"Trini…wake up sweetie…" Jason whispered as he gently shook her shoulder and she jerked awake.
"What are you doing here? What do you want?" Trini said jumping away from him and he stared at her in shock. She had never acted like this before, so he was wondering what he had done, which was part of the reason he was here. He couldn't remember much of anything lately and he was hoping that she could explain it. He didn't trust anyone else to tell him what had been going on with his life.
"Trini, there's nothing wrong with me…" Jason said, completely confused as to why she was reacting to him like that.
"Then why did you act like that when you were with Kim this morning?" Trini asked as she scooted away from him and placed a pillow between the two of them, although that did not make her feel any better, she was sure that he could kill her at only a moment's notice. He desperately wanted to see her and had no clue what she was talking about. Was there something that had been going on that he didn't know about?
"Trini, I haven't seen you in months…I thought that you would be glad to see me," Jason said as he reached up and touched her left shoulder and she let out a loud groan. "What's wrong?"
"You pulled my shoulder out of place earlier today. How can you not remember that?" Trini asked as he stared at her with wide eyes. He had no recollection of that happening, but he was not remembering a lot that was going on lately. That was mainly why he was here, he wanted her to help him.
"Actually that's the main reason I came. I can't remember a lot of what I've been doing lately, especially if Kim is around…Tri, what's going on?" Jason begged as she looked over at him as the tears started to flow.
"Jase, you're evil. There is some being that has made you and Kim evil when you are together. I guess that…Jase, me and Tommy are trying, but we don't know how to reach either of you. You're not coming to us," Trini said as he reached over and placed both of his arms around her and she cried on his shoulder. She had missed him holding her like this and forgot for the moment that the man next to her was a ticking time bomb, right now he was only her best friend and the comforter of her soul.
"What is your heart telling you?" Jason asked as she looked up at him. She thought that he was going to suddenly snap out of this and go crazy. "I believe you Tri…I came because I needed answers. This isn't what I thought it would be, but it makes sense."
"So you can't fight it? You can't help us out some?" Trini asked as Jason shrugged his shoulders. He was not sure what he could do, but he hoped that this conversation would stay with him and he would be able to help her. "Today you acted like you didn't even know me, much less actually care about me."
"You know how things like this go…if the link is Kimberly, then maybe I should just stay away from her," Jason said as Trini looked up at him, knowing that that was only a temporary solution.
"Jason Lee Scott, you cannot stay away from Kimberly, anymore than I can stay away from Billy. The two of you have been friends for so long that you'll eventually miss each other and then it'll come back full force," Trini said as Jason hung his head in shame. He had not wanted to hear something like that from her. He was willing to give up his friendship to keep the others safe, but he knew that she was right. There would be some day when the two of them would meet again and it would come back full force.
"I guess that you are going to have to do the only thing that you can," Jason said as Trini stared over at him, slightly shocked by what he was saying. "You are going to just have to keep trying and keep telling me how much you care, even if it hurts, even if I act like I don't care back. You will bring me out of this Trini, if anyone can it's you."
"When are you leaving?" Trini asked as Jason shrugged his shoulders. He knew that she was likely to wake up the next morning and he would be gone because of this damn evil that was somehow possessing him when he was with Kimberly.
"I'm not sure, do you want me to go now?" Jason asked as Trini shook her head no and he reached over for her and she threw her good arm around him in a fierce hug. "I will come back to you, you just have to keep at it. I love you, Tri, don't forget it."
"Love me?" Trini asked as Jason gave her a sheepish smile.
"Yeah, but obviously my evil self hasn't come to that conclusion yet. You have to keep trying, I don't want to be separated form you forever because of this," Jason said as he started fading away and she reached out to grab his hand. "I'll come back to you Trini, I promise."
"Why?" Trini yelled throwing her head back as she yelled up towards the sky, hoping that there would be some sort of answer for her, but nothing came other than the silence of the southern autumn night.
"I think that we have frustrated them enough for one week," Xanderien said as he placed Kimberly and Jason back in their cells for another dose of the evil inducing air. As long as they had their daily dose, they would stay evil. Nothing that Trini or Tommy did to bring them back would work.
"You know that these rangers have always managed to bring people back from being evil," Stanton remarked, nonchalantly, as Xanderien looked over at him and just shook his head.
"No one has ever been as powerful as I am, they will not go back to their rangers until they have destroyed them all," Xanderien said as the sleeping Kim and Jason inhaled the air that had betrayed them and he smiled. The plan that he had been working on since that fateful day seven years was finally coming to fruition and now the rangers would pay. It was only right that they did after everything that they had taken away from him.
