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The Day of the Dance

"Kim, I need to talk to you about something," Rocky said, pulling her away from the others.

The day of the dance had come and everyone else was busily working on the final touches, but Rocky found himself not being able to concentrate because of what Ally had slipped up and said. It didn't make sense to him why someone would want to attack Kim, but there are some sick people in this world and he hated to admit that. He had just never thought that they would be affected by it all.

"What is it, Rocky?" Kim asked, walking over and automatically feeling the big-brother protectiveness emitting from his psyche. Rocky seemed to have had something on his mind over the last few days and Kim knew that Ally couldn't preoccupy his mind this much, even if him being miserable had been able to do that. There just seemed to be something else going on in Rocky's mind and she wasn't quite sure what it was.

"I need to ask you about something and I want you to be completely honest with me," Rocky said, pulling Kim out into the lobby of the gymnasium.

He didn't want to worry the others until he knew the truth and he surely didn't want to add any more stress to Tommy, knowing he might explode at any moment. That was the only reason he had not gone straight toTommy to ask him about it, immediately.

"Alright," Kim said looking at Rocky and seeing that he was very nervous about this conversation. She couldn't understand what could make him act like this, unless there was something Tommy had done that she should know about, but even that didn't seem plausible right now.

"What happened to you in Florida?" Rocky asked, as Kim looked at him, with confusion shining through among all of the other emotions she was feeling.

'Why did he have to bring up Florida?' Kim thought to herself as she tried to come up with a good answer that he would actually believe.

"Nothing, Rocky. Why would you ask?" Kim asked, knowing that she was lying to him, but she did not want to retell the attack to anyone, not even Tommy, yet. Richard Myles had been nice when she first met him, but then he found out about Tommy and things got ugly from then on out for her and even some of the other gymnasts. She didn't like to take herself back to that place if she could help it.

"Something Ally accidentally told me the other day," Rocky said, looking as Kim started to fight back the tears that were forming in her eyes. Whatever this man had done to her was much worse than he ever thought it would be and that made him feel sorry for asking, but he just had to know. Some onehad to help her with this. "What did he do to you?"

"Rocky, I really don't want to talk about this today," Kim said, biting her lower lip in an attempt to keep herself from crying, as she had already been overstressed by everything that was going on behind the gym doors. "It brings back too many bad memories and I need to be able to work today."

"I'll keep it between the two of us, but someone needs to know. This isn't something you need to keep inside," Rocky said, pulling Kim over to a bench and forcing her to sit down beside him. If all she was going to do was cry, the least he could do was give her a shoulder to cry on and pray that Tommy did not discover her to be that upset, as he was likely to break down in tears as well.

"I know that I should have told someone, but he said he'd kill me if I did and I believed him. None of you were close enough to really help," Kim said, as the tears overflowed. She knew that Rocky only wanted to help, but she didn't know if she was willing to let him help her.

"Kim, do you know why he attacked you?" Rocky asked, as she nodded her head yes. He honestly couldn't believe she had been keeping this a secret, until now. Tommy should be the one hearing it first, but he was because of how upsetting it was for her. "Why?"

"Because he couldn't have me," Kim said, looking up at Rocky. Who merely nodded a conformation that he had heard what she said, knowing he did not want to ask any questions until he heard it all. "When I first met Richard he was a nice guy, not Tommy, but a nice guy in general. He would always spot me if I was worried about a new tumbling pass or something and I thought that I was getting a good friendship out of it. Then he asked me if I'd go out on a date with him, I told him no. I explained to him that I had a boyfriend back home and that I just didn't see him that way."

"And he went psycho?" Rocky asked, as Kim shook her head no. She would have been able to handle that better than what he had done to her after the rejection.

"I wish he would have, but he took it well or so I thought. A few weeks later, I noticed that I started 'misplacing' my gym bag and books, but I would always find them in the girls locker room when I got there to train, so I just thought that I was a little too stressed, that I was working a little bit too hard. That was until I found a note in my math book," Kim said, pausing to wipe her eyes and collect her thoughts before she continued. "He had been taking my bags from inside my dorm and carrying them to the gym for me, everyday. It freaked me out, knowing that he had been in my dorm room, without me knowing about it at all. I called out here, but no one was available to talk to, so I went to Ally, hoping she'd be able to help me, but I just pulled her into the problem."

"This was before you…you know," Rocky said, not really wanting the letter into the context of this conversation.

