This one kind of came out as a bit of a rush job, seeing as how I'm leaving for almost a week for a job on Wednesday morning. Today was the only day I was going to be able to get to do it.

Enjoy.

"Uh, Jason? You feeling okay there?"

"I'm fine, Zack." Jason most certainly didn't feel fine, but his friends didn't need to know that. Besides, he was a ranger, even if he was sick, it was probably going to go away any time now.

"Jason?"

Of course, life just had to curse the red ranger with the arrival of one of his girlfriends. Heaven help him if Kimberly even suspected he was anything but one hundred percent.

"Hey, Kim." Jason put on one of his most convincing healthy looks as he closes the locker. "What's up?"

"You're sick." Kimberly was glaring now, not a good sign.

"What?" Jason laughed, even as his guts gave an uncomfortable lurch. "Don't be ridiculous. I'm not sick."

"Then why aren't you wearing your jacket?"

"It's hot in here."

"Dude, it's freezing." Zack just had to add his own two cents.

"Huh, weird." Jason was verbally back peddling now and he knew it.

"You look a little pale too." Kimberly pressed the attack, both verbally and physically by stepping right in front of him. Before he could even react, the pink ranger had a hand on his forehead. "Feel pretty warm too. I think you have a fever, Jason."

"I'm fine." Jason repeated.

"What did you have for breakfast?" Kimberly's eyes bore holes through Jason's. It was only because of his own willpower he managed to hold her gaze instead of shying away.

"Umm… I was in a hurry, had to skip it." Jason lied surprisingly smoothly. He hadn't been in a hurry, but his stomach at the time had made it abundantly clear that if he did eat something, he'd be seeing it again later. In a far more unpleasant form.

"Okay, fine." Kimberly sighed in what almost sounded like defeat. Except this was Kimberly Hart, she didn't do defeat, at least not this easily. "You brought this upon yourself. Zack, do you mind?"

"Yes, ma'am." Zack saluted, and promptly swept Jason's leg out from under him with a swift swing of his own.

Under normal circumstances, Jason would have seen the attack coming a mile off with his ranger reflexes. Any one of the rangers could have easily blocked, and then followed up with a counter. If not, they could have at least moved to keep their footing.

Jason was able to do neither.

Between the slow reaction time, and his difficulty focusing, Jason suddenly found the linoleum tile rushing up to say hello. The red ranger would have faceplanted right then and there, had Zack and Kimberly not caught him by seizing an arm each.

"Okay, so I may be feeling a little off." Jason admitted. "But I'm not sick."

"Stubborn idiot." Kimberly shook her head. "Do I need to beat some sense into you?"

"You'd probably have better luck making Trini wear frilly pink." Zack snickered as the pair guided Jason back to his feet, where it became apparent he was not quite steady anymore.

From the moment Jason first lost his footing, the hallways were starting to spin and even now it hadn't stopped yet. It was clear, to Jason at least, that if somebody wasn't holding him up he'd be getting very well acquainted with the floor. To make matters even worse, the queasy feeling in his stomach was growing more intense. The last thing he needed was to throw up in the middle of the hallway.

"That's it." Kimberly declared. "I'm taking you home."

"Let me handle it." Zack doing something selfless as escorting his ill friend home? Jason had to have hallucinated that one. "You've been skipping too much lately, nobody bats an eye when I do it."

"Okay." Kimberly obviously didn't like it, but she evidently trusted Zack enough with Jason's wellbeing for the short term. "I'll let Trini and Billy know. I'll stop by later after school to check up on you."

"I'm not dying, sheesh." Jason attempted to brush off Kimberly's concerns, but was almost undone when Zack almost let go of his arm. Seeing as how Kimberly had already stepped back, Zack was the only thing keeping Jason standing. He didn't fully release the hold, but the message was clear. 'Shut up and quit pretending'.

"Alright, fess up." At least Zack waited until Kimberly was out of earshot before beginning his interrogation. "How are you actually feeling?"

"I…" Jason started to answer but Zack did that pretend-to-let-go thing again, making Jason instantly change his tune. "I feel like crap."

"Yeah." Zack chuckled. "Thought so. You should know better than to try the pretend act with Kimberly. Girl's like a bloodhound when it comes to you and Trini."

The pair made it to the parking lot before Jason's legs all but gave out on him. Zack, whom had been helping Jason walk by holding him by the arm, said nothing and immediately slung the red rangers arm over his shoulders to half carry him, and half drag him to his truck.

Never in Jason's darkest nightmares did he ever imagine he'd be allowing Zack free reign to drive his beloved, although shoddy, truck. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so Jason handed the keys over without complaint.

The drive to the Scott residence was a blur to Jason. He'd probably passed out shortly after they started. One second Zack was pulling out of the parking lot, the next the black ranger was shaking him awake.

"Come on, boss." Zack all but had to carry Jason up to his room, the red ranger's legs were just refusing to cooperate anymore. "Up we go."

"Thanks." Jason was unceremoniously thrown, face first, onto his mattress.

"Zack's chauffeur service, at your service." Jason wasn't looking at him, but he could just imagine the dramatic bow Zack was making right now.

Getting rid of Zack was easy, he wasn't planning on staying to begin with. Just long enough to make sure that Jason was just feeling a little sick, and not at the mercy of something far worse. He was content to leave his friend to sleep it off. Good thing too, neither Zack nor Jason would have been too keen on Zack babysitting him.

