Thank you to JPHBK for allowing me to borrow the concept of the window entry from "Reflections of Red and Pink".

Disclaimer: Power Rangers belongs to Saban. I own nothing other than the original character (Phoenix) and her powers.


Kim turned on to her side for the umpteenth time as she lay awake in her bed. She glanced up at her alarm clock on her bedside table to see it read 12:30 in the morning. Letting out an irritated groan, she kicked off her covers and sat up.

"This isn't working." Kim thought, running a hand through her hair. Typically, she would be asleep by now, but her mind refused to shut off for the night and let her rest. She stood up and smoothed down her pajamas, then walked over to the window in front of her bed. She turned the latch, and swung it open. Lifting herself onto the balls of her feet, she hoisted herself up and on to the window sill facing her backyard. She brought up her right foot to rest on the window sill, holding her leg close to her body, while her left foot dangled just above the floor of her bedroom.

She inhaled deeply, enjoying the night air. Her mind went over what happened earlier in the day, then everything she and her friends had been through in the last three short months since becoming Power Rangers. She watched the few cars that drove down the street, past the line of houses that sat behind hers. Then her eyes came to settle on a second-floor window of the house located directly behind hers, making a small smile form on her face.

"Hey, what are you thinking about?" a familiar male voice quietly called out from below the tree next to her window. She looked down to see a familiar masculine silhouette being illuminated by the moonlight, dressed in a red tank top, jeans, and white sneakers.

"Hey you." She replied in a voice low enough for Jason to hear, her smile growing wider.

"Hey." Was all he said in response, returning the smile. "Is it okay to come up?"

Kim shook her head in the affirmative, then watched as he quietly and expertly hauled himself up into the tree, finding the nooks and branches he'd climbed many times before. He hauled himself up and onto a broad and sturdy branch right outside her window, balancing himself on it and bringing him to her eye level.

"Hi" Jason said again, a smile plastered on his face from his perch in the tree before cautiously stepping onto the stretch of the roof below her dormer window. He carefully sat down beside the window, facing her and pulled his knees up to rest his arms on them.

"Hi." Kim replied. "Mom is asleep. She got home late from work today and went straight to bed."

"Then I'm not in danger of being chased off the roof." He quipped, making Kim roll her eyes at him. Even though Maddy Hart, Kim's mother, had known Jason and his parents since he was five-years-old, and knew she could trust both teens to be left alone together, they preferred to avoid alerting her to their late night meets to talk. It had become a routine they had started when Kim was eight-years-old and her parents arguments were practically a daily occurrence. Kim had started sneaking over the fence of their separated backyards to his room on a nightly basis during that time, his house becoming her sanctuary.

"I was wondering if I'd catch you tonight. I thought you'd be asleep by now." Jason said from his spot on the roof beside her window.

Kimberly shook her head "no". "Not having much luck getting to sleep. What about you?"

"Same." He replied. "I manage to fall asleep for a few minutes, but I keep waking back up. So, just decided to get up and try my luck to see if you were still awake."

"Did the dream come back?" Kim asked.

He shake his head in the negative before thinking back to the look on her face as he approached her house a few minutes ago. "You did look a little distracted. You didn't even hear me jump the fence or approach."

"Well, in all fairness, I'm pretty convinced you are part ninja." She teased, crinkling her nose at him. A quirk of hers that Jason found incredibly adorable whenever she did it.

"So, what were you thinking about?" he asked, shifting into his part of confidant.

"Everything." Kim simply said on a long exhale out. Jason just nodded his head in understanding.

"The last few weeks have been pretty crazy, huh?" he reflected, thinking over what the rangers had been through lately.

"Tell me about it." Kim answered. "We break Rita's spell to free Tommy and have him join us, only to lose him and his powers." She sighed, her eyes picking a spot in the distance of her backyard to focus on. "Now he's gone." She stated as Jason noticed the hurt enter her voice, his heart clenching at her crestfallen expression.

"Then that bizarre dream we all had, and now…Phoenix." She continued to vent. "It's just a lot to take in on a short amount of time."

Jason shook his head in the affirmative as he listened to her confide in him. "It is a little overwhelming when you think about it."

"Yeah." Kim replied, lifting her shoulders in a small shrug. "I trust Zordon, and I have a feeling that Phoenix isn't here to take Tommy's place, but…"

"It's too soon." Jason finished her thought.

