Up for Chapter 12.
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Chapter 12
Billy headed to his office to meet Mia's "mother", Jason tag along especially since he was so curious on who the person is. When they reach the office the secretary informed them that someone is waiting for them.
Upon opening the door, thy saw someone sitting in front of the desk and now is looking at them. Jason gasped at the visitor while Billy smiled.
The visitor smiled and stood up and hugs Billy not fully noticing his companion.
"It's been a long time, Billy, I missed you." She said.
Billy hugs her back.
"I miss you too, Tri." He removed himself from the hug and look at Kwan.
"It's about Mia!" Trini forlornly said. "How is she?"
Billy sighed and shook his head. "It's not good, Tri."
Trini sighed. "She is going to wake up soon; we need to bring her to see Mia. She had been hysterical when you told her what happened. I only gave her a sleeping pill to calm her."
Jason cleared his throat to get the attention of the two people inside the office. Both look at him, he came closer and took Trini in a warm embrace, Trini wasn't expecting what Jason did, especially since both of them have a big fight before Jason left the conference to aid Tommy and the other power rangers before. Love was blooming between them but Jason immediately ended before it even started. She tried to understand Jason, since they were talking about saving the world, but what hurt her most is Jason did have a relationship with the girl named Emily.
She released herself from the hug and look at Billy.
"We have to go." She suggested.
Billy nodded. Trini walked forward followed by Jason and Billy.
"Who are we going to meet up and where?" Jason asked.
"She is in my car." Trini answered
"How did you know, Mia?" Billy asked as they went inside the elevator.
"This is not the time to talk about that." Trini said.
All the way, Trini had been quite and very serious, and during a time like this, both knew that asking questions to her is hopeless.
The moment the elevator opened Trini straightaway came out of it and went to her car. When she opens the door, she notice that the woman sitting on the passenger seat is slowly waking up. She watches her, the woman look around until her eyes rest on Trini.
"Where is she?" The woman immediately asked.
"We are going there now. Billy and Jason are here to accompany us to where she is." She said as she moves away revealing Billy and a very astonished Jason.
"It's you." A wide eyes Jason uttered.
Jayden and the others reach Reefside safely.
"Where is our first destination then?" Mike asked.
Jayden shook his head and look around for any familiar faces that might had gone to where they are.
Mike sighed.
"Did you take with you your samuraizers?" Jayden asked.
The two nodded.
"We better split up. We could easily find what we are looking for." Jayden suggested.
Mike and Antonio nodded in agreement. Both nodded. Mike move ahead of them, Antonio is still hesitant to say something to Jayden. He sighed.
"It's now or never." He said.
"What is it, Antonio?" Jayden inquired.
Antonio looked at him straight in the eyes.
"I know that you know that I felt something for Mia." Jayden looked away. He is aware of it. And he felt threatened, he knew that Mia liked him but that was more than a year ago. And now, there is a possibility that Mia doesn't feel the same.
He sighed and looks at Antonio.
"Whoever Mia chooses lets still stay as friends." He said. "I know Mia won't like to see us fighting because of her or else she might do something that she might regret."
Antonio nodded as he smiles to Jayden. "I know that amigo, she's a bit reckless sometimes but sooner or later she will just blame herself for something that already happened." He sighed.
"But still she might have changed a bit; she is still the sweet pretty pink samurai ranger that we knew." Jayden said as he offered his hand to Antonio for a hand shake.
"May the best man win Mia's heart!" Antonio accepted it.
"And still the best of friends till the end." Both smiled as they turn their back to each other and went to different direction. What they didn't notice is the pair of eyes looking at them. A smile showed in his face.
"I'm glad that they talk. It's really difficult to be with those two if they are very silent." He thought. He sighs as he looked at the direction that he is going. "Now, all I have to think about is finding Mia. She was hurt in the last battle; I just hope that it's not that bad. Be okay, little sis. Please be okay."
Cole was standing in the middle of Reefside Park, looking at nothing at particular. His thought was focused on what happened to Mia.
"I failed to protect her, Princess Shayla. What is the use of being a power ranger if I can't protect the girl that needed to be protected? I can't even do something for her."
