Well folks, here it is, the final chapter of A World Apart. I would like to thank everybody who reviewed this story and waited so patiently for me to update. You guys all rock!
Epilogue
A few weeks after Jasmine's leaving, the Power Rangers engaged in their final battle with Lothor. They lost their Ranger powers, but defeated the space ninja by combining their Ninja powers together to send him into the Abyss of Evil for the rest of time.
Time passed slowly and they all parted ways. Hunter became the new Sensei at the Thunder Academy, while Dustin, Shane, Tori, and Cam became teachers at the Wind Ninja Academy. Blake was signed to a sponsorship and became a professional Motocross rider.
Relationships were formed and grew. Blake asked Tori to marry him, and she said yes. Dustin and Marah finally found each other, this time without Marah using Dustin to prove a point. Shane and Kapri, though odd as it may seem, became close through Marah and Kapri's time studying at the Wind Academy, and fell in love. Hunter fell in love with one of his students, a young woman who showed considerable promise in the Thunder style.
Cam remained alone. His thoughts forever circling around Jasmine. He loved her deeply and knew that to find someone new would be, in his mind, an unforgivable sin. For years he tried desperately to figure out a way to see her again, but to no avail. Throwing all his energy into teaching his students, Cam forced himself to forget her. But he never could.
Meanwhile, Jasmine graduated high school and attended Yale on an almost full scholarship. She majored in business and, after graduation, began to work on opening her own sports store.
She and Kirstin grew closer as sisters. No longer did they fight and, after their mother gained custody of them during Jasmine's senior year in high school, they became a close knit family. Jasmine looked forward to visits home during her college days.
For years she didn't date. Instead, choosing to focus on her studies and later on her business, which had begun to gain much recognition among the extreme sport circuit. Then, one day, a man walked into her store.
His name was Jake and he reminded Jazz of Cam in so many ways. A bookish man with an interest in karate, Jake began to pay close attention to Jasmine. He flirted with her shamelessly, but she barely returned his flirtations, too caught up in fact that she was still in love with Cam. Jake was the chief accountant on Jasmine's board of advisors for her business and, whenever there was a meeting, he would always ask her out for coffee afterwards. And, every time, she would say "maybe next time." It went on that way for two years until, finally, she broke down.
Now don't get the wrong impression of Jasmine, she was in love with Cam, but what she had figured out was that there was no way she could ever see him again. She couldn't throw her life away for a man that, no matter how much she loved him, she would never see again in her life. Jasmine just wasn't the type to live in a dream world.
More time passed. After a year or two of dating, Jake popped the question, and Jazz agreed to marry him.
The day of her wedding dawned, and she spent all that morning crying over the fact that it could have been Cam that she saw on the other side of the aisle. Then she remembered, Cam was no longer a part of her life. She could not mourn what never could have been. So, after wiping her eyes, she donned her wedding dress, walked the aisle, and said her vows to the man that she had come to love almost as much as Cam.
It wasn't long until the couple were expecting their first child, a girl, Tori. And she lived up to her name. A tomboy from birth she kept Jazz on her feet, running after the screaming toddler, kissing booboos, and constantly mending torn clothes.
Jasmine's business was doing well, she had had a couple of offers on it. Some had wanted to buy it out right from her, while others wanted to franchise the store. But she declined them all. This store was too precious to her, it was her baby, her one hold on what had once happened.
Jake and Jasmine had more children, a set of twins- a boy and a girl. The family moved into a larger house. Jasmine expanded her store, Jake got a big promotion and became VP of the accounting firm he worked for. They did well for themselves. Their children never went without what they needed.
But, no matter what happened in her life, Jasmine always remembered what had happened that one night when she was sucked through the television. She never told anybody, only she and Kirstin knew it all. She held it tucked close to her, hiding it from the world. It was her own little secret. Always, on the anniversary of that day, she spent a few moments simply reflecting on everything that she had learned, on everybody she had met and who had come to mean so much to her.
She grew to be an old woman, living long enough to see her great grandchildren born. Then on the sixty-eighth anniversary of that day, at the age of eighty-five, Jasmine died.
She never got to learn what happened to Cam, whether or not he had found somebody to love like she had, she never knew if he followed his dreams. She never got to see him again. But, even though she never saw him, Jasmine knew that Cam was, and always had been, right beside her through everything. She felt his presence in her heart until the very end.
After all, true love can span even worlds.
THE END
