DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Power rangers or anything affiliated with the series. I do, however, own the characters of Melissa Blake and Chad McPherson.

"Good morning," Melissa said as a frazzled man walked into her office with his shirt misbuttoned and half-tucked in while fumbling to place his keys in his pocket, which seemed to not be properly straightened by the looks of things. She had never seen someone look this frazzled this early in the morning, but she could only imagine it was because he was already twenty minutes late. "I presume that you are the white Power Ranger? Or did I get the time wrong?"

"Yeah, sorry I'm late. The snooze button was too tempting to hit this morning. I haven't had a day off in awhile, so I thought I might be able to sleep in. My wife literally threw me out of bed once she realized I wasn't awake and that I was already supposed to be here," Tommy said without looking down at the state of his clothing.

Right now, he was just glad that he had clothes on, considering how quickly Kimberly had thrown him out of bed and then out of the house. He had had to pick up breakfast on his way and by some miracle, he had managed to not spill anything on himself, but he still was not very proud of his appearance, especially since he could feel the day old beard on his face.

"So, you must be Tommy," Melissa said with a smile as Tommy sat down and then glanced around the office rather nervously. He couldn't help but feel that Melissa was not the only one listening into what was being said, but he prayed that he was wrong this time. He knew that he was likely to say some things that no one needed to know about, but he was going to try to be as good as he could be. He knew that he didn't need any trouble with the police after what had happened to Trini. Jason needed a little bit of sanity that he could still turn to and it seemed that he and Zack were the only ones that were still slightly sane and he doubted that would last much longer. "Okay. I'm sure you know this has to be recorded for the police department's records. Let us begin."

BEGIN Tape: KX104PR

"Would you please state, for the record, your name, ranger color and marital status?" Melissa asked as Tommy looked down at his shirt and sighed. He then unbuttoned his shirt and quickly rebuttoned it correctly. He knew something didn't feel right, but he hadn't looked down until then to be able to figure it out.

"Thomas Oliver, green and white Power Ranger, married to the original pink ranger," Tommy said sparing a glance over at Melissa, who was slightly shocked by his actions. He seemed to have forgotten to put on an undershirt today as well, which didn't surprise her because of the state of his clothes but she was slightly surprised by his body. She had always thought the rangers would be muscular, but ripped had not come to mind until now.

"Other family?" Melissa asked, tentatively, as Tommy gave her a smile.

"My adoptive parents and my blood brother are still alive. Other than that it's just me and my wife, we like it that way. We like having our peace," Tommy said as Melissa nodded.

"How long did you serve as a Power Ranger?" Melissa asked as Tommy looked up at the ceiling, trying to calculate it correctly. It was really quite confusing to figure out, but he was sure that she wouldn't understand that sort of thing. He'd have to explain why it was confusing and that would mean revealing two other ranger colors and he didn't want to do that. He wanted to keep half of his ranger history fairly secret if he could somehow manage it.

"Four years, four different teams before I retired the first time. I've had to come back for some little things every now and then and I've just finished a year as a Dino ranger, hopefully that'll be my last time out," Tommy said with a sad look clouding his eyes before he shook himself out of the trance. He didn't like to think about never being a ranger again, but he knew that it was for the best. This last time had had so many things that had been too close for comfort.

"You mentioned that you were the green and white Power Ranger," Melissa said as Tommy gritted his teeth. How could he explain this to her? All the people he ever talked to about it were rangers and they understood that sometimes you had to change powers, colors, or both. "How is it possible for you to have two ranger colors?"

"As the green ranger, my powers were destroyed by Rita Repulsa. I had to leave the team then. I couldn't help them without any powers and I left Angel Grove for a little while so I could get my head together and be able to come back and be around them without being a ranger. But I was called back when the white Power Ranger was created and I became team leader. I guess you can say that I am not an original, but it's obviously close enough to count. That's why I'm here," Tommy said, seriously, as he squirmed in his chair. Kim had told him that he was not going to like talking about all this stuff, now he saw exactly how right she was. He didn't know what they were going to use this information for and he didn't like to think about the possibility that they might use it against them.