A glimpse of memory showed up on his mind, on what happened when they arrived at the headquarters Medical area. Tommy looks so miserable; it's as if the very life of him vanished. It's the first time he saw him like that. Both Jason and Tommy had led them to battle during their last mission on the moon to defeat the enemy that threatens to conquer Earth.
His mind travel to what Mia had told him. "Maybe he knew about Mia." He deducted and felt sadness build up on his heart. "Mia and Tommy knew about each other but maybe, both of them are scared of rejection. Mia, you have to wake up. Tommy, your father, is waiting for you."
When he came out of his thought he came face to face with a guy he once saw, one of Mia's friends, looking intently and cautiously at him. His curiosity grew. The old man in the Panorama manor, where he took Mia had made such a weird stance when he saw him, even Mia's friends had been acting weird when they saw him.
"What can I do for you?" He asked.
"Why are you here?'' The boy asked. Cole's brows furrowed.
"What do you mean?"
"You're already dead."
"WHAT!" He bawled unbelievingly. "How can you even say that when this is the first time I saw you?"
The boy looked at him brows' furrowed.
"We met before, Decker."
Cole sighed as he understand what is happening, this boy mistaken him for someone else.
"My name isn't Decker; I am Cole, one of Mia's friends here in Reefside."
The boy still seems hesitant but he notices that the boy slowly lowers his guard down.
"My name is Mike; I came here to see, since we are notified that she had been staying here when she's not in Panorama."
Cole looked at Mike. "We need help that we could get. Mia might need him as a support; this is not all about how many people will get involve. This is about her."
He turned away from him. "Come with me, Mia, needs you the most today."
Mike's eyes widened. "You mean?"
"She's in critical condition right now, the doctors gave her 3 days to wake up, and we only have less than 2 days left."
Mike's eyes started to water. He couldn't believe what he just heard.
Cole started moving as Mike followed him.
"Don't gave up! I'm coming."
Tommy kissed Mia's forehead when the door opened and a woman unceremoniously entered the room. He couldn't believe what he is seeing; all his emotions are mixing up.
"What are you doing here?" The only words he uttered that his brain was able to process.
Instead of responding the woman immediately run to Mia's side grabbing her hands and kneeled down to where Mia is currently sleeping, as she started to cry again. Tommy just looks at how the woman cried her heart out. He didn't notice three other people coming in the room.
"Mia, mom's here now. So please wake up. Don't do something reckless and leaving us all behind." She cried. "You promised, you promised that you won't make me cry, so please wake up."
She tightly holds Mia's hand and kissed it. Trini move closer to Mia and kneeled beside the woman. She touch put her hand on her shoulder.
"Kim, look at me. You have to be strong for both you and Mia. I know she is fighting to come back to all of us. She won't leave us without a fight." This time Kim looked at her. "I believe in her."
Kim wiped away her tears and stood up, Trini smiled and followed.
"You are right, Mia is fighting somewhere. I won't leave her side until she wakes up." Kim seated on the chair where Tommy was previously sitting.
Trini move closer to Mia and kissed her on her forehead.
"Hello, Princess, aren't you over sleeping there already, I think it's time to wake up." Trini said.
Everyone sat there have their own questions but no one dared to ask. Kim sighed.
"I meet Mia when she just turned seven, when we went to Panorama for vacation together with some of my friends. She was in the park crying, when I went to ask why she is crying." Tommy looked at her interested in her story.
FLASHBACK
An asian girl with a brunette hair was sitting on a bleacher while crying. Kim saw this and thought that she was loss since she was alone sitting there. She walks closer to the child and taps her shoulder to get her attention. She smiled when the girl looked at her.
"What's the matter, did you got separated from your parents?"
The girl shook her head.
"What is the reason you are crying?" Now she sat beside her. The girl looks at her a little longer before she started to open her mouth again.
"My papa told me that I am not their real daughter, that I am just adopted." The girl started to cry over again. "Now I know why they never really liked me at all and put their attention to my little brother." (Note: Kids could be very jealous to their sibling and felt unloved when they seem to feel left out)
Kim felt sad about it. She doesn't know why but she already liked the girl so much. She felt comfortable now she is here beside the girl. She cuddles the girl and comforted as much as possible.