"Right." Kim responded. She'd been thinking over Zordon's theory about why Phoenix was now with them and how they might have sought her out in their subconscious as they slept.

"It would be okay, though." Jason reassured her, breaking the silence that fell between them. "If Zordon brought her here to make her a ranger, we'd have a sixth again. She'd be part of the team."

"And I'm all for that. I am." Kim added. "Another ranger and an addition to the team would be amazing. It's just…" she hesitated not sure how to put the thought running through her head into words.

"Tommy's been through so much. If anyone deserves to become a ranger again, it's him…oh gosh, I sound horrible." Kim scolded herself, feeling like she was putting blame on Phoenix for something she didn't do. Guilt filled her as she fidgeted in her spot on the window sill, tucking a lock of her loose hair behind her ear.

Jason smiled gently at her. "No, you don't. You're just worried about a friend. I was thinking the same thing earlier."

"You were?" Kim asked, dropping her eyes to look at Jason.

"It's why I couldn't sleep." He confessed. He watched as his words seem to give her some sort of comfort and the tension slip away as her shoulders dropped.

"I'd bet the others have been thinking the same thing." Jason added, watching as Kim shook her head in understanding thinking about their mutual friends. "But it's like you said, Kim. We all trust Zordon. If he introduced Phoenix to us, it was for a good reason and he thinks she can help us."

"You're right." She responded, thinking about the young woman now back at the Command Center. "I do feel bad about us just leaving her behind."

"We didn't have much of a choice." Jason replied. "Alpha has to run those tests to make sure her powers are stable, and our parents would find it weird if one of us brought her home saying she needed a place to stay and explaining why."

"Yeah, I have a hard time as it is trying to come up with a decent excuse when we have to bail to fight Rita's latest ugly." Kim laughed thinking over the excuse she'd given her mother earlier that night after coming back from the Command Center. "Billy usually comes up with better ones."

"That makes two of us." Jason replied as he laughed too.

Kim placed a finger against her lips. "Shhh! You'll wake my mom." She giggled, dropping her finger.

"You started it!" he said quietly, playfully shoving her, making Kim giggle more. "I'm sure Zordon and Alpha will figure it out." Jason added after their laughter calmed down. He starred at her for a moment, a question floating around in the back of his head he'd been hesitant to ask.

"Speaking of Tommy…have you heard from him?" he finally asked and winced when he saw the smile fade away from Kim's face. Kim shook her head "no".

"Not yet." She said, letting out a long sigh. "Jase…it's been over a month since he left."

"I know, Kim." He said gently as he watched her from his spot beside her. She drew up her knees and wrapped her arms around them. "He's probably still processing everything with losing his powers."

"I know…I can't imagine what he's probably going through right now." Kim replied thinking of their mutual friend.

"But…" Jason interjected, reading the expression on her face indicating that there was something she wasn't saying.

"We're his friends. We're supposed to be there for him…for each other." She finished.

Jason placed a hand on her shoulder. "We are, Kim." He replied. "Give him time. He'll call when he's ready."

"I just wish…" she began.

"That he'd talk to you?" Jason finished her thought, a sense of irritation rising in him as he continued to watch his best friend. Tommy made it no mystery that he was enamored with Kimberly when he and Tommy competed against each other in the karate tournament over a month ago. Kim had her shared interest in the new guy in town as well, which had bothered Jason at the time. But now, Tommy was his friend…his brother. His friends' happiness meant more to him than his own, but to see the hurt on Kimberly's face over Tommy not even reaching out to her bothered him a great deal.

"He makes her happy. Or…made her happy?" To his knowledge, Kim and Tommy had never defined their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, if that's what they even were now.

"Oh, don't even go there, man." Jason mentally chastised himself. At some point during their time in fifth grade, he'd stopped seeing Kim as his "little sister", and began seeing her as something more than just his best friend. Part of him wanted to see where his new feelings for Kim could lead, but the other side was terrified of what it would do to their friendship.

Kim was an integral part of his life, and the thought of her not being in it for a second was unthinkable to him. "I don't want to lose that. I can't lose that." But as much as he repeated that to himself, now, five years later, instead of his feelings of infatuation fading away, he felt the same feelings as strong as ever as he gazed at her figure sitting in the window.

"Reading my mind again?" Kim teased, breaking Jason out of his thoughts. He shrugged, giving her a half-smile. "Depends, was I right?"