"Are you surprised that you have finally been found by the police department of Angel Grove?" Melissa asked, as Tommy shook his head no.

As much as he had not wanted this day to come, he had had the feeling that it was going to come for awhile now. There was just too much information out there for someone not to sit down and figure it all out one day. He had just hoped it would be several years from now when he could no longer do karate and could use that as an excuse to say that he had never been a ranger in the first place. Right now, it didn't help that he owned a dojo, had recently moved back to Angel Grove from Reefside and that he had left Reefside because his house was blown up by Mesogogg. The evidence against him was just a little bit overwhelming, to say the absolute least about it.

"Someone was bound to get lucky and have it all click together one day. I just wish that they understood what they are doing to us by making us go through this process. Because this really isn't counseling, this is investigating by using a therapist. They say they want to help us, but they are hurting us more than ever," Tommy said, as he had been awoken last night by his terrified wife.

Kim hadn't had bad dreams since they had finished their brief stint back in the ranger world, but now they were suddenly back and striking with a new vengeance. The fear of them being revealed had always been high on all their lists, but it was much worse for Kim. She worried about him being revealed because he had been involved so much more than the rest of them and they would be able to viably link him back to some of the evil rangers. Neither of them needed that sort of thing hanging over their head right now, while they were trying to start over in a new-old town.

"I agree with you completely, but what has it done to you?" Melissa asked as Tommy unclamped his hands from the arms of the chair and tried to force himself to relax. He had to do this; he might as well be as comfortable as possible while he did it.

"We're all paranoid again. Some of us are having horrible nightmares, others are tortured about whether or not they should say anything in these sessions because of what the police might do with it, and some of us are worried that what we say will not be used in the right way. We're worried that it won't be used to help with Trini's case, it'll just help them know where they were right and wrong about the rangers. It's not pretty to live in fear that any morning you might wake up to your picture on the television screen and a caption below it stating that you are a Power Ranger. You try living with that type of pressure hanging over your head. See what it does to you," Tommy said with an ounce of threatening coming through in his voice.

Unlike the other rangers, he had never been fond of police involvement of any kind, as they had been after him a few times when he was evil, not that they would really believe that. He didn't think it wise to say that he had been evil or there would probably be some repercussions and Kim couldn't take that right now. She had just lost her best friend and he could only imagine what would happen if he was arrested because of the damage that he had done while he was evil.

"So, do you wish that the police would just leave you alone?" Melissa asked as Tommy stood up and walked over to the couch. He was going to need to lie down if he was going to get through all this.

"I'd like it if they would properly investigate Trini's murder. She didn't die from the crash, and anyone with half a brain can understand that from the autopsy report. It seems that they want us to do all the work for them and we can't. We don't know enough about what really happened to be able to help them that much," Tommy said as Melissa nodded.

She had gone to the police department and taken a glance at it herself and she couldn't agree with the rangers more whole-heartedly. This was not an accident investigation; this was a murder investigation and it was time that the police started treating it that way. The rangers had done a lot for this city and they were being repaid by having to search through their brains to see if they could remember one little thing that might lead to who had killed one of their own.

"You seem to be very accusing of the police officers' work, Mr. Oliver," Melissa said as Tommy laughed. Accusing was the nice way to put, he was down right pissed off at the job that they had done and whenever Jason got his common sense back about him, he would probably join in as well. He just knew that Jason would be worse though. He had just lost his wife and that was not something that he wanted to have mentioned to anyone.

"I know, Kim told me to not come in and act like myself when I'm irritated. We don't want for them to 'accidentally' reveal our identities to the entire world, but we have to be honest in order to help them any. Trini can't have died in vain," Tommy said as Melissa nodded.

"About Trini, was there anything odd that happened in the days before her death?" Melissa asked as Tommy placed his hands over his face and tried to recall the events of those days. Why did she have to ask him this question? He had the worst memory of everyone in the group, but she didn't know that about him.

