Unforgettable ch 6

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It was 5:30 now. It's been a good couple hours since the Blake, Hunter incident and the gang was currently in the waiting room of Reefside General, waiting for the status report on Kira. They took her in for a once over and still haven't gotten a report from the doctor yet which gave them time to reflect; especially for Tommy in particular.

Their teammate was kidnapped; kidnapped and tortured by two ex rangers. None of them could believe that any of it happened. They hadn't kept a close enough eye on her and that was the consequence. Especially with the death of her parents, which Tommy still hasn't mentioned to the team yet. It was all to much to take in, all the events that happened and such, Kira didn't deserve this, at all. She was a good person all around, she was smart, had a good natured heart, cared for others, sometimes had that spit fire attitude but nonetheless was over all cheery, and would never bring harm to others. Why would someone do this to her? More importantly, why would Blake and Hunter do this to her? They were supposed to be the good guys.

But the team tried to put that behind them now. What's important was the present, they were glad they found her and now they needed to concentrate on her health and find out emotionally how she'd make it after all this mess.

"Dr. Oliver, don't you think we should try and call her parents? You know let them know that she's alright?" Ethan asked curious as to why, her parents haven't been informed on the situation yet. He knew if it was him in the situation his parents would have worried themselves into a coma.

Tommy sighed. "So much for putting things in the past." He thought. He didn't know exactly how to tell them without causing them to worry more then they probably already were but he figured that the best way would be to out with the information and not beat around the bush.

"Guys, Kira's parents passed away." Tommy said rubbing his temples to try and relieve the pounding headache he had.

The whole Dino Thunder team plus the Ninja storm team had looks of confusion. Did he just say her parents passed away? But this couldn't be, she needed them, now more then ever. When did this happen?

"Wait, what? How did her parents pass? And When?" Trent asked.

"A couple months ago." Tommy responded.

"A couple months ago!" Haley exclaimed. "But when did this………and how did she……….and what about?..."

"I know Hail, I'm confused too. Yesterday when I went to her house to look for her, one of the neighbors told me that they passed away a couple months ago."

"But I don't remember Kira mentioning it, I mean as far as I know, she seemed pretty much happy all year long." Conner said.

"Ya and she's never been transferred to any adoption agency or anything." Ethan added.

"Well she is 18 and she has been for a couple months so maybe that has something to do with that situation but I still don't know. I just can't believe she'd hide something like this from us." Tommy said.

"Well Tommy, she's not really…….obligated to tell us you know. We're her team and her friends, it's her choice on what she chooses to tell us." Haley said.

"Ah yes Haley that is true but hidden secrets make for an unhappy heart." Sensei interrupted pretty much summarizing what Tommy was going to say in Chinese words of wisdom.

"Ya Hail, I mean a secret as big as that, she had to have told someone." Tommy said.

Haley sighed. "You're right but, let's not focus on that right now, I mean I doubt she'll even want to talk about anything whenever we get to see her." She said.

"If we ever do, exactly how long do they plan to keep this up?" Tommy said looking at his watch that read 5:45. It's been about 3 hours since they arrived and they haven't heard a peep yet.

"Not any longer." Came a female voice in front of Tommy.

The 26 year old, looked up to see a tall brunette woman, with a broad smile across her face wearing a white lab coat and holding a brown clip board. Obviously the doctor. Tommy's face flushed a little at the slight embarrassment of her hearing his not so patient comment.

"I assume you guys are waiting for miss Kira Ford am I correct?" she asked.

"Yes that's us." Haley said.

"Well I'm Dr. Smith, nice to meet you." She said shaking Haley's hand.

"Is Kira ok?" Tommy asked standing up while his voice was full of concern.

"Well………" Dr. Smith began with a sigh. "That's a bit of a debatable situation." She said.

"What do you mean? What happened?" Haley quizzed.

"Well physically, we got a sample of her blood and tested it and found traces of drug use. But after checking her nostrils, and throat passages, we found that it couldn't have been anything inhaled or smoked, most likely taken in with a needle and we believe that's her kidnapper's doing." She began.

"Is she going to be ok from that?" Cam asked.

"She's improving, she's very weak right now from that and the lack of food but we have her on an Iv with the nutrients and minerals she needs right now."

"Well that's good, is that it?" Tommy asked.

"I'm afraid not. We did find bruises in various spots on her body, more commonly on her abdomen and her inner thighs which could mean that……….."

"Oh God." Haley gasped after fitting the clues together. She took a seat as Tommy rubbed her back in reassurance that everything was going to be ok. This was a lot for them to handle right now. They were hoping that everything would be just fine with her and now they had to hear this that there was a chance she had been raped? On top of being abducted by two, ex rangers they had to go and rape her? This was all to much in one day.