It had absolutely nothing to do with why this boy had done what he did to her, although he would have loved to have gotten some answers as to why she felt she had to break Tommy's heart then. The main thing was, that they both were happy now and it would be great, no matter what the reasoning was behind it all.

"Yeah, it was Rocky. Any ways, for the next few weeks I was glued to Ally's side, in fear that he was going to show up again, but he didn't. It was about a month after I found out that he was going into my room that he started stalking me, from what I could tell. I'd run into him at some of the oddest places and usually I would be with some of the other gymnasts, but on the rare occasion that I was alone, I always felt the need to get away from him as soon as possible," Kim said. Now she wished that she had called Jason or Tommy, either of them would have taken care of this problem without a second thought, but she didn't. She wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. "Then he attacked me one day. Ally and I had gotten a little ahead of the others on our morning jog, which was not fun, but we weren't too worried, Richard had been acting normal lately. He jumped out of a bush, tackling me to the ground. I don't know what came over me, but I knew that he wasn't going to hurt Ally or me, if I had my way. I threw him off me and launched into using the martial arts Tommy had taught me, for something like that. Pretty soon I had him down on his knees and then Ally and I ran for it. I didn't want to give him a second chance and I had the feeling that Ally was pretty surprised by all of this. She couldn't stop staring at me for weeks, whenever we did something even remotely involved with karate."

"Did it end there?" Rocky asked, as he saw her bite her lip and knew what her answer was going to be. He could tell that this Richard guy had not left her alone, after getting his ass whooped, but continued to pursue her instead.

"For Ally, yes. For me, no. He stayed after me every day I was there and Coach Schimdt thought that we should always be paired together, so I was around him much more than I wanted to be," Kim said, trying to keep herself from breaking down in sobs. "He never attacked me again, but I always felt as if he was watching me, but I haven't seen him in two years. I just hope that he has left me alone, for good this time. I don't know what I'd do if he showed up out here one day."

"I'm sorry, Kim," Rocky said, giving her a hug and he heard the welled-up sobs escaping her lips as she cried on his shoulder. 'Good Lord, Kim. Why didn't you tell us sooner?' He thought to himself as she continued to cry and they stayed that way for about five minutes. She seemed to have collected herself enough that she was ready to go back into the gym, but Rocky wasn't sure if she was going to return to her chipper self that day, not after what she told him.

Florist Shop

Later on that day, they had to make one final purchase, the flowers. The trip started out innocently enough, with them hoping to get in and out in under five minutes. The florist, however, had other ideas of how long it would take them to leave with their purchases.

"What do you mean, they haven't come in yet?" Kim asked, thoroughly enraged with the florist. He had promised he'd get them in on time and now he was going to either make good on his promise or Kim was going to lose her mind. The latter opinion would not be good for the florist, but she did have someone who would bail her out of jail if things got out of control, standing only a few feet away. "You had better be joking, if you know what is best for you."

"I'm sorry, Ms. Hart, but they have not come in yet," the florist lied, knowing that he had her bundle of flowers sitting in the back room. This was ordinary for him to do to first time customers, but since he was the only florist in town, they always came back.

"Kim, don't," Tommy said, seeing her show the classic signs of rage.

She had been running her fingers through her hair and had started pacing in front of the counter. After a few seconds, she glared at Tommy before settling her gaze on the florist. If Tommy wasn't going to let her lose her cool, then she was going to have to settle for buying anything that the florist had, no matter how much of a rip off it would be.

"Well, what do you have?" Kim asked, refraining herself from yelling at the florist. The florist had better been grateful that Tommy had decided to come with her, otherwise she would have flown off the hinges and made sure that every bit of her rage had landed on the florist.

"I have some white roses, if you're interested?" The florist suggested and noticed that Kim looked very tense, before she let out a sigh.

What other choice did she have? She desperately needed some flowers; there was no other place that she could buy them, without having to go to another town. She didn't have the time for that, today or most other times that over the last few weeks.

"How many do you have?" Kim asked, knowing that it would cost much more than she wanted to spend, but if this was all the florist had, then she would pay for them. She had to get some flowers, no matter what kind they were, or how much they cost.

"Enough for your plan," the florist said, glad that he had been able to convince her to buy the more expensive flowers. He, however, had not done a good enough job at convincing Tommy that he did not have the flowers, which caused Tommy to do something he rarely did, blow up.

