DISCLAIMER: Nope still not mine. Disney and Saban own them. I'm just playing with them for a little while.
SUMMARY: Tara and Tommy are asleep in Jason and Kim's living room. Tommy saved her from getting hit by a truck. But is he telling the truth about why he was limping?
A/N: I hope that everyone is enjoying the current chapters of these stories. I want to dedicate this chapter to Chylea who tends to figure out what I'm doing before I get it written. Fair warning, my friend, my mind can be a scary place to be at times.
Tommy woke up to see that it was dark outside and the house was quiet. Very carefully, he extracted his hand from Tara's grip and stood up.
He drew in a sharp breath as he tenderly put his weight on the ankle he'd been favoring earlier. He walked into the kitchen and closed the door so that he could turn on the light without waking Tara up.
Tommy,
Jason and I left the food in the fridge in case you and Tara wanted to eat when you woke up. Don't worry about cleaning up. Just enjoy.
Kim
He smiled when he saw the note from his former teammate. Sitting down in a chair, he put his left leg up on the nearest chair and pulled up his pant leg. He winced when he saw the way his entire ankle had swollen up and bruised. The bruise went almost halfway up his calf and he was afraid to take off his shoe to see how much of his foot was included in the mark.
The truck had tagged him. He hadn't paid it any mind before this because he was more worried about Tara.
"When were you going to say something, bro?" Jason's voice startled the young man.
"I wasn't. I was just going to go home and take care of it after I made sure that Tara was alright. But when she caught my hand the way she did, I couldn't make myself leave. I sat down and fell asleep. Now look at it."
"How bad does it hurt?"
"It feels a little stiff. But not as if anything's broken."
"Let me take a look at it, bro. Let's get this shoe off."
"I'm almost afraid to. I might not be able to get it back on."
"Probably won't. We need to see how bad it is though and I can't do that with the shoe on." Jason knelt down beside Tommy's foot and very carefully removed the shoe.
The entire foot was black and blue. Jason inhaled sharply on seeing the color of his friend's foot. "We need to get you to the hospital and have this checked out." He helped his friend to stand up and walked him out to the car.
Tommy and Jason made it into the hospital in short order. The nurses got Tommy into one of the exam rooms before they even finished the registration process. They quickly started trying to get the swelling to go down so they could x-ray the leg.
Jason's cell phone rang just as Tommy was taken into x-ray. Stepping outside for to answer it, he was not surprised to hear Kim's voice on the other end.
"You know you should have left a note if you and Tommy were going to run off to do whatever you're doing. Tara woke me up in tears because you two had disappeared."
"Sorry, Kim. Tommy had to go to the hospital. Apparently, the truck that almost hit Tara clipped Tommy's leg."
"Oh my God! Is he okay?"
"He's in x-ray right now. But it didn't look good. His whole foot was black and blue. Kim, I don't know if it's broken or not but it really didn't look good. He wouldn't have said anything if I hadn't walked in while he was looking at his leg."
"Let me know as soon as you find out what's going on. Tell him I hope it's nothing serious."
"He'll be okay, Kim. You know Tommy."
"Yeah. I do. And I know that no matter what the doctors say, he's going to do what he wants." Kim giggled a little just before turning around to hang up the phone only to see Tara standing in the doorway. "I have to go, Rex."
"Talk to you later, Firebird."
Once they had hung up, Kim looked at Tara. "That was Jason. He's at the hospital with Tommy. I guess the truck that almost hit you clipped him."
"Oh god! He's hurt? How bad is it?"
"We don't know yet." Kim noticed that Tara was turning pale. "Tara, breathe. Breathe." Kim wrapped an arm around the young woman who was starting to tremble.
"He was hurt because of me!" Tara whispered. She collapsed against Kim's shoulder, crying brokenly. Kim guided the tiny woman into the living room and they sat down on the couch to wait for the guys to get back.
"Tara, let me explain a few things about Tommy."