that her best friend was dead, killed by this maniac.

"Yes, but then of course you won't remember." Nick threw the doll at Kim and continued, "She had come out with us to dinner and noticed immediately the change in your behavior. When I excused myself to go to the restroom, I overheard her tell you that something was wrong and you believed her! So, when she went to check her voicemail, I slipped outside and cut her brakes. She died in a car crash a few miles down the road from the restaurant. The next day I upped your meds and by the end of the day you didn't even know the name Trini and you obviously didn't go to the funeral."

With tears in her eyes Kim, looked down at the doll lying at her feet. How could she have brought so much pain to those around her? This was all her fault. Trini's death Tommy's; hers -all of it, because she had chosen to befriend the shy guy.

Nick stepped in front of her and with a finger, lifted her chin up.

"It's a damn shame that I must dispose of you," Nick said as he had begun to travel down her neck. "You were my best trophy; intelligent, beautiful, and a wildcat in bed."

As his hand grasped her breast, Kim tried to attack, but it was futile as she was tied up.

"See what I mean? You're a fiery, spunky girl. Even through you are tied to a chair, you still try to attack me," Nick choked out through his laughter.

"You are a despicable monster. And make no mistake, Nicholai, you will be caught!" Kim spat

The amused expression on Nick's face vanished, as he turned to look at her. "You will not take that tone of voice with me Kimberly, remember I control you still."

Kim was about to retort, when Nick suddenly pressed his lips against hers in a hard passionate kiss. As his tongue snaked into her mouth, Kim closed her teeth around it sharply; Nick pulled away screaming and clutching his mouth.

She looked up at him with a triumphant smile on her face.

Nick's face turned blood red as he pulled a gun out from behind his back. "Do say hello to Trini for me."

Kim closed her eyes as she heard the gun cock. She knew death was coming, but she didn't want to see it, nor did she want to see the look of pure ecstasy on Nick's face. She winced as it went off, but strangely, she felt no pain. Before Kim could open her eyes to check what had happened, she heard a voice.

"No, Nicholai, you go to hell."

Kim's eyes flew open as she saw Tommy standing behind Nick, holding a gun. He was panting hard and leaning heavily against the barn wall.

Dropping the gun, Tommy pushed himself off of the wall and staggered towards Kim. When he reached her, he pulled a knife from his back pocket and began to hack away the ropes.

"Tommy, you're alive!?" Kim choked out through the happy tears streaming down her face.

Tommy laughed harshly, "You know for a doctor, he sure doesn't know how to shoot a person to kill them."

Kim began to rub her now freed wrist as she said, "What do you mean, Tommy?"

"If he had pointed about an inch higher, I would be dead," he explained, as he helped Kim to her feet.

The smile that was beginning to spread across her face vanished as she saw Tommy begin to stagger backwards and collapse. With a pounding head, Kim rushed to her fallen knight.

"Tommy, Tommy- please wake up. You can't leave me, not now not ever. Oh please Tommy, stay with me, stay with me!" Kim pleaded, as she pulled the cell phone out of her back pocket and dialed 911. Once she had told the operator what had happened, she hung up and turned her attention back to Tommy. Fighting the unbearable need to close her eyes, Kim laid down next to him and began to whisper to him.

Kim was only semi-conscious when the ambulance pulled up.

As one of the EMTs rushed over to them, Kim grabbed a hold of her uniform and asked, "Who are you?"

"My name is Jena ma'am," Jena replied, frantic to calm the beaten woman down.

"Jena, save Tommy first. Please save Tommy first, it's all my fault, my fault."

Jena looked over at Lisa as she was checking on the man with the bullet wound.

"Ma'am, my partner, Lisa, is going to help Tommy." Jean assured her and then added to Lisa, "We need to get them to the hospital."

"This guy has already lost a lot of blood; I don't know if he will make it," Lisa replied as she looked at her partner.

As she looked past Jena, Lisa saw another body lying in the dust. She pointed it out to Jena, who immediately went over to see if the man was alive.

"This one's dead," Jena called over her shoulder, as she checked for his pulse.

When they put Tommy and the woman onto stretchers, they noticed that the woman was clinging to Tommy as if he were life itself. Then with the siren's blaring, they rushed off to the hospital to save the two people in the back.

Almost done! Now I hope that you guys didn't really think that I would actually kill one of greatest and hottest rangers in the history of the show. I want to especially thank Jena and Lisa who not only saved Tommy and Kim's lives, but they are the winners of my brownie points contest. Congrats girls and a specail thanks to everyone who participated. Sorry for the long update, but I was having problems with my ffnet account as I'm sure we all were. Anyway as always please review and I will see you in the next and final chapter!