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Chapter Five

The next few weeks were rough on the young pink ranger, having to deal with not only the weakening of her body and the nightmares as she dealt with memories of Zedd, but on top of it all she was also in the middle of her training for the pan global gymnastics team. She wasn't all to keen on the thought of leaving Angel Grove to be on the team but there was no harm in entering the competition. Tommy on the other hand thought it was a horrible idea.

Her body was still adjusting as her powers weren't as strong as before, making her weak and tired all the time. Now she was training every spare moment she found time to sneak away to the youth center and practice. Today however, the final straw was awfully close to be drawn. At the end of a battle, she passed out in his arms from sheer exhaustion. At the moment he was driving her back to the youth center after he tried to talk her out of training and failed miserably. Her stubbornness rivalled his in some aspects, and this moment he hated that fact. All her wanted to do was protect her but instead he was just making her more inclined to go against his wishes and train. Driving in the jeep the trip was silent between the two of them, neither too willing to speak to one another. Finally as he pulled up to the front entrance he sighed and turned to her, "Are you sure you don't need me to stick around, spot you or something?"

"No it's not necessary..." she then turned to him more and smiled, "thank you though. That's very nice of you." She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek before pulling away, only for him to grab her and pulled her back to him, kissing her passionately. It was one of those kisses that had she been standing her knees would have buckled instantly. Instead she swooned against him, her body leaning into his welcomed embrace. Finally breaking the kiss she whispered his name and smiled gently, "Tommy..."

"You know I love you right...I know I'm..over bearing sometimes, ordering you and shit but I just..I want you safe Kim."

"I know Tommy," she let him hold her a while longer before she moved to exit the vehicle. "I'll call you the moment I'm home okay?" she waved goodbye and let him pull away as she entered the youth center.

Ernie was leaving soon but trusted her enough to lock up when she finished, so after the man headed out she proceeded to the beam and nervously set her gym bag down. There was a move she just couldn't seem to nail. Every time she went to do it her nerves got the best of her and she couldn't complete the spin, usually finding herself face first on the mat. "Come on Kim...you can do this." She told herself as she mounted the beam.

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Katherine sat at home seething in anger, trying to come up with something to get rid of Kimberly. She was still working along side Rita but that woman had no useful plans that could come into play. No, she would do this on her own. The first thing she needed to know was the location of the said pink ranger. Though it wasn't all that hard when you work with a space witch who could see them in a globe at any time of day. She simply contacted Rita and informed her of a plan to rid them of Kimberly, telling her it would weaken the power ranger permanently against attacks. With Rita on board Katherine headed to the youth center for some much needed revenge...

She arrived as Kimberly was practicing her routine on the beam, gracefully completing part of it but struggling with one move. She watched as the petite brunette worked her way into the spin and saw her ankle roll over, sending her flying off the beam and landing hard the mats. Her neck snapped back, the back of her skull smacking harshly to the floor before Kat watched her body tense and arch in pain, the young woman was not getting up. Anyone else would have screamed for help as the pink ranger fell into unconsciousness, but this...this was what she had been hoping for. Fate had done half the work for her. Reaching into her purse she pulled out a match and stuck it against the match box, watching the flame ignite. "Bye bye Kimmy...Tommy will get over you soon enough." She purred, sneaking through the door and tossing the match onto the mats near Kim but not the ones she was laying on. She fled the scene quickly and walked calmly home...

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Tommy had arrived home and been home for ten minutes before he thought about Kimberly and her training. She was so tired and weak from the power coin issues and her new routines, it wasn;t safe for her to be alone at the youth center this late at night. Jumping from his bed he raced to the jeep and hurried his drive back to the center, but on his way he saw a glowing light in the night sky. Panic hit him and he sped up, blowing a few stop signs in the process but he didn't care, he needed to find out what that glow was...and why he had a feeling Kimberly was in danger.

On scene his heart nearly exploded, the youth center was up in flames in the work out section, the fire mainly contained inside because the doors were shut, but as he ran by one of the window his fears came to life as his eyes settled on Kimberly passed out in the middle of the flames. "Jesus Christ!" he grabbed his morpher form his pocket, "White ranger power!" he morphed quickly and raced inside. The suit could only protect him so much but he knew he had to try. "Kimberly! Kimberly!" he shouted, hoping to wake her, but no answer came.

Tommy struggled to reach her, jumping over flaming equipment and dodging the falling roof tiles. The sprinkler system wasn't coming on for some god forsaken reason and Tommy sore he would have sued had be not liked Ernie so much. Finally reaching her side he went to move her but she groaned in pain, he'd have to be careful. "Come on Beautiful, we gotta get you out of here..." he needed to get her to a hospital and quick. Looking over his shoulder he saw his way out had been blocked by more fire and with that he tucked her close to his chest and warped from the scene, right outside and de-morphed in case someone saw him. "Come Kim, open those eyes, come on baby." He begged, reaching frantically to his back pocket to get his cell phone. Laying her on the ground, a safe distance from the flames he called 911, which was already on route from a call by neighbours of the center. "I need an ambulance, my girlfriend was trapped inside. No I got her out, I'm fine just please hurry up, she's hurt!"

"Tommy.."

"I'm right here kim.."

"My head..." she was starting to slip out again when he shut his phone and made her look at him, not letting her drift away.

"You have got to stay with me, do you understand? No sleeping,"

"But I'm so tired..."

"I know, just hold on a bit longer.."

The white ranger spent the next ten minutes panicking, wondering where in the hell they could possibly. He had contacted all the rangers to meet him at the hospital, with the exception of Jason and Trini who brought Tommy's parents to the scene in time to see Kimberly being loaded into the ambulance as Tommy was nearly breaking down. "Tommy dear!" his mother raced to her son and tried to calm him down.

"I need to go with her, I can't leave her mom..."

"We will take you to the hospital and meet her there, she's in good hands. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine...just a bit of tightness in my lungs but they checked me..." Tommy turned to firemen who were trying to put out the fire, "if I would have stayed...if I would have just.."

"Don't do that to yourself." Jason demanded, putting a firm hand on his shoulder. As Tommy's parents went to their own car and the rangers loaded up in Tommy's jeep Jason spoke again quietly, "there's no way this was an accident...we'll find out who did this. We'll meet up with the other at the hospital and the minute Kim is stable we have some investigating to do."

"I'm coming with you.."

"You need to be with Kim, we'll call you if anything comes up, you know that." Trini said, again being the voice of reason.

Jason ended up driving instead of Tommy, the other being shaken at the idea of his love hurting without him there to be with her. The nurse was walking out to the waiting room as Tommy came running in to stop her dead in her tracks. "Ms Hart, where is Ms Kimberly Hart?"

"Sir, I need to know your relation."

"I'm her boyfriend, she's living with my family. Her mother lives in france and the father isn't in the picture anymore." He spoke quickly but this was urgent. "Tommy Oliver."

"Tommy? She's been asking for you...right this way." She explained on the way that Kim was stable but her asthma had been bothered and she had fallen off the beam whilst practicing, giving her a concussion.

There she was, laying peacefully, clad in a hospital gown and her hair still up in a ponytail. Her eyes were tired, as was her smile but she was going to be ok. He ran to her side, covering her face with kisses and holding her hands in his until he finally kissed her lips passionately, though softly in fear of hurting her. "I love you..I love you...don't you ever...scare me..like that...again.." he kissed her again and finally pulled away, sitting on her bed as they held eachother tightly and cried to eachother. The thought of losing eachother was just too much.

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TBC