"Well can hear anything?" Tracey asked.
Jason and Kevin waved to Tracey to stay quiet. Tommy stood next to Tracey. She was the same height as Kim if not just a little taller, even though she was only 11.
"Mom is coming!" Jason said as he and Kevin backed away from the wall and everyone sat down at the table, like that is where they had been the whole time.
Anita came in the room; she looked at the kids, especially her son. Jason smiled at her, he hadn't heard anything and eavesdropping was a waste of time. Anita knows her son and figured he had been eavesdropping.
"Hi mom, what is up?" Jason asked with a smile.
"What didn't you hear enough, when you were eavesdropping?" She asked back.
Jason smile faded and his eyes went wide. "We didn't hear anything?" He admitted.
"Anita, are we staying here?" Tracey asked innocently.
"Yes Tracey, you and Kevin will stay here. Peter went to get your bags." Anita told the child giving her a hug.
"Mom, what about Kimberly?" Jason asked.
"Kimberly will stay here, when she is released from the hospital." Anita said.
Tommy and Jason looked at each other; Kimberly is still in the hospital. How will she handle this, when she wakes up? They wondered.
"Anita, did Social Services say why they are doing this to us?" Kevin asked.
Anita nodded, but she doesn't know how she is going to explain to the kids what is going on in their lives. Kevin and Tracey were looking at her with their wide eyes.
"Caroline and Austin both petition the court for full custody, claiming the other was unfit. That with their history of fighting in front of their children; and the fight they got into at the hospital. It raised a red flag with Social Services; they are going to petition that Caroline and Austin parental rights are terminated." Anita explained.
"What about the other kids, is dad going to lose the kids with Penny? Are mom and Ben going to lose their kids too?" Tracey asked.
"No, only the 3 kids that they share." Anita told her.
"What will happen to us, once their rights are terminated?" Kevin asked.
"You three will be put up for adoption, in the meantime you will stay here with us." Anita told them.
"Does that mean they won't be our parents anymore?" Tracey asked.
Anita quietly nodded her head. Jason and Tommy had been sitting there listening to this. Kim's life is turned upside down and she doesn't even know.
"Mom, we have to go to the hospital. We can't just let Kim wake up and find out that she had been taken away by some Social Worker." Jason pleaded.
Anita gave serious thought to what Jason said. To have her find out like that, while in the hospital; could cause a relapse. Peter came back in with the kids bags; they had packed very little when they left.
"I am going to the hospital!" Anita told her husband.
"To check on Kimberly?" Peter replied.
Anita nodded.
"We're coming too!" Jason announced.
"Fine, go. I will stay here with Kevin and Tracey and help them get settled." Peter told them.
On the way to the hospital, everyone was quiet. Jason and Tommy kept thinking about their fellow Ranger and how she is going to handle this. Anita let them off in front of the hospital; they walked through the doors to the elevator, and took it up to the 4th floor.
"Going up, 4th floor; clothes, food and of course Kimberly!" Jason said laughing.
Tommy actually smiled, he knew his friend is trying to cheer him up before they go and see her. As they got off the elevator, Tommy ran into his parents.
"Tommy, Jason, what are you doing here?" Michelle asked.
"How's Kimberly!" Tommy asked.
"She keeps trying to wake up, but so far she hasn't." John answered.
"Mom is parking the car; we came to hopefully warn Kim." Jason tried to explain.
John and Michelle nodded.
"We heard, Social Services were here about an hour ago. They told us. Is she staying at your house Jason?" Michelle asked.
"Yes, so are Kevin and Tracey." Jason admitted.
"We didn't want her to wake up and find out from a Social Worker about her parents. Can we go see her?" Tommy said.
"May we!" John corrected his son's grammar.
"May we go see Kimberly?" Tommy asked trying it again.
"Check in with the cop posted outside her door, and if he says it is okay. Then yes." John informed the teens.
Tommy and Jason wondered why is there a cop posted outside the door. They saw him sitting there with a clipboard. They walked up slowly to the cop, so they don't catch him off guard. The cop saw them coming, got up and stood in front of the door.
"Hold it right there boys! I need your names." The cop said.
"I'm Jason Scott and he is Tommy Oliver." Jason told him.
"Jason Scott and Tommy Oliver," The cop repeated looking at his clipboard. "Alright sign this sheet and you may enter." He finished handing the clipboard to them.
Jason took a quick glance at the clipboard, before signing. The first page read "people not allowed to be admitted, Caroline Jacobs, Austin Hart, Penelope Hart, Ben Jacobs," The list went on then naming Kimberly step and half-sibling on both sides of her family. Jason signed the paper and handed it to Tommy who signed under Jason's name. Tommy handed the clipboard back to the cop and he stepped aside. Jason and Tommy calmly entered Kimberly's room.
"What was that about?" Tommy asked Jason once the cop closed the door.
"It appears that they are not allowing Kim's family to see her." Jason said sadly, hard to believe that it all had come down to this.
Kim was still lying there; sounds were coming out of her mouth. But she remained unconscious. Tommy went to one side of her bed and Jason went to the other side. They took her hands begged her to wake up.
"Come on Beautiful, time to wake up!" Tommy said giving her a kiss on the lips.
Slowly Kimberly opened her eyes and stared at him and then she looked around the room and saw Jason also there.
"WH-Where am I?" she asked.
"Kimberly, you are in the hospital. You were attacked by Scorpina." Tommy told her.
Kim blinked a few times.
"I want to see my mom." She asked for.
Tommy and Jason looked at each other, now they have to do, what it is that they had come to do.
"You can't Kim. You, Kevin and Tracey are staying at my house for the time being." Jason told her.
Kim looked at him confused. "Why?"
"Unfortunately, Social Services took you guys away because they got into another insane screaming match. They both tried to terminate the other parental rights to you 3. Social Services got involved and are petitioning the court to terminate their rights all together to the 3 of you. You can't see any of them right now. According to Social Services, that is." Jason explained.
"What happened to me?" She asked the boys.
"Goldar said that they were an experiment to see if you were really as weak and fragile as you appeared to be. But you won, you overcame it." Tommy told her with a smile.
"They would have to know that you are not all that fragile. If you were, you wouldn't be a Power Ranger!" Jason told her.
"She is a WHAT?!"