"I don't have a family, miss. Why can't I have one?" The girl asked.
Kim's eyes watered when she heard it. She released the girl and touch her face.
"My name Is Kimberly Hart, and from now on I will become your mommy." Kim stated as she smiled sweetly.
"You look like you don't live here; you are going to live me too, like my real mommy she died a long time ago. And my real daddy is far away so I can't go to him."
Kim thought for a while.
"I will always visit you here. What is your name by the way?"
"It's Mia. Really? You will come and visit me here?"
Kim smiled and nodded. The girl's face brightened and at that moment she started calling Kim Mommy.
END FLASH BACK
"A year after, I decided to live in Panorama to be with her.'' Kim once again touch Mia's hand. "I also discovered who her father is."
Tommy, Billy and Jason looked at her.
"You knew who it was?"
Kim nodded. "She knew it too, that is the reason why she came here at Reefside to find you."
She looked at Tommy.
"Why didn't she tell me?" Tommy asked.
"She is scared."
"Of what?"
"Rejection from you and your family. She is tired of it." Kim sadly answered. "Mia has always felt that, even when she was still young, all the other kids kept on setting her aside cause for them she doesn't fit in."
"What do you mean?" Tommy asked
"Well she belongs to a rich family, and she stops going to school when she reached the age of nine. She was enrolled to a home based schooling and undergone a training to become the Pink samurai ranger."
Tommy gasped and look at Mia.
"Unlike us, she was not chosen to become a power ranger but she was force to it because everyone never knew of her as the adopted first born child of the Watanabe's. What hurt is, her parents never treated her as their own daughter rather they treated her as the Pink ranger." Tommy looked at confused at her story.
"Everyone knew her as the first born, no one knew about her as an adopted. And in that family, only the first born can replace the previous samurai ranger."
"She is a power ranger too?" Jason asked. Kim looked at him and nodded.
"At this situation she had created a mask to please everyone and that mask only wears down when she is with us. But as time goes by, Mia can't even already identify the real her and the mask, it even overwhelms the real her."
"Who are you with?" Billy asked. Brows furrowed.
"Trini, when I told her about Mia, she immediately came to Panorama." Kim answered.
"Yeah, that was less than two years after the Peace conference." Trini said. "I immediately transferred there to help Kim, and Panorama have the best school of Medicine so it is really a good opportunity to go there."
Trini remembered something and smiled.
"I remember the song she sang when she visited us three years ago." Trini said
Kim smiled too.
"She has a very beautiful voice." Kim brought out her phone. "Do you want to hear it? I was able to record it."
Tommy and the others nodded. Kim presses the play button and a piano started to play on air,
as a beautiful voice is heard. (The song is Reflection hope you like it)
Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart
Who is that girl I see
Staring back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
I am now
In a world where I
Have to hide my heart
And what I believe in
But somehow
I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am
Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection
Someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
There's a heart that must be
Free to fly
That burns with a need to kno
The reason why
Why must we all conceal
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
As the song stop playing, a bitter smile came out from Kim's lips.
"I couldn't do anything to help her. She is suffering and all I could do is just to stay there and watch. What kind of mother am I?"
"You are a good mother." Billy answered. "You were able to stay with her even if the world is against her. You were there and helped her when no one was there to accept her mask and the real her. Both of you are."
Trini too had become so emotional. She cared for Mia so much, that she too will do anything for her.
"I am there, yes. But still I did nothing to help her." Kim angrily said.
"She can be herself when she's with you." Jason said. As he try to comfort Trini, who is now crying silently in his chest.
Kim continued to cry, Billy silently touches her shoulder as she hide her face on the bed.
"Kim." It was Tommy. Kim got up and look at Tommy. "Does Mia hate me?"
Kim shook her head.
"She loves you Tommy, you are her father after all." Kim answered.
"Thank you." Tommy said. "She grew up to be a very beautiful, kind, caring and brave girl. Just like you. She may have suffered a lot, but still she is still the perfect little princess that I so much wished to meet." After saying this, he ran out of the room. Kim smiled when she heard it.