"Where are the other flowers?" Tommy asked, not believing a word that had come out of the florist's mouth. He had also taken the look of determination he had with the asoriods on his face and the florist was starting to become scared, to say the least. This man looked to be very strong and he wasn't sure he could last in a fight against him. The woman he could have taken, but this man seemed to have been an athlete before settling down to teach, which meant that there was still muscle in there somewhere.

"What do you mean?" the florist asked, as Tommy started to walk towards the back room. He had never met Mr. Oliver before, but he got the feeling that he had definitely crossed the line this time. Most of his other new customers dealt with this, but he obviously was not going to put up with it, now or ever for that matter.

"They are somewhere in here," Tommy said, walking into the back room, with the florist only steps behind him. Tommy was ready to tear the place apart in order to find the flowers, even if it did mean he would be fined for it.

"Okay, I'll go get them," the florist said, as Tommy silently turned and headed out of the back room. Kim had noticed he had been acting nervous, as of late, but all of the pent up energy suddenly overflowed, on the unsuspecting florist, not that he didn't deserve it.

"I didn't know you had it in you," Kim said, letting Tommy know that she knew he was acting very odd.

This was not the same Tommy Oliver, who would have reasoned with the florist years before. He had a new edge, and it was a little scary, if the truth be known. This new edge also made her very conscious of everything they had just been through and it was ordinary for all of them to act like this soon after any mission, especially one like the last one. They had all been known to do crazy things soon after a mission, even Billy had broken down a time or two.

"It's only because he was trying to scam you," Tommy said, regaining his legendary composure, after taking a few calming breaths. He knew that it was more than that, but didn't want to say the rest. He was going to do enough confessing of feelings that evening, so he wanted to try to keep his emotions in check, but found himself failing.

"That makes me feel just wonderful," Kim said, as the florist walked back out with her assortment of flowers.

"Here you go, miss, sorry for the inconvenience," the florist said, as they gratefully paid for the flowers and left the shop without another word. They both knew that they would never use that florist again, even if it did mean traveling thirty or forty minutes out of the way to find a good florist. They then went back to the high school, in order to put some of the finishing touches on the decorations.

"You got the flowers?" Trini asked, watching as Kim and Tommy lugged a box between them. They had been gone for almost an hour, which was hard to explain when the florist was only ten minutes away. They had started speculating about what they had been up to, but came to a sudden stop when they entered the gym, both looking to be mad about something.

"Yes, but only after a slight struggle with the florist," Tommy said, as they put the box down. He was glad that Principal Strigner had given him the day off, otherwise he might have had to bail Kim out of jail, and that wouldn't have been pleasant.

"Kim, you didn't go off on the poor man, did you?" Aisha asked, knowing how Kim had a temper that could only be rivaled by Aisha, herself, when mad.

"No, someone wouldn't let me," Kim said, casting her gaze towards Tommy, whom had decided to go ahead and help the other guys. He still was able to hear what was being said and watched as the other guys looked at him, before shaking their heads out of the humor they found in this situation. Tommy, losing his temper? That was something, they would have to see to believe, well, everyone except Rocky and Jason. "But he decided to take care of that himself."

"No, you didn't," Hayley said, in disbelief. She had only seen Tommy lose his cool once before and it had been at the mention of him moving on with his life.

Now she understood why it had been impossible for him to find a girlfriend that would make him happy, when the one he wanted could still be had, but she still could remember how scary it was when he was mad. She never wanted to experience that again, if she could help it.

"Yes, he did," Kim said, which earned a stifled laugh from Jason and Rocky.

Both of them seemed to be the only ones who did not feel sorry for the florist, instead they seemed to think it was about time Tommy took his aggressions out on someone else besides the two of them. The others usually didn't see him mad, but Rocky and Jason were the only ones that had the right to feel sorry for the florist, but it was obvious to them that he deserved what he got, as well as the fact that Kim was not that mad at him.

"Come on, we have to get some work done. You have to leave at one and we have to go get showered and dressed at about four," Tommy said, diverting them back to the task at hand. He did not want to have this conversation right now or ever, if the truth were known. His temper had always sat on the back burner, but for those who were unfortunate enough to receive his lashings, it was definitely an experience that would not soon be forgotten any time soon and Kim knew about it more than anyone else.

"Fine, Tommy. We'll get to work," Kim said and ran off to begin on the flower arrangements. She knew that if the girls didn't get these done, there was absolutely no way that the boys would finish it, not up to her standards at least.

