Disclaimer: I do not own the power rangers or any of the weapons and/or original characters from that series. This is the third story in the "Saving the World, Again" series, so any characters from those stories that are mine, might be brought in. I do own the character Ally Jameson as I know she will appear in this story a good bit and I just wanted to let you know that she is my character from the beginning. I also own the characters of Janice Mitchell, Principal McEntire, Mallory Wiggins, David Jackson, Mrs. Thornsby, and Alabaster.
Now, on with the Story!
As soon as Tommy landed on the ship, a feeling of dread overtook him. He didn't really know why he felt like this, but he had learned to trust his gut instinct about how bad things were, even if nothing else told him otherwise. He just knew that things were worse than any of them had thought it would be.
It was far too quiet on that ship and it worried him. He had thought he would hear Trini crying or muttering to herself, but that wasn't occurring, it was completely silent. He had also assumed that Trini would be taking care of Jason and Kim, but he heard nothing, not one sound from below the deck. Was she hurt as well?
He hopped down the stairs three at a time to see that Kim and Jason were lying on the floor, in the same jumbled pile they had been in before they were teleported away. He wanted to check on them immediately, but he saw something that startled him far more only a few feet away from them. Trini was lying on the floor, unconscious and he was worried about her more because of the condition that he knew she was in. This really did not look good to him and he was going to have to pray that she was alright. He had no clue when anyone else would get there and that worried him. Billy was really the expert in this area, not him.
"Trini. Trini, honey, come on. I need you to look at me. Damn it, Trini look at me. You have to be all right," Tommy said, as he gently shook her shoulder and slapped her face a few times, but to no avail.
He quickly picked her up and was glad that he noticed that she was not bleeding, but he was still worried about her. Trini had been fine when she left the battle, so why was she passed out when he walked in? There was obviously something going on that they didn't know about, but he could only pray that it was not life threatening.
He returned to the kitchen where Kim and Jason still lay, as motionless as they were a few moments before. He removed both of their helmets and made sure that they were breathing on their own. That was something he had definitely been worried about.
Jason seemed to be doing better and was taking full breaths that was at least something that he wouldn't have to worry about with him. Kim was breathing shallowly, but she was breathing and that did comfort him, some. Tommy managed to move Jason on to a bed and he began to stir from his unconscious state.
Kim was a little bit rougher on him, as he could tell that she seemed to be going from bad to worse and he was not sure if he should move her at all. If there were other injuries present, he did not want to aggravate them anymore than they already were, but he wanted her to be comfortable and that floor was not comfortable. He knew because he had been forced to sleep on it for a couple of nights.
"Kim," Tommy whispered, as he pulled down the edge of her uniform and noticed that the bruises were becoming worse around her neck, as the minutes passed by. He didn't want to see this, he didn't want to deal with this right now, but he had to. He felt tears forming in his eyes to see her hurt like this, but he knew that she was going to survive this. She just had to survive this; he couldn't take it if she didn't make it through this mission. "Come on baby. Wake up Beautiful, I know you'll wake up."
"Tommy," Billy said, as they walked downstairs and saw him hunched over Kim's seemingly lifeless form. This was not what he had wanted to see when he first rounded the corner into the downstairs compartment and he knew that his work was cut out for him. They all looked horrible and he knew Tommy needed to be able to clear his mind, but that wouldn't happen until Kim was all right. He really didn't need for their leader to not even be able to pay attention to them because of what else was going on. However, he understood that Kim was all that was gong on in his mind. "Are they alright?"
"They're still breathing, but I'm worried. Kim was nearly strangled to death by Zeltrax and she probably took some hard hits before I got there and found both of them passed out. Jason seems fine, he's breathing easily, but he's not awake. Trini doesn't look good at all. I don't know what's wrong with her. She was passed out when I got here. There was nothing that I could do for her," Tommy said, as they all looked at him.
They all knew about Trini being pregnant and Billy was sure that he did not like what he was hearing from Tommy. Her being unconscious worried him more than Kim and Jason did at the moment. They had a reason to be knocked out, but Trini did not and Billy was not sure how he needed to treat this situation. He would love to send her to a doctor, but doing that would mean an almost certain death wish with Jason. He was going to leave that decision up to him, if Jason woke up soon.