"Now we're still waiting on the lab results of the second blood testing to see if we find different DNA in it then we'll have better knowledge on weather it's true or not but right now even with out the DNA results, from the evidence we found, just on her body, its' not looking negative." She explained.

"Has she told you guys anything on weather it's true or not?" Tommy asked.

"Well that's the next thing. As expected she's a emotional wreck right now. She won't talk to anyone about anything. We tried asking her simple questions like how old she was or what movies she liked but she won't answer. We've had the detective come in, the police come in to try to get a report but she won't speak and we've even tried the hospital social worker but she can't even crack a word out of her. Maybe her friends could make her a little better." Dr. Smith said.

"Anything we could do to help." Trent said.

"So we can see her now?" Ethan asked.

"Of course, follow me." She said leading the group of 10 to go and finally spend some time with their found teammate.

Leading them down a couple of long hallways, they finally arrived at room 254-A. Dr. Smith opened the door to reveal a dimly lit room, that was fairly big for a hospital room and had, a 3 seater sofa against the wall next to an automan, a small table in between two doors, one for the bathroom and the other for the closet and finally one bed containing the sick patient.

It was a sad sight to see. Kira laying there in the bed, still as can be, the only movement coming from her was her chest slightly moving up and down which was required for her breathing. Hooked up to her arm was an Iv which was attached to a long cord that was dripping several different mineral enriched liquids into her system. And as she lay there, wrapped into a couple of warm blankets, she had a depressed, lost look on her face like most the patients in the hospital only hers was a bit more emotional. Even a blind man would be able to see the sorrow inscribed across her face and the team new the chances of making her smile were one in a million.

"Hey Kira hun." Dr. Smith said walking over to the bed and rubbing her back some. "Looks who's here, it's you're friends. They've come to cheer you up." She added.

Kira looked up at the doctor and stared at her for a good 4 seconds before fixating her eyes back into the same lost position.

Dr. Smith sighed looking at the Iv machine to make sure everything was in check. "I'll be back later." She said mustering up the best smile she could before making her leave.

The gang exchanged glances with one another, each wondering what to say next. This was defiantly an awkward position. They were all happy that Kira was finally rejoined with them, and that more or less she was ok but what do you say to a person who was in an emotional wreck like she was?

Well Haley decided to break the ice and give her sensitive talk a try. "Hey Kira honey." She said sitting down on the edge of her bed and just as the doctor did, rub her back some. "We're so glad you're ok, you had us so worried?" she added.

Kira made no response to this but at least she was listening so Haley took this opportunity to continue. "We're all happy you're safe sweetie, and look, the whole gang is here to see you, even the Ninja rangers traveled from Blue Bay Harbor to see you."

Kira looked up at Haley giving her that same look she gave the doctor before looking at both ranger teams. She was happy they were here and they would always be there for her, but she wasn't really in the mood for all the "Are you ok?" talk. She wasn't ok but she didn't want the sympathy.

Tommy took this time to step in, and pulled up a chair next to the bed and took Kira's hand in his. It was good to finally feel Kira's soft petite hands in his once again and with that simple action he felt like everything was a minor problem now. What was good was that Kira was back and she was safe.

Leveling his head with hers on the bed, Tommy looked her deep in the eye and he could read all her pain and fear and all her emotion, just from looking at her. She really was an emotional wreak.

"Hey" he began tapping her chin. "I'm so glad you're ok Kira. You had me worried to death." He said.

Kira locked eyes with him, listening to what he had to say.

"I was so worried Kira. I was up all night and day trying to find every possibility in the world to try and find you. All I could think about was all the bad stuff that could be happening and how I didn't know if you were ok. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't think straight without knowing that you were ok." He said feeling the tears stinging his eyes.

"Then when the Ninja Rangers came and said they knew where you were my heart almost skipped a beat, I thought finally I'll get to find you and you'd be ok. Kira I was so scared for you when I was in that building looking for you and thinking of all the things that went wrong. I'm glad now that you're here and you're ok. You might feel bad but you're here now and you'll be ok. And I promised myself and I promise to you, I will never let anything bad ever happen to you again Kira ok? You're like a daughter to me and I don't know what I'd do if I lost you."

Kira nodded also feeling the tears stinging her eyes.

"I swear I would first jump off Mount Everest and break every single bone in my body before I let something like this happen again." He promised letting his own tear fall.

"Never again Kira, I swear, never ever again ok? Never, ever, ever alright?"

Kira nodded again as the tears flowed freely. "Ok" she silently whispered.

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