Kim shook her head in the affirmative. "You're right." She dropped her left leg back to the inside of her window, leaning her head back against the window frame.

"Maybe he thinks he can't talk to me." Kim thought out loud.

"Kim…Tommy is crazy about you." Jason replied, trying to set her mind at ease. She dropped her head to look at him.

"You think so?" she asked.

"I'm positive." He answered.

"How are you so sure?" she asked hearing the conviction in his voice at the statement of their mutual friend's feelings for her.

"Because, he'd be insane not to be." Jason stated, giving her a look that made her face turn a light shade of pink.

Kim starred at Jason, his words stunning her into silence and her heart hammering wildly inside her chest. Her face must have reflected her shock, as she saw Jason smile at her emotional state. "What does he mean by that?"

"Jase…wha-" she began before Jason interrupted her.

"Kim, remember the karate tournament? When we first met Tommy?" he asked, purposely blocking her from asking him to explain what he meant. "Please, don't ask." He almost let out of a sigh of relief when he saw her shake her head in the affirmative instead of re-attempting her question.

"Yes." Kim replied.

"Before I came out of the locker room to meet back up with you guys, Tommy approached me and asked about you." Jason responded.

Kim's brows furrowed together. "Really? Why?"

Jason couldn't help the short laugh that escaped from him at her response. "He wanted to know about the "pretty girl in pink" who was with me." He replied, recalling the question Tommy had asked him during their brief conversation in the locker room.

"And he wanted to know if…" Jason cut his sentence short as embarrassment settled into him.

"If…what?" Kim asked waiting for him to finish his sentence. Jason awkwardly cleared his throat, feeling his face turn a shade of red that probably rivaled the color of his ranger suit.

He brought a hand up to nervously rub his chin. "If…you were my…um…girlfriend." He finally managed to get out. Kim felt her eyes go wide, certain the blush that was on her face now matched his.

"He thought Jase and I were together?" Kim felt her heart flutter at the idea as her mind began to conjure up images of her and Jason. Quickly, she mentally scolded herself for thinking such things and pushed the mental images out of her head. "Stop it! Jase and I are friends. Best friends! And there's Tommy."

"U-um…what did you tell him?" Kim asked, finally finding her voice again.

"I told him we weren't. That we're just friends." Jason replied, managing to make his voice steady and clear.

"Just friends…" Kim felt a sharp pang of hurt grip at her heart at those words, before she once again pushed the feeling back down from wherever they had surfaced from.

"Best friends." Kim said correcting him, forcing a smile on her face to try and keep Jason from reading her inital reaction. It didn't work. He'd caught the momentary flash of hurt in her eyes, before she'd managed to cover it. He could always pick up on the smallest things about her that others managed to miss.

"I saw that." Jason thought to himself, but like Kim, he shut his mind from reading too much into the hurt he'd seen in her eyes. "She's with Tommy." He reminded himself.

"Best friends." He said, going along with her correction. Silence fell over them, neither one sure what else to say.

"Hey." Jason said after a while, finally coming up with an idea. "Why don't we meet at the park tomorrow to train? It's been a few days since I started showing you that new kata."

Kim smiled at him, thankful for the change in subject, but shook her head "no". "I'd love to, Jase, but I can't. I'm going to be stuck here at home all day tomorrow."

"Why? What's going on?" Jason asked.

"I promised my mom that I'd help her clean out the attic tomorrow." She answered.

Jason raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "Is she getting rid of some old stuff?"

"She wants to renovate it into an extra bedroom, since it has those big windows facing the garden and the park." Kim explained. "And she's been toying around with the idea of having a guest room for when friends and family come to visit instead of having me give up my room."

Kim shrugged her shoulders. "So, she wants to clear it out so we can have a contractor come and price out how much all the work will cost."

"Well, what if I come over early tomorrow and help you?" Jason offered as he now found himself wanting to spend the day with her.

Her eyes lit up as his offer. "Seriously? You wouldn't mind?" Kim asked.

"Anything for you." He thought. "Sure. I'll call the guys in the morning and see if they want to come by and help."

Kim dropped her leg down, to lean forward and put her arms around Jason's neck, pulling him into a hug. "That would be great! Thanks, Jase."

He returned the embrace, giving her a light squeeze in affection. "It's nothing. Besides, it gives me the chance to see if I can find anything incriminating on you to tease you about." Kim pulled back far enough to give Jason a playful smack on his arm, causing him to laugh.