"Bring Kim in here with them and we'll start treating the three of them," Billy said as Tommy gingerly picked Kim up off the floor and then placed her on a bed that was placed next to Jason.
Billy's first assessment of them did not give them much promise for any progress during the night. Jason seemed to be suffering from a slight concussion and although most doctors suggest that you keep the person awake, he did not want to risk being knocked out by Jason. Jason did not know what was going on with Trini and they were not sure how they were going to explain it, but they had to tell him the truth about Trini if he asked.
Kim was still struggling to breathe and he had put an oxygen mask on her, which had seemed to help her some, but not enough to make him or anyone comfortable about the situation. He could not figure out what was making her stay unconscious, but he was sure she would eventually wake up. Kim always seemed to be able to do that when no one else expected it to be done.
Trini was a completely different story though. She seemed to be fine, but what seemed to have made her faint was the sudden loss of the powers coursing through her veins when she de-morphed. They did not know what would make her wake up or when she would, but they knew that things were going to be rough over the next few hours, if she did not wake up. They were watching to make sure that she showed no signs of a miscarriage and that was what worried them the most. If she showed any signs, they were going to have to send her back to Earth, but they prayed that didn't happen or they really would catch an earful from Jason.
"Conner, you alright?" Kira asked, as he looked at the three rangers on the beds. He hadn't said anything since they had gotten back aboard the ship and she didn't know how to take that type of reaction from him. He was always talking about something and this silence was honestly scaring her. It hit home to all of them that it could have been any of them in those beds and they didn't like that reality too well.
"Yeah, I'll be fine," Conner said, as he put both of his arms around her and gave her a long squeeze. He didn't want to start talking about all of the bad things that could have happened to her, but he knew that the time would eventually come when that was all that he could talk about and he just wanted to hold it off a little bit longer.
"Oh, where am I?" Jason asked, as he shook his head in agony, while the pain crept into his body, nothing would come into focus and he didn't really know what that meant for him. If he was dead, then this was not as peaceful as he thought it would be.
"Heading back home. You took it pretty rough today," Tommy said, as he looked up from Kimberly's bed and over at Jason. He could tell that Jason had not looked around the room and when he did, he was going to have a definite mood change.
Tommy could only pray that the other rangers were prepared to restrain him, if necessary. He didn't have the energy to do that right now, although he might be the only one that could help control Jason. There was no way that they would be able to completely control him when he figured it all out.
"Where's Trini?" Jason asked, as he looked around at the expectant faces and noticed that she was missing from them. They had been waiting for him to ask that question and they were not sure how they were going to answer the rest of his questions, as they knew that they were coming.
"Right there," Billy said, as he pointed to the left of Jason. Jason thought that she was just sitting down in a chair, but when he looked over, he saw that she was lying in a bed as well and it made no sense to him why she was like that.
She couldn't have been hurt during the battle. They would have contacted him if something had happened to her. They had promised him that they would do that much for him.
"What's wrong?" Jason asked as he sat up and felt as if the room was spinning around him, but he somehow was able to hold himself upright. He then focused his eyes on Billy and then looked at Tommy, who was refusing to look at him. He knew something was up if Tommy would not even look him in the eyes and he wondered what secret they were holding back from him. "What is going on here? Why is she on that bed? What happened to her? I thought that she was fine."
"Uh, we can't really say," Billy said, as he looked over at Trini and she was still out cold. He was not the one that needed to tell him what was going on, but he got the feeling that Jason was going to push until he said something.
"Billy, she's my wife," Jason said, as his voice rose to a near yell and he saw Billy diverting his eyes towards Trini, as if trying to get him to calm down. When Jason looked over, he saw that she was lying in what looked to be a rather peaceful sleep, but he wanted to know what caused her to faint. It was obvious that she was not just sleeping.
