Author's Note: I feel really bad for this chapter, I really do. I can only hope that I managed to show the turmoil and angst that I feel Jason going through in this chapter. And poor poor Kat. The things I put my favorite character through, shame on me. Hope ya'll like it.

Shoutouts: Jeremy Shane- Here's more for you! Always good to hear from you.

Shievi- How's the next day work for you. Unfortunately I won't be done with this story by Thursday. Hopefully you'll still be able to read, even if you can't review. I know I keep ending on cliffhangers and I apologize to everyone, but they really are the best places to end my chapters. Hopefully I make up for it with quick updates. Jason's on his way... He's pushing through the pain of a gunshot wound to find Kat, nothing is gonna stop him.

brankel1- The bad guy is dead! YAY! That was something I toyed with for a long time... Do I kill him or is he taken into custody. But I decided in the end with his unstability that he would die before he let them capture him. Jason's on his way to Kat, he's going to stop at nothing to find her. Hopefully Kat's tougher than the average person. It February in New York and she's in nothing but a thing blouse and jeans and she's bleeding out... not good odds for her. Poor poor Kat.

Ghostwriter- That's right! It does take a lot to take out a ranger. But as I said earlier the odds are stacked against her. Poor thing. I can't imagine the terrible pain I'm putting her through. But everyone knows I love Kat. Here's the next chapter! Hope ya like it... and don't hate me!

Chapter 28

The chopper touched down in a clearing a hundred feet from the cabin owned by Rachel. Jason was the first out. His left arm bandaged up and in a sling, if he flexed his arm at all he could feel the bullet dig into his muscle a little bit more. He'd left his coat sitting in the chopper, not caring about the rain as he ran to the cabin. He threw open the door only to be greeted by darkness and silence.

"Kat!" He called out. He tried a light switch, but found it didn't work. Kale followed him next, with a flashlight.

"This will help." Kale suggested handing Jason one as well and taking out his gun. "I'll cover you. Tom and Dell are checking the perimeter"

"Thanks." Jason nodded. He looked around the room and spotted a door slightly ajar. Slowly he crept to it and pushed the door open. Kale entered first, Jason close behind him. On the floor was a bag of cold take out. The bed was a mess like someone had been in it. Jason opened a drawer and found scraps of clothing. He found a shred of black material with the tag still attached and realized it was his shirt that he'd forgotten in Kat's room months ago. Kat must have been wearing it when the bastard took her. "She was here."

"You sure?" Kale asked.

"This is my shirt, one that I know I left at Kat's when she was staying at the FBI house in Angel Grove."

"Where is she now?"

"I don't know..." Jason looked around the room at the way the food lay on the ground. "She ran."

"How do you know?"

"We've got nothing out here, what do you guys got?" Dell asked as he and Tom joined them.

"Kat was here, but she ran." Jason replied. He was beginning to feel lightheaded, but nothing was going to stop him from finding her.

"Where to?" Tom asked.

"How do you know?" Kale repeated.

"Look at the way the bag of food is laying." Jason pointed out. "Like Logan was thrown forward and dropped them." Jason moved into the doorway and slowly began walking like he was coming in with a bag. "Kat hit him from behind and when he went down she bolted."

"So where is she?" Dell questioned.

"We've got to spread out and look. It's freezing out there." Jason shook his head. He lead the other men back outside into the rain and shined his flashlight ahead. "Each take a different direction."

"If you don't find anything in twenty minutes make your way back here, keep radio contact." Dell instructed. Each man set out in a different direction. Jason chose to go straight forward from the cabin. The road leading into it was on the other side where the garage was, if Kat had rushed out of there she wouldn't have seen the road. He was betting on that.

"Kat!" He called as he continued walking, sweeping his flashlight from right to left and back again looking for any movement. His body shivered as the cold began to settle into his body, still he pressed on. Over hills and around trees, over logs and under branches, he pressed on. He would find her, no matter what.

"Jase, it's been almost thirty minutes, are you heading back?" Tom asked over the radio.

"No, I'm going to find her, she's here, I know it." Jason replied.

"We can't see anything in the dark and there isn't enough of us to cover the entire ground. We need light and more support." Dell cut in.

"Kat's here, and I'm not leaving until I find her." Jason argued. Just then he spotted a form just outside of his beam's reach. He rushed forward, holding his breath until the beam landed on the prone woman. He made out the blonde hair and creamy skin. "I found her!" He ignored the chatter over the radio as he rushed over to her. She was covered in blood and pale as a sheet of blank paper. "Kat! I'm here!"

