Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Power Rangers. They belong to Saban and Disney, I think. I hope nobody sues me. I am not receiving any money for this. I'm just doing it for fun.

A/N: Thanks to my beta Trueromantic for help me. Also I want to thank To Lilyrose: Girl Thanks for your support and help, thank you for bring me back.I decided to be nice and post the a new chapter. Now read and enjoy.

Dreams and Nightmares

By: Mili

Chapter 9: True Nightmares

After the flytrons took her, they put her in a cell. She recognizes the place. Zedd's palace. But she knows these aren't Zedd's monsters. She has no idea who took her, or why but she will find out soon. A few hours later, they came back and took her to the throne chamber. They tied her to one of the columns. That was when she saw him, tied to a column in front of her, 'I must be dreaming' she thought.

"Tommy," whispered Kim.

"Kim,"

He felt her before she spoke, and even then she said it so softly, but still he knows she said his name.

"What are you doing here?" she was confused when they took her, she didn't know anything but right now she is more concern about him.

He looked at her looking for the best answer for that question, but just to look at her eyes made him spoke from his heart "I can't leave you." he smiled at her, even under the situation he smiled at her. One of those smile that got her always breathless, and make her simile him back

"That's so sweet..." they never heard the foot steps. They turned to see where this voice came from. They saw a black form approaching to them from the shadows. When he came to the light they saw a monster in a black leather suit with big green and red eyes, with big wings, green and red boots and gloves covering it.

"Who are you?" Tommy asked.

He looked to Tommy's eyes and answered "How rude of me. My name is Prince Grimax. I came from the planet Triffart of the galaxy Axtron. It's a pleasure to finally meet you Tommy Oliver." Tommy didn't know who he was but definitively wanted to erase that evil smile from his face.

Grimax turned to Kim, he smiled at her but different, "It's good to see you again, my beautiful Kim."

"Sorry, I don't think we met before. I wouldn't forget that ugly face." Kim said,

"Oh, I forgot, you didn't know me in these form, maybe this will refresh your memory." he started glowing and changing his form, becoming a tall and blond man with green eyes.

"Danny???" Kim whispered.

"Hello, dear."

"What?.. How? Why?" Kim said, stammering. She is so confused. Danny Carter is in front of her. He was one of the assistants that help her when she was training for the Pan Globals.

"What do you want with us?" asked Tommy.

"Don't worry, I'll answer all your question, the least I can do is explain to both of you what I'm going to make you pay for," Grimax said in dark tone. he watched his prisoners, finally is time for his revenge.

"Like I said, my name is Prince Grimax and I came from the planet Triffart. Ten years ago, my father, King Xaltrax, sent me on a mission through the universe, find the perfect female to become my queen and help me rule our planet. All my life I had waited for that moment, to finally become the King, all I needed was a queen, the perfect queen. She had to prove to my father that she has everything to become the queen. She has to be strong, intelligent, decided, loyal, and beautiful." he said, taking Kim's hair at the last word. "But she had to prove that she was completely in love with me. I searched for many galaxies until I found the perfect candidate, she was everything and more. She was the first Pink Ranger on earth."

Kim and Tommy gasped as Grimax continued in dark tone "But there was a little problem; she was completely in love with someone else, the White Ranger. The rules of my planet said that I can't use a spell to make her fall in love with me, my father would know, I couldn't do it that way so I had to make her fall in love with me. I waited months for the perfect moment to approach to her. One day that moment arrives, when she was leaving to Florida. She was alone, in a new place, away from her friends and especially away from you." Grimax said, pointing at Tommy.

"I used my magic and became Danny Carter, an assistant coach, just to be close to her. I asked her out every chance that I got, but she always said the same thing ' I have a boyfriend and I love him more than anything, I would never cheat on him" he said trying to sound like Kim's voice

Then he stood in front of Kim "I couldn't understand why you loved him so much, he never called you, he never wrote and you still were totally and helplessly in love with him, even when he was getting closer to the blond girl."

"That's not true." Tommy rushed to say.

Grimax didn't bother to pay attention to his comment, so he continued "I didn't have too much time, so I decided to help a little." Grimax smiled, again that evil smile Tommy got when Grimax arrived.

"What?" Kim asked.

"Remember what happened Kim?"

"No..." whispered Kim, shaking her head.

"Yes my dear."

"It couldn't be you, it couldn't." Kim said, shaking her head harder, trying to push the memories away. "NO!!!" she screamed.

"Kim." Tommy is really concerned about what he could do to Kim.

Seeing that he got them Grimax started to tell the story to Tommy, and to Kim who didn't know what really happened "After she came back from Christmas, she started having nightmares, or should I say, a nightmare, the same nightmare,"

Kim tears are running free now "No please" she pleaded, closing her eyes, trying to erase the memories.

"Tommy has the right to know dear." he said, taking the place in front of Tommy.

Grimax watched him before started explaining with dark tone. "In the nightmare she was in her dorm in Florida when a bunch of cogs attacked her, she fought well but without her power she was an easy target. Just like Zedd tried once King Mondo made you choose between her life or your powers. Of course you wouldn't let her die so you gave him your powers, although she begged you not to, but you still did it. It was a trap, all knew it was but you had to save her,after you gave your up powers King Mondo let her go, but when you were running to take Kim, King Mondo killed you, Kim run to your side and cried taking you in her arms, trying to wake you, but you were already gone. You died on her arms."

"Oh god." Tommy couldn't believe what he heard.