"I know, Jason, but it is her choice that we not tell you, not mine. She does not want one of us to tell you about it," Billy said, as Jason slid off the bed and walked unsteadily over to Billy.
"Why do you know instead of me then? Is it really that important that I am completely left out of the loop?" Jason asked, as Tommy looked up from Kim. The last thing they needed was for Jason to knock Billy out because he wouldn't tell him something. They had all known that this might happen to Trini and it was not selfish for them to wish Jason wouldn't do anything, Billy had to be able to take care of the two of them if they stood any chance at waking up.
"He was the middle man Jason. He wasn't supposed to know. Only Kim was supposed to know about it and it kinda spread from there," Tommy said, as Jason looked over at his best friend. He could not understand why that statement made him feel worse, but it did.
"You know, too?" Jason asked, looking enraged, but Tommy merely nodded his head yes. There was not much more left to be said. He didn't have any way to defend himself and he was sure Jason was not going to go after Kim right now. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"It's her business to tell, but if you keep acting like this, you're going to find out in a way that you don't like. You'll regret it later if you don't let her tell you," Tommy said, as Jason glared over at him. He didn't care who told him, he just wanted to know what the hell was going on. "Fine, you want me to tell you?"
"It would be nice if I was included in this little secret. She is my wife," Jason said, as many of the others shook their heads no. They did not think it wise for Tommy to say anything, but it seemed that they had no choice in the matter. Jason wanted to know what was going on and Tommy was going to tell him and then allow him to feel like a jackass.
"You have to promise me one thing, Jason, before I'll tell you this," Tommy said, trying to buy a little more time, but knowing that it was really useless. Trini did not look like she was going to wake up in the next few seconds and stop him, but he could always hope. Hope was what got him through a lot of things nowadays.
"What's that?" Jason asked, as his anger was starting to become more controlled, but he still needed to know. She was his wife. He deserved to know something of this magnitude.
"You won't be mad with her. If anything, be mad with me, be mad with Kim, but don't be mad at her, Jason. She didn't want to worry you," Tommy said as Jason stared at him. Why was Tommy setting him up like this? The news couldn't be that life altering, or could it be?
"I promise," Jason said, as Aisha left the room and several of the others stared at Tommy. He had just taken his life in his own hands and they didn't know if Tommy knew what he was doing, but he honestly had no choice. He would be more at risk if he didn't say anything.
"There's no easy way to say this and I'm not the best person for you to hear it from, but you insist that you know. You really sure about this?" Tommy asked, as Jason nodded his head yes. They all could see the stalling tactic in action, but they knew it was not going to work.
"Tommy, call us if Kim gets any worse," Zack said, as he and Billy ushered the rangers out of the room, which suddenly seemed too crowded. They thought it would be better if Jason only had a few people to lash out at and Tommy would probably be able to calm him down, in some way, but he didn't know how that would happen.
"You're going to be a father," Tommy said, looking Jason in the eyes and seeing the realization dawning in his eyes. He could see some anger, some frustration, and other emotions, but he saw that Jason would keep his promise and not be mad at her.
Jason was floored by hearing that. They hadn't even been trying and now she was pregnant. He was definitely going to have to talk with Tommy about some parenting tips, as he was sure he was not ready for this responsibility, but it was sitting there in front of him and he was not going to ask Trini to do something crazy.
"She's pregnant? As in going to have a baby?" Jason asked, as Tommy shook his head yes and he began shaking his head. "We weren't even trying."
"I figured that much out on my own, all of us could tell that," Tommy said, with a smile as he watched Jason. He was taking the news much better than he had expected and he was so glad that he did not have to wrestle him into being quiet about everything that was happening.
"Why didn't she tell me that she was pregnant?" Jason asked, as he sat down next to her bed and Tommy looked over at him. He didn't know the answer to that question, but he could throw out some options that might make him feel better.
"That's the million dollar question, Jason. We encouraged her to tell you, but she was so insistent that it was best this way. We tried to keep her as safe as we could, but we couldn't do anything to stop her from going out there," Tommy said, as he knew that Jason might jump him for accusing Trini of being reckless, but it seemed he was too shocked to really have anything like that enter his mind.
