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Chapter 4
It had been two months since anything had happened. He had avoided contact with almost anybody, except Eric, who of course gave him updates on the Silver Guardians. It was odd, even if he had only met that girl once, everyday since then he had not stop thinking about her. Cathy, no Jen. He had to forget her, he had already been in love with a girl that looked exactly like her so why go and fall for the same face, which would remind him everyday of his long, lost love.
But.
The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to know why she was to be so important in his life. And why did Jen came up less and less in his thoughts and instead he found himself thinking about Cathy. Even if they looked a lot a like Cathy's hair was straight and she wore no bangs. Jen's hair was a mass of untamed curls. The more he thought about the attraction he was beginning to feel towards Cathy the more he wanted to forget that fateful face.
I'm gonna forget, there's something I have to do, I'll keep running and there's no way anyone or even my destiny will catch me where I'm going. He thought. His plans were set he was to move without informing anyone and would leaver her behind even if it meant not to see her again.
Newtech City, California.
Wes's new home, a place where he would finally be at peace and maybe just get on with his life and not think about the past.
Immediately he had to look for a place to work, the only person who knew he had come live here was his father and he had already landed him an interview with the commander of the new SPD Academy.
He had to settle into his new apartment building, which for him was weird, he was so used to being alone in a big building all by himself. Now there were neighbors and the noise was more louder than it had been before. He would have to get used to it.
The next day when he had his interview he left the house two whole hours early just so he wouldn't get lost and be late. Fortunately for him, the SPD Academy building was massive and he could spot it from anywhere in the city.
Wes began to walk towards his car, but as soon as he took out his keys, something happened. Everywhere there was smoke and there were lasers shooting from every direction.
There were more people in the parking lot than he expected, so he didn't even try to morph, instead he avoided as much fire as he possibly could.
He ran towards the direction the lasers were being shot, but something happened, his world went blank and the last he saw was her, Jen running towards him.
"es……….Wes……………..Wes…………….Wes!………………Wes! WES!"
"Hello, hello?! Who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me?"
"No, huh?"
"Stop running, Wes."
"What? Who are you?"
"You can't change your destiny."
" Stop telling me what to do, and tell me who you are."
"I'm here, that's all that matters, you don't need to know who I am."
"If you're here, how come I can't see you?"
"Oh but you can, don't you see……….."
When he awoke, he felt a sharp pain in his back and cried out.
"Relax, you have to rest, you were taken down pretty badly."
"Who are you?" He said looking up at a face he did not recognize.
"I'm Dr Kat Manx, you're at SPD medical bay."
"SPD, I had an interview there today."
"Well, I guess it's a good thing they found you then. What were you trying to do get yourself killed?"
"No, I'm a rang……. I mean I was just trying to help."
"Its ok, I know who you are. You're Wesley Collins, Time Force Red Ranger. I guess I would have to know a lot about you, I mean after all we did a lot of research here on you."
"Huh? How do you know I'm a ranger?"
"Let's just say we here in SPD have the technology to know all about rangers, past, present and soon future. Are you feeling any better."
"I'm ok, I just need to get up and walk around some."
"Ok, I guess you can tell me about what you saw then."
"Well, I didn't see much, just a bunch of lasers shooting everywhere from one direction, I was gonna morph, but unfortunately there were too many civilians. I tried running towards where the shots were being fired, but then I think I got hit…and then I saw her….."
"You saw someone, what do you mean?"
"Jen, one of the other Time Force Rangers, she was even wearing the uniform."
"What do you mean, I thought all the other Time Force rangers were from the future and were not allowed to return." Kat said looking oddly at him.
"I know who I saw and I saw her, unless I'm mistaken and I saw, her, but it couldn't be she's in Silver Hills and this girl was definitely wearing some sort of uniform."
"I think you might've hit your head in the ground harder than we thought, I'm gonna get the medics to take a good look at you again, for right now, you need to go to sleep."
"No, I don't want to go to sleep, I need to know if it was Jen."
"Wes, calm down. Medics."
As he tried to get up, he saw two other medics come in. The last one took his breath away it was her again. His eyes met hers and for the first time in a long time he was relaxed, the drugs were working way too quickly for him and he didn't even get a chance to talk to her. As he drifted off, his eyes were glued to hers and then again he slept.
"Wes! WES!"
"Jen? Is that you?"
"Yes Wes, I'm sorry………….."
"Why Jen? Why?"
"Wes I can't explain it all, but without Cathy there can never be you and me."
"Huh?"
"Wes, just follow it, don't fight it. You're destiny will always come and get you, it did me, I couldn't fight it and neither can you. Accept it and then, you'll see why we're not meant for each other."
"Hello, Mr. Collins, how are you today?" The cheery voice asked him as he woke and lifted his head off the pillow.
"I'm fine thank you. As long as you people don't keep drugging me up here, all be alright."
"So, sorry sir but you're outburst yesterday made the medics have to give you sedative, as long as you're calm there won't be no need for that. After all you just need to relax and get better."
The nurse walked away after putting the tray of breakfast in front of him, he tried to get up, but he was too weak, his muscles felt stiff and his back again like yesterday felt horrible.
"Oh, wait sir," another said as she rushed towards him, "I'll help you."
It was her. Not Jen. Cathy. His head rushed at a hundred miles an hour and then, he felt her touch. She was warm and as soon as she was close enough he could smell her sweet scent.
"Here we go," she said pressing a few buttons to lift him up and then fixed his pillows.
"You're here?"
"I'm sorry. What did you say?"
"You don't remember me, don't you?"
"Uhmm, I can't place you.."
"About a few months ago, I saved your son from getting run over."
"Oh, is that you?" She stepped back and gave him a good look, smiled and than took a seat next to his bed. "I knew I recognized you from somewhere."
"Its hard to forget someone as beautiful as you." He said, immediately noticing his mistake and looking the other way.
"Oh, uhmm…" She quickly got up and looked around the room. The two other patients there with him were pretty much snoring the afternoon away and she went to each and checked their status.
"I'm Catherine Tate, one of the medics here at SPD Academy."
"Oh yeah Cathy, right?" He nodded along pretending he barely found out her name.
"I've been working here for the last five years. My husband and I were induced at the same time, later on we got married and had Sky."
"Oh," he said taking a deep breath and feeling a sharp pain in his heart, "you're married?"
"Yeah, well uhmm.. My husband died about two months ago, that's probably why I can place you, he died that same day you saved my son's life."
"He… I'm so sorry. I don't know what to say." For a stranger she had open up to him quite quickly.
"Oh, I 'm sorry I shouldn't even be telling you this."
"Its ok. I'm a great listener. Sometimes it help to open up to strangers."
"That's what's wrong, you don't feel like a stranger. I guess the only reason why I want to tell you so much is probably because I know about you."
"What do you mean you know about me?"
"SPD has done some research on Time Force since the day they discovered time travel. When they found out there are other organizations out there in charge of time travel they decided to start their own ranger team much like Time Force. The first set of ranger suits were even made to match the ones the Time Force rangers wore. My husband wore the red suit and I know now who you are and if I'm not mistaken you're the red Time Force ranger. Aren't you?"
"Yes." he said looking at her and taking everything in.
