Author's note: Sorry for the overdue wait on this chapter. First a bad disk and then an illness prevented me from getting this chapter done. So thanks for being patient with me. Now for the chapter you've all been waiting for. Once again, my apologies for the wait.
HarryPassionFan: Being a Cupid makes Coop a big fan of true love so that's why he doesn't want to see Nikki give up just yet on her marriage. Here ya go; Tommy's finally going to tell Nikki about his past.
BellaCordelia: Well said, it is time for them both to come clean about things.
Mark 61: Thanks a lot; I'm always happy when a chapter accomplishes what I need it to for the story to go on.
PrettyDiva: I'm hurrying as fast as I can for ya girl. LOL Thanks for the compliment on my writing. Yeah, always have to have at least one bad guy.
Romilly: Coop's a cupid so he can only look at what kind of heart Tommy has not what's been done to him. So that's why he didn't detect Rita's spell. Tommy's fighting skills won't matter much to Drake because he's a demon and it'd only take one fireball for him to kill Tommy. Jason just seemed like the perfect person to talk some sense into Tommy. I'm not including Mystic Force into this simply because I have never seen it and don't know much about it.
Slytherin-Angel44: Here's the face to face, I hope it lives up to your expectations.
Mrs.DeSantos: Thanks for taking your friend's advice and reading my story. I'm glad you like it.
GinaStar: Thanks, one of my biggest worries about this story is that I wouldn't do Charmed the justice it deserves so I'm glad to know that I'm doing well so far.
ThePink1atReefside: Yeah, Coop's reading of Tommy was done off camera so to speak. I just didn't know how to incorporate it into the story so I just had Coop appear to Nikki after the fact.
"Nikki, I'm ready to talk now," Tommy said as he called out in a loud voice to his wife.
"Does that really work?" Jason questioned.
"We're about to find out," Tommy replied. Minutes later, a flash of tiny blue lights appeared in the room and were soon revealed in the form of Nikki.
"Wow," Jason said after she appeared.
"Oops, guess I should have sensed whether or not you were alone first," Nikki remarked as she thought quickly of how to explain her appearance to the man who was in the room with Tommy.
"It's ok, he knows," Tommy told her.
"Knows what?" Nikki asked cautiously.
"That whole you being a witch thing," Jason said.
"I know I wasn't supposed to tell him but I really needed someone to talk to," Tommy said seeing the look of surprise on her face.
"I'm Jason Scott, an old friend of Tommy's," Jason said as he extended his hand out to her.
"Nikki Mitchell, um Oliver, but I guess you already know that," she said as she shook his hand.
"Don't worry your secret is safe with me," Jason told her.
"It better be because if not you could put your loved ones in danger," she replied.
"I've already explained that to Jason, he's my best friend, we can trust him," Tommy said.
"I'm really glad you called me, there's something I need to explain to you," Nikki said as she turned to face Tommy.
"Why don't I give you two some privacy," Jason said as he started to leave the room.
"Jason wait, you don't have to leave, its better if Tommy and I are the ones to go, the longer I'm around the more at risk you are," Nikki informed him.
"I guess she's right, tell Kim and Ella goodbye for me, don't let Kim get too upset with me for leaving without saying goodbye," Tommy told Jason.
"I won't, take care of yourself bro," Jason said as he gave Tommy a hug.
"Brace yourself, this is going to feel a little weird," Nikki said as she held out her hand to Tommy. Once he had taken hold of her hand she orbed the two of them out of there.
"You weren't kidding about that feeling weird," Tommy said once he and Nikki materialized into his living room.
"Yeah I know but you'll get used to it and sooner or later you won't even feel it anymore," Nikki said
"Nikki, there's something I need to tell you," Tommy said as he took a seat on the couch and motioned for her to sit down.
"I know you must have a lot of things to say to me but something's happened that I think you should know," Nikki replied.
"That may be so but there's something I owe you and it can't wait," Tommy told her.
"Tommy, you don't owe me anything, I mean we wouldn't even be in this mess if I had just told you the truth from the beginning," Nikki said.
"I owe you an apology, I'm sorry for running out on you, I should have tackled the problem head on instead of hiding behind my fears," Tommy told her.
"Well you have to admit I dropped a pretty big bomb on you so who can blame you for wanting to get as far away from me as possible," Nikki replied.
"Even so, it's still no excuse for the way I reacted especially since I know what it's like to have to keep a secret, in fact I've kept one for years from my parents and even now they still don't have a clue," Tommy said.
"What kind of secret could you possibly have?" Nikki inquired.
"Remember when I told you I was from Angel Grove and you remarked that you'd heard about the power rangers," Tommy said.
"Yeah so what, you're going to tell me that you were a power ranger," Nikki joked.
"Yeah I was, all through high school, in fact it wasn't that long ago that I led another team of rangers right here in Reefside," Tommy told her.
"You're serious about this aren't you?" Nikki questioned.
"Come on I want to show you something," Tommy said as he walked over to a T-Rex model and touched the jaw which opened a secret passageway in the wall.
"What is this place?" Nikki asked after she had followed Tommy downstairs into the lab.
"Two years ago, it was the headquarters for the Dino Rangers until it was destroyed, now it's just an ordinary lab where Hayley and I still do experiments," he said as he sat down a the computer and typed something in.
"This is amazing," Nikki said as she watched as a video of Tommy and the other Dino Rangers came on the screen.
"I have the entire history of every power rangers team on here, I've sort of made it my duty to keep up the legend of the power for future generations," Tommy revealed.