"What happened?" Trini asked, as she stirred for the first time and Jason looked down at her, with a sense of relief washing over him. He knew what it was like to be relieved when she woke up, but it had never been like this. He had never had this much to lose before now.
"You fainted," Jason said, calmly, as she looked over at him and saw that he looked worried about her, but she had expected that. He just didn't know everything and she was not sure that now was the best time to tell him, considering what he had probably just been through.
"You okay?" Trini asked, as he nodded his head and cocked his head to get a better view of her face. Why didn't she just tell him right now? He could tell she was worried about something and he wanted to make it better, but he had to make sure they were on the same page.
"I just got a little beat up," Jason said, with a grin, as he knew that he would tell her about the fight later. She didn't really need to here about it right now. It would worry her to pieces to know that he had fought against Mesogogg and Lord Zedd. She hadn't wanted him to do something like that unless it was a last resort and it had been. "But it's nothing too bad. Anything on your mind?"
"Actually, there is," Trini said, as he nodded his head that she could go ahead, but she felt that she couldn't. She couldn't take him yelling at her for being so irresponsible. She was better off just waiting a few more days and suffering the quietness she had placed on herself. "I…I don't know…I can't."
"It's alright," Jason said, as he gave her a hug and then lifted her out of the bed and placed her in his lap. He didn't know if he could put her through the emotional turmoil that was going on inside her head for much longer. He loved her and he couldn't hurt her. He just hoped that she would trust that he wouldn't be mad, because he knew that he was lucky that things were not much worse for him than they were right now. "Whatever you have to tell me, I promise that I won't do anything to you."
"Jason, I'm…" Trini said, cutting herself off and looking into his eyes. She couldn't do it, she just couldn't do it right now, and it was going to kill him to find out. She had always been the responsible one, now she had decided she would rather risk getting herself and their baby killed. He was going to go absolutely crazy. "I'm sorry."
"I know," Jason said, as she looked up at him. Why was he deciding to act like that right now? She really didn't need for him to act like a jackass and the look she gave him told him that. "Trini, I don't mean in that way. I know about the baby. Before you ask, I made Tommy tell me and I'm not mad at you."
"You really mean that?" Trini asked, as she had some tears threatening to roll down her cheeks. She had been so worried about how he would react when he found out, that all she felt was relief that he was not yelling or screaming.
"Of course I do," Jason said, as he reached up and gently wiped the tears away. "You feeling alright?"
"I'm fine. How's everyone else?" Trini asked as Jason shook his head that she did not really want to know the answer to that question. Sure, most of the rangers were fine, but Kim was not and Trini was in no condition to hear that type of news. She had taken it hard the last time Kim was hurt and she was probably going to take it worse this time. Tommy and Kim had more to lose than most of them did if something happened and Trini would surely let that be known to all of them if they tried to act uncaring. "That bad?"
"Yeah, that bad," Jason muttered as Tommy looked up from his post and then turned to the two of them. He looked to be on the verge of crying, but was holding himself together, for some reason.
"Tommy, are you alright?" Trini asked, as he nodded his head and then she smiled at him. He was always trying to be good for everyone else, but he needed to do something for himself this time. He couldn't just keep holding all of his feelings inside, it was not healthy for him to do that and be in an enclosed space. It usually caused damage to the space, but they were willing to let almost anything happen today, so he would feel better. "It's okay to cry, Tommy."
"I don't have any tears left in me, Trini. I've cried too much lately," Tommy said as he looked at Kim and then gently traced the bruises with his fingers.
He knew that she was still in pain, but he hoped she would wake up soon. He just needed to know that she was going to be fine and seeing her eyes open, always made him feel that she would be all right.
"What happened?" Trini asked out of curiosity as she saw the bruises and wondered what had went wrong out there today. Kim didn't usually get hurt like that on a mission and she knew that things must have gone awry for Tommy to have no choice but to let that happen.
"Zeltrax, he tried to kill her, but we got there in time. I should have never let her keep fighting after that happened. I'm so damn stupid," Tommy muttered, as they heard the machine begin to beep at a faster pace and then looked back down at Kim. "Jason, go get Billy."