A thought formed in Jason's head. "Did your mom find a contractor?" he asked.

Kim shook her head "no". "I don't think so. She was going to start calling around tomorrow."

"Then, I'll ask my dad about it. They're friends, so he'd be more than happy to help out." Jason commented.

Kim gave him a look. "Have I told you how much I love you?" she asked. No matter how humble Jason was, it never failed to move her with how generous he was, not just with his friends, but with strangers as well.

"I love you too." Jason responded. "I'll ask my dad in the morning before I call the guys."

"I can call them." Kim insisted. "Don't worry about it."

"You'll already have your hands full with clearing the attic. I'll call them." Jason replied.

"Jason." She said.

"Kimberly." He said

They starred at each other for several moments before she rolled her eyes, and smiled at him in surrender. "Okay, okay. You call them."

Jason smiled in triumph before peaking in her window to see the alarm clock on her bedside table reading 1:30am. "It's late. I should go and let you sleep." "I don't want to go."

"No!" Kim quickly said, grabbing his arm. She bit her lip as she realized how loud she'd spoken, both of them holding their breath and listening closely for the footfalls of her mother. They let out a breath they'd both been holding after waiting several seconds, realizing no one was coming.

"Way to nearly blow our cover, Hart." Jason teased.

"Sorry!" She exclaimed quietly, stifling a giggle. "Don't go yet."

"It's late, Kim. And you have a lot to do tomorrow." Jason insisted, starting to move to get up to take his leave.

Kim gently tightened her grip on his arm, pulling him to sit back down. "Pleeease? Stay a little longer?"

Jason gave her a look, making Kim pout and give him her puppy dog eyes. Jason groaned at the look on her face, finding it too cute. "That's playing dirty, Hart."

"Then stay a little longer." She insisted.

Jason chuckled, finally hanging his head in defeat. "All right, I'll stay, but only for another thirty minutes."

"Deal." She consented.

"So…" Jason said as he looked at Kimberly.

"So…what?" she replied giving him a mocking smile.

Jason laughed at her response. "Mind if I come in for a little bit?" he asked gesturing to her room with a nod of his head.

"Actually, I'm thinking about calling the police and telling them that there is a strange boy on the roof outside my bedroom window." Kim replied, grinning at him, not moving from her spot on her window sill.

"Don't you hate it when that happens?" Jason quipped back, playing along and narrowing his eyes in mock annoyance.

"Totally the worst!" she responded. "Wait here." Kim said, letting go of his arm as Jason raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

Kim slid herself down from the window sill, dropping back into her room. Jason watched as she walked over to her dresser and pulled some clothes out before walking into her bathroom. She walked out a couple minutes later in a light pink tank top, denim shorts, and sneakers. She went over to her bed, dropping her pajamas onto it, and pulled off the soft pink throw blanket on it. She folded it up then walked back over to the window.

"Hold this." She said, holding the blanket out to him.

"What's up?" Jason asked as he took the blanket from her.

"You'll see." Was all she said in reply as she hoisted herself back on to the window sill, then gracefully swung a leg out, placing her foot on the stretch of roof below her window. She swung her other leg out next, fully exiting her room via the window. She crouched down as she stood on the roof of her house.

"Give." She said as she held out her hands to Jason to take the blanket back.

"What are you doing?" Jason asked as he handed the blanket back to her.

"Follow me." Kim answered as she moved on to the roof beside her bedroom window. Jason reached over to the window sill, pulling himself up and into a crouching position similar to Kim's, following her as she unfolded the blanket and set it down on the roof.

"You know, it's going to get dirty." Jason teased as he moved over to the side of the roof she was on.

Kim shrugged. "That's what washing machines are for." She replied as she grinned back at Jason before sitting down on the blanket, pulling her knees up against her and patted the spot next to her on the blanket.

Jason rolled his eyes at her, smiling back as he moved over to the spot she patted and laid down on the blanket next to her with his arms behind his head. Kim scooted down a little on the blanket, then laid down as well, staring up at the clear night sky.

"Look…there's Sagittarius." Said Jason.

"Where?" asked Kim as she scanned the stars to find the constellation.

"Right there." Jason replied, pulling his right arm from behind his head and pointing up at a group of stars. "See…there are the three stars that make up the bow. Just like yours."

