DISCLAIMER: Nope not mine.

SUMMARY: Tommy's still in a coma but Kim's awake now. How will Dulcea convince Tommy that his friends would not have been better off without him?

A/N: I have to thank my muse, Chylea for all of her awesome help and ideas. I don't think I could have gotten this far without her.

Tommy watched as Jason led the team to the temple and Ninjor. He watched as his best friend gave the same speech that he had given to his fellow Rangers but in his own unique Jason way. Of course when it came to gaining the powers of the Ninja, Jason became a White Ranger himself. But he was the White Tiger Ninja Ranger.

Tommy grimaced as he watched the team become strong through coming battles. He remembered so much of how he had stood by Kimberly and helped when her whole world seemed to fall apart.

"Do you not see yet, young Falcon? Your presence was such a factor in their lives that everything is different without you there. Jason returned early from the conference because the Rangers needed him when they gained their Ninja powers. But because he left the conference early, he wasn't there when Trini's problems started."

"What problems?" Dulcea flashed the two of them to the World Peace Conference in Geneva. Tommy watched helplessly as Trini started feeling the pressure of maintaining the conference and keeping up with her classes.

"What's wrong, Trini?" one of the other delegates asked her.

"I can't seem to stay awake in class. I find myself dozing off and my grades are slipping."

"I had the same problem for a while. Try taking just one of these about an hour before class starts. It'll keep you up."

"Really? Is it legal?"

"You can buy them over the counter. They're completely legal. Besides, almost everyone else is taking them or something like them. Everyone's doing it."

Trini shook her head. Tommy sighed in relief.

A few days later, however, Tommy felt his heart break as Trini took the pills. He watched as the pills kept her awake only to find her taking other pills to let her sleep.

As Tommy watched, it became two and more. She started taking different pills only to degenerate into other more dangerous drugs. He watched as one of the strongest people he had ever known fell deeper and deeper into the pit of drug addiction. "Trini? Trini would never take drugs. She knows that it's a bottomless pit of despair."

"But Jason isn't there to see the signs and save her from herself. In the world you remember, he was there. He noticed the signs. He kept her from the pills and convinced her that if she couldn't keep up with both that she needed to make the choice to quit the conference. But he had to stay in Angel Grove once he became the White Tiger Ranger. He couldn't keep running to her to make sure that she was all right. And when Kimberly's mother decided to move to Paris, Jason took her in. Aisha was always there for her but she stayed in Jason's home."

"So they…?" Tommy didn't even want to think about the possibility that Kim and Jason had gotten together.

"No. As you will see, they were never more than friends. He always cared for her but never as deeply as you did."

They went back to Angel Grove to watch as Kat arrived and started scheming to destroy the Rangers thanks to Rita's spell. She wanted Jason this time around and, since he wasn't dating anyone, the personal side to the vendetta she started against Kimberly wasn't as fierce. She was still determined to take Kim out of the picture only this time it was because Jason was so very protective of Kim that he would leave his dates with Kat anytime Kim needed him.

It was still Kim's power coin that Kat stole that day at the beach. But they had a much harder time keeping her recharged. It was as if she'd given up on holding on to the Power. He noticed the relief in her eyes when she was told that she'd made the team for Pan-Globals. He saw how happy she was to give up her coin to Kat and leave Angel Grove.

"Oh, Kim. What's going to happen to you now?"

****

Wheeling into Tommy's room, Kim stifled a gasp as she saw Tommy lying almost deathly still in the bed. The only true signs of life were his chest moving with each breath and the steady beeping of the heart monitor.

"Tommy?" Andrew pushed his niece closer to the bed so that she could take Tommy's hand. "Tommy, please come back to me. I still need you."