"Alright," Jason said as he picked Trini up and then placed her back on the bed. He was worried about Kim, but he was sure that Tommy was just overreacting to the situation at hand. He had the tendency to do that when Kim was hurt, no matter how bad it was.
"Tommy, what's wrong?" Trini asked as she saw Kim twitch, but noticed Tommy was placing a hand on her shoulder and seemed to be holding her still.
"She's shaking," Tommy said, as Billy walked in and quickly shoed Tommy out of the room, slamming the door in his face. He was absolutely no help right now and he did not need to be in there with the way things might turn out. "Billy… she's my wife!"
"She'll be fine, Tommy," Jason said, reassuringly, as he heard Trini squeal, which was not something that he really wanted to hear.
Meanwhile, Billy was battling to try to subdue the seizure that had taken hold of Kim's body. He had been worried about Kim, but it seemed to him that she was having a delayed reaction to her powers being changed or something even worse that they couldn't understand. It seemed that the injuries had caused it to finally overwhelm her body and he was going to have to fight to gain control back from the powers, but it might be a losing battle, unless someone was able to help him.
"Tommy," Billy said, as he came to the door and saw that Kim was seizing and he felt his own knees go weak and he grabbed hold of the door frame to steady himself. "I need you to take her powers away."
"What?" Tommy asked, completely stunned that Billy would even ask him to do such a thing. That certainly did not seem like it was going to help her get better. It actually made it seem to him as if things were going to get worse with the powers being gone. "Billy, she's already weak enough."
"Just do it. Her oxygen supply has been cut off long enough, Tommy. This is the only way to stop the seizure," Billy stated, as he watched Tommy morph. He then began calling on her weapons and after another two minutes, the seizure stopped and she lay still again.
"Will she be alright?" Tommy asked, quietly as he felt his own power level had risen in the last few minutes. He then walked over to be closer to her, knowing that he would not leave her side, until she woke up. Billy would not be able to figure out a way to move him if anything else happened.
"I don't know, Tommy. I want to move her to the communication room, that way we can teleport her if anything else happens to her," Billy said as Tommy looked at Billy with a weary expression.
He didn't want to think of this happening again to her and Billy knew that, but he had to be the realistic one. No one else seemed willing to take that role right now, as Tommy and Jason had things that concerned them much more.
"Billy, should we go ahead and teleport her?" Tommy asked, as he did not want to deal with another seizure. Not unless there was a full staff of doctors around to treat her, as he was starting to consider asking them to teleport Tanya to where they were, which was something that he was sure Alpha wouldn't agree with.
"I don't think so Tommy. She'll be fine or she should be fine," Billy said as Tommy reached to pick Kim up off the bed. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that Tommy was carrying her and had a large bruise on the side of his face, which probably came from Goldar, as she could remember Tommy fighting Goldar, but not much more than that.
"Tommy," Kim whispered, hoping to catch his attention, with as little physical effort as possible, but she felt her throat burn as she spoke. She then resorted to poking him in the stomach with her index finger, which seemed to not hurt nearly as bad as speaking did.
"That's cruel," Tommy said, looking down at her, thinking her elbow might accidentally be bumping into his stomach, but discovered she was intently staring up at him and poking him, trying to get him to look down at her. Why did it always seem that she woke up while he was carrying her? "Shit, Kim."
"Ow," Kim muttered as he laid her down on the counter, rather roughly. He had to recompose himself, quickly. He would have dropped her if the counter had not been so close by and he knew that he had surprised her by his roughness. He had just seemed to lose the ability to be able to hold anything up after she woke up like that.
"Tommy, you alright?" Billy asked, as he saw him holding himself up against the counter, clearly trying to regain his composure. If Tommy was to go out too, he honestly did not know what he would do. He was not prepared to take care of Kim, in the condition that she was in, let alone Tommy as well.