"She had the same nightmare every night; every time she closed her eyes she could see you dead. She stopped sleeping, barely ate, she was almost kicked out of the team." He turned to Kim who was with her face down crying "I have to say that I was surprised you resisted so long. You were so strong." He turned again to Tommy "But then one day, my dream became reality. She couldn't take it anymore and she decided to send you that letter to break up with you."

"Kim..." Tommy whispered, a little tear running down his face.

Kimberly was shaking, crying, her gaze looked lost in the floor, when she spoke her voice was rough, she seemed like she was talking more to herself "I could smell your blood. I could feel you cold. You were pale. You were dead. It felt so real. You were dead and it was my fault. I couldn't let that happen to you. I couldn't handle it if something happened to you. I put you in danger. Even when I had my powers you were always risking your life for me. I had to do something. I couldn't let that happen. I'm so sorry, I should have been stronger. I'm sorry." she said, lifting her gaze at the last part to confront Tommy.

"I thought I would be able to have my way with her, she was vulnerable and alone. I could take advantage of that, but she got even worse. She spent two days without going out of her room. The coach talked to her and gave her a week to improve her practice or she would be off the team. Two days after she sent the letter she came out but she wasn't the same, she seemed like an empty person. She was cold, never laughed, she lost all her friends on the team, she only cared about gymnastics, she lost her light." Grimax said, looking straight at Kim.

Grimax raised his tone "She wasn't my queen; I couldn't present that to my father. I wasted all my time with you, when I came back to my planet without a perfect queen my father punished me, sending me to a cell. He gave the powers to my younger brother. He didn't deserve them. Those powers were mine. It was my throne and you two ruined everything. I spent all this time preparing how you two would pay for what you did; now you are going to pay for that. I'm going to take you to my planet and confine you to that cold cell all alone to make you feel what I felt all these years." Grimax said laughing.

"A spell, a dream." Tommy whispered, he had a few tears rolling down his face. He can't believe this. Finally, he had his answers. It was true Kimberly broke up with him because there was someone else, but someone else that she didn't know. She was just part of Grimax's sick game. He played with her mind, with her fears. 'It was all a mistake; she was scared. She did it for me' thought Tommy.

Grimax screamed to his commander."Valtrax, prepare the ship, we are leaving now."

"My prince, I'm sorry but we are having problems with the ship and we can't leave until tomorrow morning." Valtrax whispered.

"What? Well then, take them and put them in cells away from each other." Grimax said in a dark tone. He is planning to destroy their lives in the same way they destroyed his.

"My prince, I'm sorry but there is only one cell in this palace." Valtrax whispered again.

"What?" Grimax yelled, really angry now. After taking a deep breath, he continued, "I decided to be nice to you two, I'm going to let you spend your last night together. Take them."

"Wait." Kim yelled. "The other nightmare, that was you right?" Kim asked Grimax.

"Didn't you hear what I just said, I have been in a cell for the last ten years. Sorry dear, but I don't know what are you talking about. NOW TAKE THEM." Grimax said,

"It had to be you." Kim said, sobbing while the flytrons took her and Tommy to the cell.

Once they were there, Kim took a seat on the floor in a corner of the cell with her head hidden between her legs, while Tommy stood leaning against the wall.

"What other nightmare?" Tommy asked, making Kim lift her head to him. "What happened in the other nightmare Kim?" he asked, looking at her when more tears were coming down her face.

Taking a deep breath, she started. "After I sent that letter to you, the nightmare stopped, but a few months later I had another nightmare. It was mostly the same. King Mondo kidnapped me and he made you choose between my life or your power, but…" she paused and took a deep breath before continuing.

"You said that you didn't care about me anymore, you told him that you hated me for what I did to you and that he would be doing you a favor if he finished with my life." Kim said sobbing, looking at Tommy. "I couldn't handle that, I can't live if you hate me, I just can't. So I called Jason, I decided to talk to you, explain everything to you. That was when Divatox kidnapped us and the Maligore's thing happened…"

"But we never talked, you left before we could talk, I tried to find you." Tommy interrupted her.

"I had all the answer that I needed. When I was under that spell, I tried to hurt you. Even when you took off your helmet, I still tried to hurt you, but you never gave up and you saved us, you saved me. That proved to me that you still cared about me, that you didn't hate me, but then I saw you with Kat..." Kim said, closing her eyes.

"Kat and I started dating after the letter." Tommy explained.

"I know, but you two looked so good, so happy together, I didn't have the right to ruin that so I left." That was the third hardest decision in her life. The first one was leave for Florida and the second was to send the letter.

"You should have called me, after the letter. If we could have talked about it, you just had to explain everything to me and I…" Tommy stopped when he heard Kim whispering something. "What?" he asked.

"I called you." Kim repeated.

"What? When? I…" Tommy said stammering, very confused.

"Two days after I sent the letter I called you; your mother said that you were on a skiing trip with Kat."

"Kim, I was so lost and hurt, Kat and Billy took me on that trip to cheer me up. Kat and I... I never cheated on you." Tommy explained to her.

"It's o.k." Kim assured him. "In that moment I realized that you were better off without me, you had people to help you and support you."

"If we would have talked, we could still be…" He stopped the sentence when he saw Kim's look.

"It was the right decision; I would do it again if I have to." Kimberly said seriously.

"What?"

"Look at us, we have lived good lives, we have accomplished our dreams without each other. I went to the Olympics. I won two medals, now I'm teaching and you raced cars and went to college, got your PhD. We have lived happy lives." Kim explained, trying to convince herself.

"Is that the truth?" Tommy asked.

"We can't change the past Tommy, we can only live the present trying to make us a better future." Kim said, walking again to sit in the corner, letting the words sink into Tommy's mind.

To be continued