"So how did you get to become a power ranger?" Nikki asked.
"I'm glad you asked, it actually has a lot to do with why I reacted so strongly to your being a witch," Tommy said.
"How so?" she questioned.
"When I first moved to Angel Grove, I was attacked by these creatures known as putties, they were working for an evil witch named Rita whose sole purpose was to destroy the rangers who at the time were being led by Jason," Tommy began.
"Jason as in the Jason I just met?" she asked.
"Yes, Jason and four others, all my friends, his wife included were the original power rangers, when I showed up, Rita decided it was time she had a ranger of her own and she used her magic wand to put a spell on me turning me into her evil green ranger," Tommy informed her.
"You were an evil ranger," Nikki spoke.
"Yes, under Rita's spell I began to terrorize the rangers along with the city, I did a lot of terrible things back then, things that I don't like to remember to this day," Tommy said.
"But Tommy if you were under a spell none of the things you did were your fault," Nikki told him.
"I know that now but it's taken me a long time to get over it, I was just lucky to have a friend like Jason who stuck by me and helped me to break Rita's spell," Tommy replied.
"So that's why you reacted the way you did when you learned that I was a witch," Nikki said.
"Yeah, as you can see my first experience with a witch wasn't a good one, and I have been determined ever since to never let anyone take advantage of me the way that Rita did," Tommy said.
"I'm so sorry, I can't imagine what that must have been like for you," Nikki said.
"After I broke Rita's spell, the other rangers invited me to be a part of the team and I did everything I could to prove that I was worthy of that honor, the green ranger powers didn't last long but Zordon who was our mentor created the white ranger powers which I assumed and then took leadership of the team, after that we got new powers and I became the red ranger which I kept until after high school then we passed on the powers and I went to college and then eventually ended up here in Reefside," Tommy explained.
"And you never told anyone besides the other rangers I mean," Nikki said.
"It was one of the rules, no one was to ever know our secret, though there have been a few non-rangers to learn our identities, my brother David knows and so does Hayley since she helped me to create the Dino Ranger technology," Tommy replied.
"So can you understand now why I didn't tell you my secret at first, I mean people might not react so badly to finding out that you were a Power Ranger because you were doing it to save your city but people might not be so nice if they found out that there were witches living among them, it could spark another Salem Witch trial hunt or something and then my entire family could be wiped out, so I couldn't just announce my secret to you, of course I should have thought about that before marrying you," Nikki told him.
"I understand why you couldn't tell me but why marry me if you knew that eventually your secret would have to come out," Tommy said.
"I just wanted a chance you know, just a glimpse of what it was like to be normal for once, to fall in love with a guy and do something crazy like get married but I know now that it wasn't fair of me, because I'm not normal, I'll never be normal, so if you want out of this I'm sure we could get an annulment and then it'll be like this marriage never happened," Nikki told him.
"So you just want to end things just like that?" Tommy questioned.
"No, that's not what I want, I love you and I want to be your wife but if you can't accept me for what I am then what's the point of going any further," Nikki replied.
"I want to accept it, whatever problems I had in the past are just that their in the past, I love you and I still want a future with you," Tommy told her.
"Do you really mean that?" Nikki said as tears streamed down her face.
"Yeah, I do, it may take a little getting used to being married to a witch but I think I can handle it," Tommy said as leaned over and kissed her.
"I guess Uncle Coop was right," Nikki said with a smile.
"What?" Tommy asked.
"I'll explain later but right now there's something else you need to know," Nikki said as she pulled away from him.
"Whatever it is just tell me, I can take it," Tommy told her.
"Tommy before I met you I was involved with someone, actually I was sort of engaged to him but I broke it off with him a year ago, his name was Drake," Nikki revealed.
"Ok, so you were engaged before, that's not so bad," Tommy commented.
"Well, it gets worse, he's not a mortal like you but he's not a witch like me either though at the time I thought he was, it turned out that Drake was a demon who was using me to get to my family, he had this huge elaborate plan to get rid of me and then to take out my family one by one, I eventually figured it out and when I confronted him, he tried to kill me, luckily my cousin Wyatt came along but Drake managed to escape before we could vanquish him, I eventually moved on with my life and I never thought I would ever see him again," Nikki informed him.
"So you're saying that this demon ex-fiancé of yours is back?" Tommy questioned.
"Yes, he came to me a few days ago and he's apparently a lot stronger than he was a year ago and I'm afraid he could come after us, he doesn't know that I'm married yet but it won't be long before he figures it out and when he does all hell could break loose," Nikki revealed.
"I'm not afraid if that's what you think, I still have Zeo powers and I could take care of myself if Drake does decide to show up," Tommy told her.
"It's not that simple, your ranger powers might not be strong enough to resist his powers and he could kill you before you even had a chance to use them," Nikki informed him.
"Well what can we do?" Tommy asked.
"I think the safest place would be with my family, now that he's revealed himself to me, he knows that I've alerted my family to his presence so he won't show up at the house again, my parents have offered to let us stay with them," Nikki replied.
"They probably hate me don't they, I mean for the way I reacted to you being a witch," Tommy said.
"Actually, your reaction isn't all that different to my father's when my mother first told him that she was a witch so I think you'll fit in just fine," Nikki told him.
"But we don't need to rush there right away do we, I mean you said that Drake doesn't even know about me yet so there's no reason that we can't just stay here," Tommy replied.
"I guess it would be ok if we waited a few days," Nikki said.
"Good because I believe I still owe you a honeymoon," Tommy told her.
"You're right, I believe you do," she said with a smile.