"So, is everything ready for tonight?" Zack asked, as Tommy and he lifted a fabric panel into position between two arbors.

Everyone knew except Kim and they all had been wondering if Tommy was really ready to take this step, after so many years of waiting just to have her there with him. No, it wasn't if Tommy was ready, for all of this it was if Kim was willing to accept his complete forgiveness so soon. They all understood that Tommy didn't want to waste anymore time. Five years had been long enough, and with any luck, he would only have to wait another year or so before they got married, which made him so happy.

"As ready as it is going to be," Tommy said, as they climbed back down the ladder. Over the last six weeks he had been preparing his speech, but he still felt that he was forgetting something, but that was normal for him, very normal. He came up with the same list of things every time he thought about it and the only thing he knew for sure wasn't missing was the ring, it was sitting in the console of his jeep, which he had happened to lock. That was all that really mattered at this point, because he knew in all likelihood the second he opened his mouth, all of his thoughts would go out the window. "Jason, how about you?"

"I don't know," Jason said, as Kim walked up and hit him in the back of the head. She was on her way to get some scissors, but had heard the question posed to Jason by Tommy, although she could not figure why they would have asked him about his romatic relationship.

He had better know what he was going to do or she would take things into her own hands. Trini had been miserable and Jason had been a pain in the ass lately, so they all were wishing that the two of them would just tell the other, but that hadn't happened, yet.

"Jason, you are going to tell her tonight or I will and I mean ever word of that damn fear we saw before they got to her," Kim said, pulling Jason down by his collar, so that she was able to mutter this in his ear. Kim wasn't sure how many of the rangers knew about the fear and was going to be nice enough to mutter the threat this time. She wasn't so sure she would be that nice, if she had to do it again.

"Okay," Jason said, as Zack and Billy grinned at the image in front of them. Jason could have easily dispensed of Kim, but was now being pulled around by the little woman. Katherine and Trini were only seeing the actions and couldn't help but wonder what Jason had said to get Kim to do that. She had done this before, but it was only when she was mad at Jason. Trini couldn't really think of a reason for her to be mad at him right now, even if Kat could think of several, in which most of them had to do with Trini.

"She must have something on him," Katherine said, as Trini and she spread out a tablecloth. She knew what Kim had on Jason, they all did, but there was no use to tell Trini exactly what it was. She knew that it wouldn't make Trini feel any better unless she heard it from Jason, himself, and that didn't seem like it was going to happen any time soon, which was sad.

"Kat, how do you think Jason felt about you?" Trini asked as they moved a fountain into the middle of the table.

She had been wondering this since that day at the beach, so many weeks ago and finally saw the opportunity to ask it, without any repercussions. Trini had never been one to be jealous, but she couldn't help but not like the way Jason had looked at Kat at the beach. Only she couldn't see that he was looking at her with a lot more eagerness in his eyes and a flutter in his heart when Kat told him to go after her.

"Not the way he feels about you. He loves you, Trini," Kat said and walked over to give Trini a hug. Trini hadn't been really happy since the beach trip, because ever since then Jason had been distant, and no one could really see why he was acting like that, except that he was scared about screwing this up. "Give him some time, Trini. He'll come around eventually."

"Why can't eventually be now?" Trini asked, feeling absolutely miserable. It seemed that no one understood her sorrow or even attempted to, not even Jason this time.

Jason had always been one of her best friends and when she fell for him, she had thought she would not have been able to have him and the friendship, so she choose to just leave it at friends. Then they had to go destroy Nicarni-Aso and something happened on that planet that made Kim and Tommy find out how Jason felt, but it meant nothing to her unless Jason told her the truth. Only then would she believe what she was being told, by everyone except him.

"I don't know," Kat said, simply shrugging her shoulders. They all knew about what Jason had planned, except Trini, but right now, that plan didn't even seem like it was going to be good enough. He needed to be able to confess everything and let her see something that not many others did, "but we will be leaving soon, so don't worry about him."

"Yeah, I'll try not to," Trini said, not wanting to have to deal with the thought of trying to impress Jason. She knew that the girls would take care of her if she had a nervous breakdown, which was likely to happen with the way she was feeling right now.

"So, who's this friend of yours?" Jason asked, trying to distract them from his situation. He had always thought girls were more ruthless about relationships, well that was until he told all of them about Trini.