"I'll be fine," Tommy somehow managed to mutter; as he looked up and then released a long breath that he had not realized he was holding. He then quickly wiped his eyes and gave Kim a gentle hug. He didn't want to hurt her anymore, but he knew she was not out of the woods yet. She still had to get back to breathing normally and that could take quite awhile, considering the unknown damage that might have been done to her neck by Zeltrax's steely grip. "You need anything?"
"Water," Kim mumbled as Billy's eyes widened.
He had not realized she was awake and now that she was, he hoped to figure out if there were any further problems that would need investigating. He imagined any doctor would want to keep her in the hospital for a couple of days and he hoped they could recuperate her while they traveled home, even without most normal hospital equipment. He could just imagine taking her to the hospital and a doctor asking how she survived the injury that would sure be a story that he would love to see Tommy make up.
"I'll get it," Billy said as he reached into the cabinets and pulled out a glass. He then filled it with water and passed it to Tommy, who had seemed to regain some of his composure.
"Can you sit up?" Tommy asked, as Kim looked at him and then shook her head no and winced when she realized that she couldn't move her head without the whole room spinning.
She felt extremely weak, even lying down, and knew she would not be able to hold herself up. He then pushed her up and held her in a seated position, as she took a swallow of water, which stopped some of the burning in her throat, but it did not completely relieve it. She wondered what had happened to her to make it all this bad.
"Do you remember anything?" Billy asked, as Tommy gave him a sharp look. He did not think that they needed to dig just yet. She was barely able to sit up with his support, much less speak in full, coherent, sentences right now.
"Billy, wait. We can ask questions later," Tommy said, as Kim looked up at him. She did not understand what she might know. She knew she had not done anything that even bordered on miraculous this time. She didn't even remember if she had gotten to Mesogogg and Lord Zedd.
"Tommy, I'm dizzy," Kim muttered as he got a firmer grip on her upper body and held her closer to him, while she continued to lean back against him even more. She needed to lie back down or she was going to vomit up the water she had just drunk. "Let me lie down. I really don't feel good."
"Okay," Tommy said, as he lowered her back onto the table and then gave her another hug. Her powers might have been taken away, for the time being, but she still had the will to live and that was even more important.
"Kim, I need you to stay awake for me. I don't want anything else to happen to you," Billy said, as Tommy settled himself on a kitchen stool and then placed his head on her lap. He was exhausted and knew he would go to sleep soon, just because she had woken up and he was not as worried about her. He just hoped that she would not be mad at him for doing that. He didn't know if he was prepared to deal with her being mad right away.
"Let him sleep," Kim muttered as Jason walked in to wake Tommy up. Kim was barely able to keep herself awake, but she did not want him to move, as she was actually comfortable right now.
"I thought you'd be asleep by now," Jason said, as Trini walked up behind her and went to get some crackers and Sprite, to try to calm her stomach down some. She was feeling horrible right now and she knew that if she didn't get her nausea to subside then she was going to be sick for several hours. She was sure that Billy would just love to have to deal with her throwing up all over the place, as well as Jason's concussion and Kim's neck.
"Billy told me to stay awake," Kim said quietly as Jason walked over and gently traced one of the bruises. He had no idea how she had held on as long as she had, but he was thankful that they did not have to deal with a dead ranger right now. "That hurts, Jason."
"Hey, I still have some of that bruise remover," Jason said as Kim looked up at him and then shook her head that he should go get it.
"Will you?" Kim asked as he nodded his head that he would, although he was going to send Adam back in there. He needed to stay with Trini right now.
Kira and Conner's reunion
"Hey, how are they?" Kira asked as Conner walked onto the deck of the ship. He was so tired right now, but he needed to see her. He needed to talk to her about what these last four days had been like for him and he knew that she had been waiting for him to do so. She always seemed to be patient with him, when no one else would even sit down and wait this long to hear something.
"They're all awake now, but Kim seems to still be the most unsteady. She took it hard out there," Conner said, as he really had no idea of what had happened, but he did not have the guts to wake Tommy up and ask him what had happened. Jason was not around to stop him from backhanding him into a wall.
