A.N:  Sorry it has been a long time since the update.  My computer was in the shop (advice of the day, never buy from best buy or send a computer in for to be fixed).  Thanks for the reviews they have been encouraging. 

Alone now in the empty park it seemed as if the shadows were creeping in as Kim got to her feet.  Knowing that she wasn't safe standing there like bait and the evils could come back out she left the park at a dead run.  Kim ran until she saw her apartment.  Safe, it was safe in her little hole. 

            As she approached her apartment she slowed until she was jogging.  "Almost there," Kim said to herself chanting it as she pounded the pavement.

            "Hey you!  What are you doing out after dark, you know the rules."  So caught up in the promise of safety she wasn't paying attention to her surroundings.  A young police officer yelled at her from across the street.

            Kim swore under her breath.  Her voice took on that of a happy teenager voice, "Sorry officer, my friend called me and said that it was an emergency.  I was just on my way home."  Silently she hoped that the darkness hid her face and the blood.

            "Where do you live?"  The officer sounded as if he didn't believe her.

            Not good, not good at all she was telling herself.  "The apartment above me" Kim replied trying to sound innocent.  It was hard; she hadn't been innocent for a long time.

            "Fine, tonight is your lucky night.  Next time I see you out here…"  He let the treat hang in the air.

            "You won't officer, I promise" 

            Before the officer couldn't change his mind, she turned and opening up the stairs leading to the apartment building.  Now there was just a flight of stairs to go up and she would be safe.  With record time she made it up the stairs and into her apartment.

            Not thinking anything but blankness she washed her blades off and dried them.  No use in having them rust from lack of care, she thought as she put them away.  Next she took off her top and looked in the mirror to see how bad this latest cut was.  It was deep and still oozing blood as she carefully cleaned it up.  It was going to need stitches, but it was going to have to weight. 

            Kim stared at her reflection in the mirror.  There were scars all up and down her arms.  Silently she traced the scar on her face; it was the one that started it all.  She reached down and turned the facet on washing away the blood that was on her hands.  The blood at first was very red, but as it went down the sink it turned pink.  It was than it hit her.

            "Oh god, this could be Tommy's blood.  What was I thinking?  Oh god…"  She collapsed on the bathroom floor crying and rocking back and forth.

As the Rangers morphed into their base, Tommy almost immediately asked if everyone was alright.  When no one spoke up he turned and headed for the bathroom.  "After we get cleaned up, I want a debriefing ASAP."  The Rangers watch in silence as he retreated to the bathroom.

            As he changed into jeans and a white tee-shirt he noticed that there was blood on his right hand.  Thoughts started to plague him at once.  It belonged to the mysterious person, Tommy felt sure of that.  There was a familiarity about the way the person fought.  He just couldn't place where he had seen that form.  There would be time to talk about the mysterious person later; right now he had to hurry to make it to the conference room.

            He turned away from the sink and opening up his cabinet that had his name on it.  Inside of it was a picture of Kim and him that was taking eight years ago.  They were smiling as he had his arm wrapped around her. "It seems like a lifetime ago doesn't it, Kimmy?"  Of course the picture didn't answer him back, not like he ever expected it to do.  "I hope your safe, where ever you are.  I just wish you would let one of us know that you are alright.  The incident about the letter has been forgotten.  At the time I didn't understand it, but now looking at it from an adult approach I can see why you did it."  With one last gaze at the picture he shut the cabinet and headed towards the conference room.