"Nothing really out of the ordinary. She had to work more that week, but it was expected because her and Jason were going on vacation the next week. She always had to work more when something like that was coming up. She couldn't afford to get behind," Tommy said with a sigh. This was really the reason that it had been so hard on Jason. They all knew he would take her death hard, but if it had been at a different time, he might have been able to pull himself together faster. "It was their one year anniversary. It took the two of them forever to tie the knot."

"Why so long?" Melissa asked as Tommy shook his head. He didn't see how this would be important to the investigation, but anything that came up needed to be explained.

"It's because Jason didn't think he could stand to live on the East Coast. He tried and came back within a month; it just didn't fit his lifestyle. Trini put in job applications up and down the West Coast and finally got a job in…oh where was it? I can't remember where exactly, but it was close to Angel Grove, so she moved back out here. They finally felt that they could get married and they did. Jason hasn't been back into work since she died. He's taking sometime to heal, not that I blame him. His life's just been turned upside down again," Tommy said raking his hands through his hair.

"So, after their marriage everything was normal?" Melissa asked as Tommy slowly sat up and looked over at her with a penetrating gaze.

"Yeah, from what we could tell, but why don't you save all of these questions for Jason. He's the one that knows the best answers to them and trust me he'll be honest. He wants the bastard that did this to pay," Tommy said, with a no nonsense look present in his eyes.

"What was your relationship with Trini like?" Melissa asked, jumping off the questions that he had brought to mind for her to ask. It seemed with each new ranger that visited that she had more and more questions that only Jason would be able to answer and she just didn't know how much he would allow to be pulled out of him.

"She was my best friend's wife and my wife's best friend. I saw her almost everyday, either at the dojo or at my home. They would eat at our house a few times a week. Trini and Jason's jobs don't let them have a chance to make supper most nights. Kim teaches gymnastics at the high school, so it worked out that she could cook for all of us. Trini helped us a lot last year. When we lost our baby, she came and stayed with us for a couple of weeks. I don't know what we would have done without her there," Tommy said, as he brought the painful memories back to life.

"So most people liked her?" Melissa asked as Tommy nodded his head yes. He actually couldn't think of anyone that Trini knew that honestly hated her, except the monsters that they had fought all those years ago and that didn't really count. They were evil, they weren't supposed to like the rangers and it didn't really bother any of them that the monsters hated them.

"If any of us had a problem, we went to her, unless it involved a monster. We called Billy in to help us with that one," Tommy said with a laugh. He was sure that Billy would love to hear that description of him, but it happened to be a truthful one.

PAUSE Tape: KX104PR

REPORT KX104PRa

Evidence is found that said tape, KX104PR, was paused for an unknown amount of time by Doctor of Psychology, Melissa Blake. Neither Ms. Blake nor Dr. Oliver are present to confirm or deny this allegation. Speculation as to what this information might be is varied, but is to no benefit as neither Ms. Blake nor Dr. Oliver will comment on this section of speech when questioned on its contents.

Deputy Chad McPherson, Angel Grove Police Department

END REPORT KX104PRa

"Here you go," Melissa said handing over a manila envelope and Tommy looked down at it with a great deal of disdain. He didn't want to see what Trini had left him. He had a class to teach with Jason tonight and he was not sure that he could fool him, but would Jason even show tonight? If he did then that would mean he was really starting to heal, but Tommy doubted he would be back so soon.

"They don't have everything on me," Tommy said with a laugh as Melissa looked over at him. He was the first to laugh at the police department's job of gathering information on them.

"What do you mean?" Melissa asked as Tommy held out the papers and looked at them again. He was sure that if they had all his information that it would be in a box. It seemed to him that they only knew that he was the white ranger and nothing else.

"They only know that I was the white ranger. Thank goodness I didn't reveal my two other colors. Then they would have had a reason to try to find the other rangers that I have worked with," Tommy said, as Melissa stared at him in astonishment.

"I don't even want to know the story of how you have four different colors," Melissa said as Tommy could only nod his head.