"Do they think she'll be alright?" Kira asked, as the coldness of the air began biting at her cheeks, turning them pink. Conner, who was holding a light jacket in his hands, shoved it towards Kira without a word, while she gave him a thankful smile. It was funny to watch him be so awkward about something, but she was not going to joke on him now. He obviously had come up here with a purpose in mind. "Thank you. Come on, sit down."
"Billy said it'll take sometime, but he hopes that it'll have cleared up by the time we get back," Conner said, as he sat down a couple of feet away.
He didn't know how far away he should stay or how comfortable she really was with him. He just prayed that this afternoon when she had given him a hug, that she had meant more than friendship by it.
"Is it that bad?" Kira asked, as she had only caught glimpses of Kim and Jason when she was down stairs. They both looked to have been through it, but it didn't seem like it would take them a long time to recover. They were more resilient when it came to injuries, at least compared to the younger rangers.
"According to Billy, yes, but we can't really talk to Dr. O about it. He's kinda hopeful that everything will be good from here on out. I don't blame, his life has been bad enough lately," Conner said, as Kira gave a sympathetic nod.
"Yeah, but I don't know if he would say that it has been that bad though," Kira said, as she knew that there mentor was proud of what they had been able to accomplish and happy to be father.
"When someone tries to kill the person you love most in the world, it's pretty bad, Kira," Conner said and she could tell that he seemed to be speaking from personal experience.
"Why do you act as if you know what it is like?" Kira asked with a smile and a slight tilt of her head, so that she could see a better angle of his face. He was so cute when he was embarrassed about telling her something.
"Because I got an idea of it the last few days," Conner said, rather shyly while Kira stood up and then went to sit down next to him.
"Oh, so you love Ethan, now do you?" Kira asked, as he looked down and the floor and then jerked his head up to face her smiling grin. "I'm just joking Conner. It's really been that bad for you?"
"I got in a fight with Dr. O my first night here. I'd say that it has been pretty bad," Conner said, as Kira stared at him. What could have possibly made him want to fight Dr. O?
"What made you do that?" Kira asked, as he looked down at the floor and then faced her, knowing there was no way to lie around it.
"Actually, he jumped because I told him that he didn't know what it was like to have someone taken away from him," Conner said, as Kira just looked at him. He had been out of his mind to accuse Dr. O of something like that when he was not in a very good mental state himself.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you felt like that," Kira said as Conner sat there, quietly, for several moments. She had rarely seen him this quiet, ever, but she knew better than to interrupt the silence. He was obviously trying to formulate some sort of response that would let her know how he felt, but it was taking him awhile.
"I didn't know that I felt this way until you were gone. I didn't want to feel this way," Conner said while he sat and rocked himself back and forth, hoping to find a way to amuse himself.
"I wish you would have told me sooner," Kira said as he looked up at her and saw that she had been silently pleading for him to look her way. "But I didn't help things, did I?"
"No, you didn't Kira. Dating Trent didn't exactly make me feel that you liked me," Conner said, as she looked over at him and laughed. He had really thought all of this out and that was saying something when you talked about Conner.
"Conner, if you are going to hold that over my head for the rest of my life, I don't want to date you. You have to learn to let things go," Kira said, as Conner placed his arm around her. It did not matter to him, whatever she asked; he would do, well within reason.
"Alright then, I let go of the past and I get you. Fair deal?" Conner asked, as Kira shook her head yes.
If they had known that downstairs, the rangers were speculating how long it would take them to agree to go out, they would have been embarrassed beyond belief, but they knew nothing. They just knew that they were heading home, after a mission that they were not likely to forget anytime soon. They were probably going to be grounded by their parents, for life, when they came back home, but it was just something they had to suffer through. They had saved the world from the wrath of Lord Zedd and Mesogogg, but they would get no fame or no glory for what they did. No one would know and they liked that, now if they could only convince Dr. Oliver to scramble their parents' memory of the last few days and everything would be perfectly fine.
AN: Alright, the fighting is now officially over, but I'm not going to leave you hanging like this. There are several more chapters to come and I hope that you will enjoy the rest of them as their ranger life is put away.