"Oh! I see it now." She said, locating the cluster of stars in the sky as Jason dropped his arm back down to behind his head, a comfortable silence settling between them.

"Do you remember when we used to do this as kids when our families went camping together?" Kim asked, breaking the silence between them.

He smiled at the memory. "Yeah, we would lay down a blanket in the flatbed of my dad's truck and just stare up at the sky until our parents would call us for dinner or go to bed."

Kim felt his body tremble as he started to laugh. "What's so funny?" she asked looking up at him.

"I just remembered when you would complain to your mom and dad about not wanting to sleep in a tent on the ground." Jason answered.

Kim giggled as she pictured the memory in her mind. "Oh gosh…I was such a brat back then."

"Yeah, maybe a little." Jason teased, making Kim sit up, her mouth opened in mock hurt.

"Jason Lee Scott, you be nice!" she said, slapping his stomach.

Jason flinched slightly at the light slap to his stomach as he laughed at her. "And you, Kimberly Ann Hart, need to stop being so violent towards me when I tease you."

Kim leaned back on one elbow, crinkling her nose as if she were considering the idea. Finally, she shook her head in disagreement. "Nope. Never going to happen."

"Yeah, that's what I figured." Jason replied, a smile stretched across his face.

Kim scooted closer to him as she began to lay back down. Jason dropped his left arm to his side for her to use as a pillow as she shifted to lie against him. "This is perfect."

Jason's eyes roamed over the sky, content with the moment they shared together. "This is perfect."

"We should do this more often." Said Kim.

"What? Insult each other?" Jason teased.

Kim rolled her eyes, giving him a light slap on his arm, making him chuckle. "No. I meant watching the stars."

"I'd be up for that." He replied. Eventually, his eyes landed on the moon, which was in a waxing gibbous. His mind went to his dream and his fight with Goldar, then to Rita.

"What do you think she's plotting up there?" Jason asked.

Though her eyes were still scanning the stars above them, Kim didn't need to look up know what Jason's eyes were now observing.

"Nothing good…for us, Angel Grove, or the world." Kim replied.

"Yeah…" Jason responded. "Whatever it is, we'll stop her."

"Totally." Kim said. She tilted her head up a bit to look at the moon, her thoughts following his about what Rita might be up to now. "It's terrible how something so beautiful is also housing something so rotten."

"I'm sure if the moon had a say in it, it would boot Rita back to wherever dark hole of the universe she came from." Jason replied.

"If only. I'd love to see that." She responded.

"Me too, but I should be heading back before my parents notice I'm gone and your mom realizes you're not in bed." Jason said as he moved to sit back up.

Kim pouted as she sat up, allowing Jason to get up as well. "I wish you could stay longer."

"Me too, but I'll be here tomorrow, and we both need to get some sleep if we're going to be clearing out your attic. It'll probably take all day to move stuff out and sort through everything." He said as he moved off the blanket for Kim to roll up and carefully made is way over back to the tree outside her bedroom window.

"I know, you're right." Kim said as she followed behind him. She waited until he lowered himself onto the branch below her window before she tossed the blanket back into her room and slipped inside.

"Hey, I promise, we'll do this again." Jason said as she turned to face him.

"Tomorrow night?" she asked.

"Yeah, sure thing." He answered giving her a smile. "Goodnight, Kim."

"Goodnight, Jase." She replied, then watched as he descended quickly and gracefully, down the tree just as he had climbed it. He jumped down to the ground when he was close enough, looking back up at her with a wink.

"Show off." She said just loud enough for him to hear, smiling down at him.

With a wave to her, Jason made his way through her backyard and silently over the fence that separated their yards from each other. She watched as he crossed his backyard, climbed the steps to the upper deck, and over to the door that led into his bedroom. He opened the door, then turned once more back in her direction. After a moment, he stepped inside, closing the door behind him.

"Goodnight, Jason." Kim said quietly to herself, then reached out to grab the latch of her window, pulling it shut.


Jason peered through slit in the curtains of his bedroom window, watching as Kim pulled her window close for the night. He turned towards his bed, toeing off his shoes then removed his jeans and shirt. He grabbed a pair of sweats off the back of the chair sat in front of the desk in his room, and pulled them on. He turned down his covers, crawled underneath them, and into bed.

"Goodnight, Kim." He said out loud in a low voice, then turned on to his side, closed his eyes and fell into the first peaceful sleep he'd had in weeks.