"Thank you so much, Tommy."
Cole and Mike stayed outside listening to the conversation that is happening inside the room.
Mike couldn't hide his anger towards the Watanabe's but most of all he couldn't stop the sorrow that keeps on eating his heart when he heard who Mia really is. He never thought that the girl who had become the big sister of the whole group had suffered such emotional distress. But still he was happy, even if Mia always wear her mask, he knew that she showed more of her real personality. Maybe she might be hiding so many secrets but everyone hides a secret to protect the people so dear to them.
He was taken out of his thought when a guy suddenly burst out of the door and walked away from them.
"Tommy." Cole uttered as he sadly looked at his disappearing comrade. Then he looked at Mike and bitterly smiled. "That was Tommy, he was there in the battle that happened the other day."
"Was he the…."
"Yes, Mike, he is the real father of Mia." Cole bitterly said.
"They were already together. But both of them are scared to be rejected by one another." Mike uttered.
Cole looked up to stop the tears that are welling up on his eyes. Mike's tears started to shed a lot earlier so he doesn't have to hide it.
"Let's go inside. I guess everyone wanted to see you?" Cole went ahead.
"Hello!" Cole greeted. He pulled Mike at his back and presented him to the group. "This is Mike, one of Mia's friends; I thought he could help us in talking to Mia."
Jason smiled. Trini moved away from Jason as she wipes her eyes and went to welcome Mike.
"Hello, my name is Trini, Mia's aunt. That is Kim there, she is Mia's mom, that is Jason and that is Billy."
"Hello, my n—name is Miike, one of Mia's friend." He stated as he tries to become polite to everyone. Trini smiled at this.
Billy smiled too. "Kim, Trini, I better bring you to your quarters, you need to rest." He said.
Kim was about to protest.
"Billy is right, we need to rest. Mia won't like to see us like this." Trini said. Kim nodded in defeat, giving Mia a kiss on her forehead and left. Leaving Cole and Mike in the room.
"Do you have a place to stay?" Cole asked. Mike shook his head. "You can stay at one of the quarters here, I will just fix the bed where you can stay.''
"Hmmmnnn…. Thank you."
When Cole closed the door, he went to sit beside Mia.
"Jeezz. Mia, you look so small in all this large equipment that is connected to you. It doesn't suit you. You are a lot better without those things."
Mike is always the talkative one in their group, and always ensue a friendly quarrel to Kevin, he was even called the rebel of the team, but now he doesn't know what to utter.
"I am always committing mistake but in the end you always understand me. Is it because we are the same, we just wanted to be accepted by the people around us by who we really are." Mike said. "But when you gave me the beetle disc before, I felt accepted. I felt the trust that you gave me when you did that. You were the one who trusted in my own skills and accepted my mistake. " He chuckled. "I consider you as my little sister, but that time you acted as my big sister. And I do believe that the Mia I met is the real you. "
He stopped and looked up. "I don't want to thank you for everything, because if I do, you might slip away and never return to us. I don't care if you call me selfish; all I care now is for you to wake up. I need you here, sis. I wanted you here." He cried.
After ten minutes in calming his own emotion, he smiled again.
"Don't gave up because that is the Mia I know." He walked outside in time with Cole coming to get him.
"Are you okay?" Cole asked.
Mike shook his head.
"Looking at her like that kills me inside, I couldn't accept her condition."
"Everyone felt the same." Cole said. "Let's go."
What they didn't know there are two unseen figures looking at them.
"I'm trying to fight but how?"
To be continued.
Yep, I'm a Tommy- Kim fan. It took me so long to accept that Kim and Tommy have broke up and only through a letter. That is so painful. Will if every one of you keep on wandering about the age of Mia and Tommy, well in this story Mia is already 19 years old, well in Terry's case, let us just think that he skip grade levels because he is a genius. And Tommy is already 35 years old, which means he was only 16 when Mia was born. It could happen. Ashley and Andros are also 35 and s with Jason and Trini. And Mia and Mike have thesame age it's just, Mike is childish that is why he was treated as a kid.