"Hey, sleepyhead." Jason woke to Kimberly gently shaking him awake. He must have slipped from conscious yet again shortly after being deposited by Zack.

"Kim?" Jason groggily rolled over onto his back. "Thought you had class?"

"It's three thirty, yo." Trini appeared over Trini's shoulder. She masked it well, but Jason liked to think he could see it when his girlfriend was concerned. "Why can't you sleep like a normal person?"

Kimberly sighed, this time in irritation, before helping Jason to lay more properly on the bed with his back to the headboard. "Because Zack is lazy, and just tossed Jason here. Guess we should be glad he at least got him to his room."

"I half expected to find him on the front porch." Trini took a seat on the bed on Jason's opposite side while Kimberly put her hand to his forehead just like earlier. The cool touch like heaven on Jason's hot skin. "Still a bit warm, but not too bad. Definitely better."

Jason was certainly feeling better. The worst of the nausea had passed in his sleep, and he mostly just felt overheated and exhausted. The discomfort that remained would probably be abated if he could manage to get some food down.

"Think you're up to eating anything?" Trini produced a small plastic bowl from seemingly nowhere. "Brought some of my mom's homemade soup. Uhh… well I hijacked the recipe so it's probably not as good, but still.

"You told me it was just soup." Kimberly stared at their girlfriend with utter bewilderment. "You made that yourself?"

"My mom wasn't going to make it, obviously." Trini shrugged. "What?"

"Never thought I'd see you do something so…" Kimberly pondered.

"Domestic?" Jason finished for his girlfriend, caught equally flatfooted.

"Are you going to eat the damn soup or not?" Trini huffed and all but shoved the container into Jason's hands, her flush slowly rising.

Jason was going to argue he wasn't hungry, when his stomach chose that moment to grumble loudly. Both girls arched eyebrows and Jason had no choice but to comply.

The soup was… less than stellar, but Jason wolfed it down anyway. Out of both starvation, and a desire not to hurt Trini's feelings. She could pretend all she wanted, but Jason knew she was self-conscious. Right now, it was mostly the hunger.

"What are you two doing here anyway?" Jason had to eat slowly, lest his insides decide they were unhappy with his choice of food.

"Where else would we be?" Trini tilted her head slightly.

"I don't know, at home? Hanging out with the others. Stuff like that?"

"Jason, out boyfriend is sick." Kimberly poked her boyfriend in the leg, hard. "What kind of girlfriends would we be if we left him out in the cold?"

"Pretty crappy ones." Trini added.

"Besides, what's the point of having two girlfriends if you can't get stuff like this?" Kimberly motioned between herself and Trini. "I mean, there's the obvious eye candy of two hot girlfriends, but that's just a bonus."

"It's just a little bug." Jason reassured them. "I'll be over it in no time. You two should be worried. What if it's some super bug? If it can get me, it can get you."

"Feh." Kimberly waved a dismissive hand before moving to settle in curled up into Jason's side. "Are you kidding me? I have an immune system tougher than steel. I'll be fine."

"Face it, Jason." Trini moved to Jason's other side to mirror their girlfriend's pose. The bed was large enough for two people to sit side by side, but three? Not so much. With Jason in the middle, the girls had to sit half hanging off the side, not that either seemed to mind. "We're not going anywhere."

"This is all your fault, Scott!"

"Ouch, Trini. Using his last name? That's pretty brutal."

"Shut up, Kim!"

"I said I was sorry." Jason apologized for the… what was he up to now, twenty?

"You gave me the plague!" Had Trini not been confined to the bed, she'd probably be trying to strangle Jason right about now. Fortunately for the red ranger, the yellow and pink rangers were both bedridden with the same ailment that befell Jason a few days ago.

It had taken Jason less than a day to overcome it, but Trini was being an unruly patient. Kimberly was amused by the whole situation more than anything.

"Look on the bright side." Kimberly shifted closer to Trini. "Since we're both stuck here, we can cuddle all we want. Think of it, Trini." Kimberly wrapped an arm around her girlfriend. "Infinite cuddles all evening long."

"I'm not your teddy bear." Trini shoved Kimberly away, not as roughly as Jason would have expected, before scooting an inch or two away. Not that she had much room to retreat from under the covers of Kimberly's bed. Hers was even smaller than Jason's.

"You're absolutely right." Kimberly grinned like a loon before launching herself at Trini, wrapping the shorter girl in both her arms this time. "You're not a teddy bear, you're my Trini bear."

Trini said no more, but had no room to escape any further. She settled for crossing her arms across her chest and putting on her best scowl. The result came out looking more humorous than tough.

"Okay, easy ladies." Jason chuckled, he couldn't help it. "Again, I'm sorry, Trini. But if it helps any, you have me to look after you two."

"Aww." Kimberly cooed, smile growing larger. "What would we do without you, Jason?"

"Probably be stuck with that." Jason pointed to an unmoving, and agitated, Trini.

"Seriously." Trini grumbled, looking anywhere except at her boyfriend and girlfriend. "I guess… thanks, Jason. You know, for… you know."

"Hey." Jason shared the soft smile Kimberly wore. "What's the point of having a boyfriend if he doesn't take care of you when you're sick?"

I hate to say it, but this will probably be the last chapter for now. Mostly due to a lack of ideas, I have to take a break from the Power Rangers fandom. I'm either going to take a break from writing, or return to my unfinished Skyrim story.

I might return to this little collection whenever the second movie comes out, whenever that it.