"You don't really want to know, it's rather boring to tell you the truth," Tommy said as Melissa smiled as Tommy continued to sift through the papers, looking for Trini's letter.

Tommy,

I know that you are probably worried sick about Jason and Kimberly right now, but they will be fine, trust me. Listen you need to tell them about you being evil. Your past is much more important than the now for you. If you explain a lot of what you went through, you may be able to save us.

I'm sure that Zack and Kim have shared everything they have with you and I know that I gave Zack a stern warning. You are the ranger that they are the most after, but as you can see they have missed several things about you. You probably won't get to read this until after they talk to you, but don't reveal more than you need to. I don't think that Kim or Jason could stand to lose you as well. They know that there is a chance that the rangers won't help them any, but by helping them, you may be able to get the information for yourselves without resorting to suiting up and breaking in. I don't want for ya'll to have to do that.

You know exactly how important it is for us to remain hidden. They probably still have a good bit of surveillance on you right now, so I don't know if you would be able to get up to the Command Center without being followed. Don't risk it unless you think it is well worth it, Tommy. You and Billy need to contact Aquitar and have them on stand-by in case we are revealed to the world. I am afraid that the only thing you can do is leave Earth, then. Please do be careful, Tommy.

Love,

Trini

"She wants me to reveal that I was evil," Tommy muttered as he reread the letter and then looked over at Melissa who merely shrugged her shoulders. "That's a hell of a place to start and it's the one place that I didn't want to go."

"Well, if she suggests it, I guess you should try it," Melissa said as Tommy nodded and Melissa flicked back on the tape recorder.

RECORD PRESSED Tape: KX104PR

"What sort of problems existed with the rangers?" Melissa asked as Tommy gave her a look and then tried to think of how would be the best way to respond.

"A little bit of everything happened with the rangers. We were mentally bashed and physically injured so many times and yet we were always expected to be good boys and girls and fight the long, hard fight," Tommy said as Melissa nodded.

"The green ranger began as an evil ranger. Is there any explanation for that?" Melissa asked as Tommy nodded his head yes. There was an explanation, but it was not something that he really wanted to reveal.

"When I first moved to Angel Grove, I was captured by Rita Repulsa and she held the green power coin, which she had turned evil. She gave it to me and I became the green ranger. I started on the wrong side of the tracks. I fought the rangers many times; I almost killed Jason and Kim a couple of times as well. They finally broke the spell that was over me and I came to the rangers' side. Being evil is something I will always regret, there was nothing I could do to stop it, but I still think that maybe if I had done certain things it wouldn't have happened to me. It's just part of my ranger history now. The others don't much care about it anymore," Tommy said as Melissa just nodded. The police were definitely getting more out of this ranger than the others, but the information was not leading them towards capturing who did this to Trini.

"Is that the only time you were evil?" Melissa asked, as Tommy shook his head no.

"On my third ranger team I got turned evil again. It's not fun to be an evil minions little play toy," Tommy said as he could remember that time just as well as the first.

"Have any of the other rangers been evil?" Melissa asked as Tommy looked down at the ground.

"Jason and Kim were, once, but it's not really that important. The only people that they hurt were other rangers and they came around quickly enough," Tommy said as Melissa nodded and he let out a long sigh.

"Do you have any idea as to who might have done this to Trini?" Melissa asked as Tommy shook his head.

"I've tried to figure out who might still be after us. The situation just does not fit what most evil creatures will do. If they had wanted to kill her, they would have landed in her home and taken out her and Jason. I think there is a lot more to the story than what the police are willing to tell us. They know something, but they just need proof of it. I don't know that we have the proof. I don't know that we can help them, unless they tell us what they are looking for," Tommy said, as he sat up. He was really done with what he had to say to her about this and although he had made a small dent, he knew that he couldn't let much more out about himself. "Concluding Dr. Thomas Oliver, White Power Ranger."

END Tape: KX104PR

AN: I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter and let me know what you think about. Toodles!