He scooped her cold body up with his good arm. Her eyes barely opened, her breathing raspy and labored. "Jason." She barely whispered, though it was more a breath with lip movement.

"I'm here Snowflake. I found you." Jason repeated as he hugged her close.

"I'm so sorry." Kat said. Jason found he was more reading her lips than actually hearing her. She struggled to place her hand on his cheek, but found she could barely life her fingers.

"You've got nothing to be sorry for." Jason choked out as he slowly began to rock her. They stared at each other for a few moments, neither sure of what more to say. Finally Kat broke the silence.

"I knew you'd find me. I love you." She gave him a weak smile just before her body went limp and a raspy breath left her throat. Her head rolled back on his arm.

"Kat!... Kat! No!" Jason shouted as he shook her fiercely. "Don't you dare die on me!" Jason quickly removed his wounded arm from the sling and reached out to her neck to find a pulse with his fingers. He felt his insides freeze and his blood run cold when he felt nothing. "Kat! Stay with me!"

He laid her flat once again and repositioned her head. He blew two breaths deep into her lungs, a trickle of blood bubbled up as her diaphragm pushed the air back out. He quickly unbuttoned her shirt, found her sternum, and began compressions, ignoring the pain from his arm.

"Don't. You. Fucking. Leave. Me. Kat." He uttered each word with his thrusts. He gave another two breaths, more blood bubbled up from her lungs.

He'd gone through four cycles before the others found him. "You're arm is gushing Jason!" Tom shouted as he knelt next to Jason.

"I don't give a fuck." Jason snapped

"Let me do the compressions." Kale suggested as he knelt opposite of him. Jason nodded before giving Kat two more breaths. Kale and Jason continued to two man CPR Kat. Dell used his PDA to triangulate their position and radioed for a medical chopper. Tom stood and moved off to the side, shaking his head. He knew it was too late and that Jason was fighting an already lost battle, but he didn't have the heart to tell his friend that.

Bright lights shone down on them as the chopper arrived. There was no where to land so they hovered overhead and the medical team repelled down. Dell gave a report to the lead paramedic as two others took over for Jason and Kale.

"You should go in the chopper too." One of the remaining paramedics said to Jason as he gestured toward his heavily bleeding arm. "You're looking pale."

"I'm lightheaded too." Jason nodded as he suddenly found his footing unsteady. The paramedic caught him before he could fall.

"How long ago where you shot?"

"I don't know." Jason shook his head.

"We've got a second for transport." The paramedic called out to his team. "Gunshot, looks like he lost a lot of blood."

"I think this is a lost cause." One of the paramedics said from his place on the ground with Katherine. "No pulse, no respiration... I'd say she's gone."

"No! You have to do something!" Jason was frantic. "Please, just get her on the chopper... shock her or something!"

"Calm down." the paramedic that was holding him said calmly. "That's our job, to do anything we can. We're not God though and we can't bring people back."

"Please, you have... have to something." Jason blinked repeatedly as his vision began to swirl.

"Let's get them aboard!" the lead paramedic called. Kat was hoisted first, and then it was Jason's turn. He sat on a cot next to her and took her cold hand into his own.

"Don't leave me Snowflake. I need you." He whispered.

"You'll have to let go of her." the lead paramedic said softly.

"Never." Jason scowled.

"I mean, you can't touch her while we shock her." he corrected. Jason begrudgingly released Kat's hand as the paddles were charged.

"Clear!" a paramedic warned. Seconds later Kat's body jumped.

"Nothing." The other paramedic shook his head.

"Again." the first ordered. "Clear!"

"Nothing," Jason was so busy watching the two paramedics taking care of Kat, he'd hardly noticed the two tending to his arm. They'd carefully extracted the bullet and wrapped his wound to control blood flow, although he was soaking right through the bandages at an accelerated rate. They'd started an IV for him. He also failed to notice that they were pushing a strong dose of morphine into his system.

"Clear!" the first called again, his voice growing distant to Jason as his blurred vision began to tunnel. Kat's body jumped again.

"Nothing, still!"

"Again!... Clear!" Everything seemed to move in slow motion to Jason as Kat's body once again jumped, his racing pulse roared in his ears, nearly drowning out the loud sounds of the medical chopper.

"Nothing." Jason saw a different paramedic shake his head.

"Call it!" the lead paramedic said.

"No! Please!" Jason cried. "I love her!"

"Again!" The first paramedic nodded in understanding. "Clear!" Jason saw Kat's body jump once again as everything around him began to fade.

Please, spare her! God... Zordon... Anyone listening! Leave Katherine here!

"Nothing!" he heard once again before he lost consciousness.