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Chapter One
She stood starring out over the ocean and the captivating California sunset. The ocean waves broke against the razor sharp cliffs sending a soft mist up to where she stood. Tears were flowing freely down her tan face and the soft wind whipped her long chocolate colored hair into disarray. It felt good to be back in Angel Grove yet she wished she had come home from Florida on better terms. No she was called home for the last days of a friend's life.
Kimberly Hart clasped her arms around her and choked back a sob. Trini Kwan had lost her battle with cancer. Kim felt very alone without one of her closest and oldest friends around. Trini had kept her cancer and treatments hidden until the last few weeks of her life. She had called Kimberly, asked for her to return to Angel Grove, then broke the news to her best friend. Kim had sat by her side talking of the old days when everything had seemed so simple. There had been school, homework, Youth Center hang-time and the infamous save the world before dinner routine. In that time they had bonded with one another. The girls had laughed as they remembered the horrible jokes that Zach used to tell. How Jason had kept them safe in a way that only a big brother could have been able to do. Trying to understand what it was that Billy was telling them when he was excited and talking like a walking SAT. Even though Trini had told Kim to be happy she was finding hard to shake the horrible depression that had washed over her the last few weeks. She had given up gymnastics unwilling to leave Angel Grove again. She had found a steady job as gymnastics coach and a small apartment. She had kept her friends away after the funeral. She was tired of the way that they looked at her. 'Poor Kim' was written all over their faces and it disgusted her. The only person that she needed besides Trini was Jason and they had been unable to reach him for the funeral. He had disappeared into the night after Emily had cruelly dumped him. Her eyes blurred at the thought of losing another friend. He was gone and there had been no returned emails, no returned phone calls and in the three weeks since Trini's death Kimberly was finding it hard to believe that Jason would ever return.
"Oh where are you Jason!" she screamed wildly into the sunset. "I need you." Kim sank to her knees and began to sob into her hands. Her heart and soul screamed to die and a little voice in her head explained the new raw emotions. "Death would be so much easier" it whispered through her grief. "That is why you came up here, to end it all. All you have to do is close your eyes and jump." The voice began to chant. "Jump, jump, jump."
Kim stood up and gazed out at the sea. They won't care if I jump, she thought. Heck they probably won't even notice that I am gone. Aisha was in Africa, Billy dazed and confused by Trini's death had departed for a distant planet. Zach had turned to drinking, Tommy was to wrapped up in Kat's arms to notice that she was even back in Angel Grove. Sighing Kim knew that the only way to bring peace to her mind and frenzied emotions would be to jump. New tears began to fall as she whispered her good-byes to those that would never hear them. Just as she closed her eyes and began to step off the edge a strong hand wrapped around her arm and jerked her back away from the edge and certain death.
"Let me go." Kimberly whimpered to her captor, turning her face away from whoever it was. "Please just leave me alone."
"Not until you tell me what the hell you were just thinking!" Kimberly's head shot up at the sound his soft yet deep voice filled with sadness.
"Jason," she sobbed as he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a circle of love and safety that only he could give her. "You came back," she cried into his white shirt and gripped her arms around him. All at once she felt a small amount of peace. Maybe it was his soft Polo Sport Col. mixed with the leather of his jacket and her tears. "You came back" she whispered again.
"It's alright Kim, I won't leave again" he said as he stroked her back. "What were you doing?"
"I just wanted it all to end. I don't want to have to feel the pain anymore." She explained softly still unwilling to let him out of the embrace. "There was nothing for me here."
"What about the gang? We all used to be so tight together. When one of us was suffering the rest pulled together to help. What could have changed that."
"A letter that a scared seventeen year old wrote to the fearless leader of the Power Rangers." She sighed softly leaning against Jason. "I hurt him and they don't want to forget that."
Jason stood with his arms around Kim taking in what she had told him as he watched the beautiful sunset. He knew that if he had not been in the park and saw her on the cliffs she wouldn't be here. Anger began to bubble in him as he thought of Tommy and the others. Tommy was his best friend, his bro. Yet to Jason it felt as if they had actually tried to hurt Kim intentionally. He was going to have a very long talk with Tommy and the others. There was no excuse for their behavior. They could have all lost something very precious today.
Jason was startled out of his thoughts as Kimberly began to slide to the ground.
"Oh Kim," he sighed as he lifted her sleeping form into his arms. "What have we done to you?"
Jason took one last look at the sunset and turned to walk down the hill to the park where his truck was parked.
Tommy, Kat, Rocky, Tanya and Adam pulled up to the Ocean Side State Park hoping to catch the last rays of the sunset. It had been a painful few weeks and they were all hoping that this was going to give them a light moment in spite of all the dark. Tommy shielded his brown eyes against the dropping sun to a figure carrying someone from one of the highest cliffs. Tommy gasped when he saw who was heading right for them.
"Jason," Tommy called. Jason only gave a curt nod as he passed. There was a look on his face that Tommy had never seen. Pain and anger lurked in the dark depths of his eyes. "Hey, let me help" he said opening the trucks passenger side door.
"It's a little late for your help, Tommy" Jason whispered as he placed the sleeping form in the truck.
"Kim?!" Tommy exclaimed when he got a good look at the young woman's face. He could barely recognize her. What used to be a healthy and vibrant person had disappeared. She looked so thin and weak that he wondered how she was even alive. Tommy was jerked out of his thoughts when Jason closed the door to the truck.
"You want to tell me why I caught her up there attempting to kill herself?!" Jason raved. "What happened to closeness we all had. We made a pact to always be there for one another. Yet I come home to find Kim ready to leap off a cliff because she feels that she has no one in the whole damn world to go to!"
Tommy stepped back stung by the accusations coming from the person he considered to be his best friend.
"I didn't even know that she was still in town. I thought that she had gone back to Florida after the funeral." Tommy whispered. "We didn't know."
"Well maybe if you weren't so wrapped up in Kat-woman you would have noticed that someone you used to love was going to kill herself."
"I will always love Kim, Jase." Tommy said looking hurt.
"Some way to show it!" Jason cried jumping into the truck.
"Jason wait!" Tommy cried as his friend revved his engine.
"Fuck off, Tommy." Jason said as he floored the accelerator and sped away.
Kat, Rocky, Tanya, and Adam stood huddled together as they watched the two old friends exchange words. At one point during the shouting Kat began to cry. She nor the others had ever seen Jason explode and the things that he was saying was enough to make anyone who knew both the men cringe.