Now they were riding his ass, as well as Kim, which was almost enough to make him go screaming from the room from the added pressure he felt. He just wanted to be able to tell Trini in his own way, but he never seemed to take the opportunities that they gave him, so now he would have to jump out there or risk losing her forever, as they seemed to be tellnig him that it was now or never for him.

"Ally," Rocky said, looking over at Jason, with a critical eye, "and no that is not going to work. At least I haven't fallen in love, yet."

"Fine," Jason said and looked down at his watch. It was exactly six hours until the ball was to begin, which signaled it was time for the girls to leave and time that they would be able to talk without worry, which meant his friends were going to give him hell. "Girls are dismissed."

"Thank you, Jason and we'll see you at 6:30, alright?" Aisha said, going to pick up her purse, while Hayley grabbed her car keys.

"That'll be fine," Zack said, giving her a hug. "Now go beautify yourselves and knock our socks off when you come back."

"We will," Kim said and then gave Tommy a kiss on the cheek. Tommy didn't know if he would be able to handle, too much of a shock, even though some of his friends probably could. Hell, Jason might need a shock just to get him to tell Trini the truth.

Aisha's POV

We had a great afternoon, of pampering ourselves and actually getting to relax after this hectic week of work. Kim and Trini both seem to be taking special care with their outfits. Which we all could understand, even if they do not know what is going to happen tonight. Zack has been much better lately, maybe because of what the guys said or maybe because he really cares. It doesn't really matter either way because we are getting along much better than I thought we ever would for awhile. Tonight is definitely going to be interesting for some people, and shocking for others.

Rocky's POV

I've tried to forget what Kim and I talked about, but I just haven't been able to do it. She is surely a different kind of woman, one that I am proud to say that I have met and have as a friend. Tommy will never know about what happened and it may be best that way. I don't know if I could take knowing that my girlfriend had been attacked and there was nothing I could do about it.

We always had been able to stop the evil, somehow, but this was a type of evil that we had no experience dealing with, ours usually had some maniac behind it. Her maniac, was a person, just like all the people we had saved while fighting the maniacs. I understand why she couldn't tell us, you can't go and destroy a person, without committing a crime and Tommy would have done that. We could always destroy the monsters and people would be thankful for that, but we couldn't do that to a person, which was a painful thing to live with.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Adam asked, walking over, with a suit bag in his hand and a tie draped around his neck. Rocky seemed to be really distracted, which wasn't normal for him. After he had met Ally, he had seemed to join the world of the living again, but ever since this morning, he seemed to have something on his mind, something serious.

"I don't think a penny is enough this time, Adam," Rocky said, as he turned to follow him into Tommy's classroom. This had become their makeshift changing room for the next few hours, as they all took turns taking showers in the boy's locker room, which was not as good as Tommy's home, but they had agreed it would be best that they stayed away from the girls for the rest of the afternoon. They did not want to be around that sort of chaos.

"That serious?" Adam asked, as usually he would be the one to respond with that type of answer.

Whatever was on Rocky's mind seemed to be weighing on him more than anything else had, in a long time. The last time Adam could remember him in such a thinking mood had been before Tanya and he broke it off. That was over two years ago and it was something that he did not think Rocky would ever deal with again.

"Yeah, it is," Rocky said, looking down at his shoes and then up at Adam, as he knew he was about to break part of his promise. "One of our friends had something happen to her, that should never happen to anyone."

"Who was it?" Adam asked, checking to make sure they were the only ones in the room. It appeared that they were, but unbeknownst to them, Tommy was working behind a cabinet and decided it best to stay back there. If Rocky had something on his mind, he was sure they would all hear about it, eventually.

"Kim, but I can't tell you anymore than that, Adam," Rocky said, as Adam eyed him suspiciously. What had happened to Kim? Surely, she hadn't been raped, but at this point even that wouldn't shock him. Florida had done something to her, even if they didn't like to admit it too often.

"Alright," Adam said, sitting down on top of a desk. Tommy now was struggling to keep himself from falling face first into the sink and revealing that he was there. He slowly lowered himself to the floor and propped himself up against the back of the cabinet. What could have happened to Kim that Rocky couldn't tell any of them about? He knew that he didn't like the sound of all of this and could only hope that Rocky would explain himself later. If not, he would have to find out, from Kim.

AN: I know I'm evil for leaving this chapter like this, but I promise the proposal will be in the next chapter. You know what to do, the more you review the faster I'll get the next chapter out. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!