Trini looked around her home, trying to bring herself to do what was needed. She had called into work that morning, supposedly sick, but that was not the real reason for her absence. Her left arm was all but useless as the pain continued to come and go and she now had a very limited range of motion. Billy had said that there was the possibility that her arm would react this way, but she had hoped he would be wrong. She was going to need her body to be in top condition before she confronted Jason again.
The last night had taken so much out of her, as she had never seen him be so angry and so purposefully hateful towards her. It was as if she had purposefully broken his heart, but they had never even dated. They were friends throughout high school and the Peace Conference. Nothing had changed between them, they both knew it, so why was it that he was centering all of this on a love that had never been?
Sure there had been times when she had thought about the two of them being together, but this was the first time that Jason had even made an inkling that he liked her. He was evil, but she knew that a lot of times evil brought out repressed emotions and problems that the rangers had believed to be long gone. Kimberly turning on Tommy was something that could almost be expected when she was evil, but Jason's reaction to her was something that she had never thought she would see. She had always been able to reach him before, but now she could not do it this time. He was held further away from her than he had ever been before and somehow she had caused that.
She knew that she needed to do some soul searching in order to be able to try to reach Jason. The next time she went in there, she had to be willing to bare her soul and hope that he would react to that. But what was in her soul and why would he hold such a deep connection to it? Again she pondered their relationship, which had never been more than friendship. Why would he react like this to her and why would Tommy call her in? What made him think that she would be able to make a difference in all of this?
That was where she was fooling herself and she knew it. Jason had meant much more to her than just a mere friend, but she had never said anything to him. She had feared that he would not see her in that light, that she would always be second string to someone like Emily or even Kimberly. If she had only said something they would not be here now, but she hadn't and now she had to figure a way to get them out of this. The problem was she did not want to tell him what she felt for him. She was scared that if she ever did that, she would lose Jason…in every way and she could not stand that idea.
"What do you think that she's going to do?" Billy asked as Tommy looked over at him and shrugged his shoulders. He had been on the ropes about how well Trini was going to take all of this and at this point she had taken it as he expected. She was trying to regroup, but he knew this was going to be hard for her. At least he and Kimberly had been open at one time about how they felt, the fact that they weren't now didn't matter. It was easier for him to lay himself out there since he had already lost her once before. He just didn't really like the idea of bringing her back just to lose her again.
"She's going to do some thinking and then come back out here and help us all that she can. It's all that we can expect from her…she's got it rough Billy. Jason hadn't even given her a clue that he was evil until yesterday," Tommy said as Billy just shook his head. He hated hearing those words and knowing that it spelled out disaster for Trini.
"I don't like this Tommy," Billy said as Tommy looked over at him.
"I don't either, but I can't imagine losing the both of them to some evil bastard, so we've got to try this and just see what happens, hopefully it'll get better and she'll be able to reach him soon," Tommy said as Billy nodded. They had both seen this too many times before and knew exactly how long the road was ahead of them.
"But you now have to focus on Kimberly. If one of them comes around without the other, we know they're not coming back. We've both seen it too many times with Kimberly," Billy said as Tommy sighed.
"I've done everything that I can Billy," Tommy said as Billy glared at him. He could not be serious in thinking that he would buy that crap.
"I'm going to give you the same advice I gave her. You need to tell Kim that you love her, because flirting around that is not helping you any Tommy," Billy said as Tommy just shook his head and walked towards the exit. He did not want to face that, but he knew that he could do it. He had said it to her before and he was more than willing to say it to her again. He just wanted it to be at the right time, when they actually cared for each other again, not when they were fighting to bring them back to the good side.
"Do you think that they'll actually manage it?" Conner asked as Billy looked over at the young ranger and just shrugged his shoulders. He had no clue, but if anyone could do it, it would be Tommy and Trini.
"Go home and get a good night of sleep, Tommy and Trini will try again tomorrow and the next day and the next, until they come back to them or this character let's go of all of this," Billy said as Kira looked up at Conner and he just shook his head. This was not the type of news they wanted to hear. They had thought that it would be a quick fix, but it obviously was not going to be that way. They were going to have to wait for the results this time.