DISCLAIMER: Nope not mine.

SUMMARY: Kimberly has arrived at her uncle's house and realized that Tommy was part of the Overdrive set up. We know now that Kimberly can still morph.

Kim jumped into the battle. Moments later, she saw Tommy and Billy join the battle with the other Rangers, Tommy taking his usual position at Jason's back.

Her heart skipped a beat. 'Tommy!' He was just as handsome as she remembered. 'He cut his hair.'

Her momentary distraction was all the opening the lizards needed. She was thrown backwards, landing unconscious at Billy's feet. The Power slipped, leaving her unprotected. Tommy felt his heart pounding in fear as he watched her fall. 'Some things never change.'

"Billy, Andrew, get her out of here!" Tommy yelled.

Billy knelt beside his petite friend and, after a quick check of her vitals, he gathered her in his arms and headed for the house with Andrew right behind him.

After the battle, Tommy, Jason and the Rangers went back to the Command Center. Tommy was quiet. He couldn't believe SHE was here.

Had Andrew invited her here in the hopes of pushing a confrontation? If so, what did he hope would happen?

It wasn't like he didn't want to know what had happened but he was finally starting to move on. Why drag up the past now?

"Tommy? Hey, Tommy." Jason tapped his old friend on the shoulder. "The last time I saw you like this was just before I left for the conference." He chuckled.

Tommy shook his head with a sad look on his face. "I lost her, Jase."

"She just didn't think you'd understand." Tommy looked at his friend with a question clearly written on his face. "She felt like she was losing you to the Power. She felt like she didn't belong anymore. She wrote the letter as her way of trying to find out if you were still her White Knight." Jason shook his head. "You lost her, but not to another guy. You lost her because you failed to respond to the letter. She dropped out of gymnastics and gave up on almost everything when you didn't even call to see if the letter was true."

"What do you mean she gave up?" Tommy couldn't believe it. Kimberly never gave up on anything. She always fought through to the end of any battle.

'Think about it, man. She didn't hear from you very often and she didn't hear from the others at all. She started feeling like she wasn't important to you anymore. That was when some idiot on the team gave her the idea of writing that stupid letter. They told her that it would either prove that you loved her still by getting you to call or come down there or prove that you weren't interested in her anymore."

"And I let her down."

"You did in a big way. When Emily and I left here after I lost the Gold Powers, we went to Florida. You wouldn't believe how I found her."

"How?" Tommy was starting to feel bad. Why hadn't he at least called her to ask her what was going on? Why had he just run off to go skiing with Kat and Billy as if it didn't matter that she'd dumped him?

"When we first arrived, the coach told us that, one day, she just packed up, said her goodbyes and walked away from the complex. We asked everyone, whether they were on the team or just worked with it, until her roommate told us that she'd said she couldn't stay in Miami anymore because it reminded her of everything she'd lost because of a dream that just wasn't worth it anymore. The young woman gave us her address. She was living in an efficiency apartment in Orlando and working two jobs just to get by."

"What? Why?"

"She thought she was alone. You see, Kim had called her mother and told her that she wanted to come and live with her in Paris because she just couldn't take the stress of the training anymore and her mother said that she had to continue. She couldn't give up just because of a little stress. That was when Kim packed up and left Miami. When Emily and I found her she was in bad shape."

Jason's mind drifted back to his friend's predicament when he and Emily had knocked on her door.

FLASHBACK

"Kim? Kim, it's me. Kimberly?" Jason pushed the door open. The sight that greeted his eyes would be burned in his mind forever.

Kimberly was trying to fight off a large man who had her pinned to the floor and was pulling at her clothes. He ran over and knocked the guy off of her and pulled her over to where he could stand in front of both her and Emily. All three edged away from the door as the man came at them.

"I'll be back tomorrow. You'll pay me the rent one way or the other," he growled as he left the room, slamming the door behind him.

Turning to Kimberly, who was shaking in Emily's embrace, Jason was in full big brother mode. "What was that about?"

"He wanted me to have sex with him. He said that it would be the only way to pay off the rent that I currently owe."

"How far behind are you?"

"Two months. It's been so hard trying to keep up on the bills." Kim was sobbing now, embarrassed that Jason had to see her like this. She just hoped he didn't open the fridge or the cupboards. She didn't want him to know that she was living off of her meals at McDonald's.

"How bad is it, sis?" Jason gentled his voice when he saw how scared she was. "Talk to me. Let me help you."

"Jason, I can't do this anymore. I just don't care." It was those words that made him stop and take a close look at her. Her normally bouncy brunette locks were limp and dirty. Her face looked pale and drawn. She looked to have lost about ten pounds, which was ten pounds she couldn't afford to lose. There was no sparkle in her eyes and she didn't have any bounce in her step.

He gathered his "sis" in his arms and simply held her for a few minutes, forgetting that he was going to find out about that damn letter and tell Tommy what was going on.

FLASHBACK ENDS

"She was lost and needed help. So Emily and I got married and we got a three-bedroom house together. She worked hard right alongside us and we took care of everything. Once we got her back on her feet, she started to train beside me again and we opened a small dojo/gymnastics center. Emily takes care of the books while I teach martial arts and Kim does her gymnastics."

"Why does she have a cast on her leg?"

"I take it no one told you about the accident?"

"What accident?"

"One night, Kim had gone to the store and bumped into a former teammate of hers. The girl offered Kim a ride home. Kim didn't know that this person had been doing drugs. She got in the car with her and the rest, as they say, is history. There was an accident and a family died. Kim's friend died and Kim's leg was practically shattered from the knee to the ankle." Jason's head dropped. "She's going to kill me for telling you about all this. But, bro, you have the right to know why she seems so lost anymore."

"Jason, how is she able to morph?"

"That, my old friend, is a long and involved story that I think would be better for her to tell you."

"Why?"

"Because it was hard for me to believe at first. And I think you'll find it easier to believe if it comes from her." Jason clasped a hand on his old friend's shoulder and the two of them finished the trek to the house.