Mighty Morphin Power Rangers...

She Slowly Dies

DISCAIMER: Power Rangers and characters do not belong to me.

CHAPTER 2: TOMMY...

A FEW WEEKS LATER...

'Dead...gone...not coming back.'

These were the thoughts that ran through Tommy's head as he sat at his desk trying to grade papers.

He couldn't concentrate, his thoughts kept turning to Kimberly who had died a couple weeks earlier, beacause of breast cancer.

Leaving with him a long kept secret and a deathbed confession. She had a baby, his baby and didn't tell him. Their baby had died only days after birth.

He wanted to yell at her for not telling him, but it had been to late. A knock at the door brought him out of his thoughts.

"Tommy?" Said a voice and he looked up...

Katherine Hillard stood in the doorway.

"Hi." Was all Tommy could say. "Are you doing all right?" Kat asked. "Y...no. She had our baby without telling me and then she dies." Tommy said a hint of anger and sadness in his voice.

"I know." Kat told him. "How could she do this? Why did she tell me now and not when she had our baby?" Tommy asked. "Maybe she thought she should tell you before she died." Kat said.

'Died, she had said and Tommy didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to believe Kimberly was dead.'

"Tommy." Kat said again and he looked up. "What?" Tommy asked. "Let's get out of here. There's something I want to show you." Kat said holding out her hand to him.

"What do you want to show me?" Tommy asked as he cleaned up his desk and gathered his things. "That there is still a life to live." Kat said and he took her hand and let her lead him out the door of his classroom.

"Where are you taking me?" Tommy asked. "It's a surprise." Was all Kat would tell him.

After dropping his things into his car, he let Kat lead him to her car and got in. Kat drove and Tommy soon fell asleep. He woke up to Kat calling his name.

"Where are w..." Tommy started and then saw where they were.

The lake in Angel Grove where he had first asked Kimberly out.

"Why are we here?" Tommy asked turning to Kat the pain in his eyes. "So you can say good bye." Kat said as she got out of the car. "I already said good bye." Tommy said not moving.

"No, you didn't get a chance. Maybe you can get some of your questions answered." Kat said and Tommy reluctantly got out of the car.

He walked to the spot where he had first asked Kimberly out and sat down on the rock.

"Why did this have to happen? Why didn't you tell me about our baby? Somebody tell me why! How can I say good bye with no answers?" Tommy shouted, but there was not answer.

He sat there for what felt like hours, then feeling a little better and exhausted he went back to Kat's car.

"Do you feel any better?" Kat asked. "A little, but I still can't say good bye. I didn't get any answers, Kat." Tommy told her.

"Why don't you sleep on it? Maybe the answers will come to you that way." Kat suggested

"Just like I could say good bye coming to this place?" Tommy asked anger in his voice. "

Tommy, I'm sorry. I thought it would help." Kat said pleading for him to understand.

On the way back to Reefside the ride was silent. Kat dropped Tommy off at his car and

headed back to Angel Grove to her apartment. Tommy drove home and fell into bed only pulling off his shoes before he fell asleep.

Dream *

Tommy stood at a gravesite and looked down at it. The name on the

gravestone read:

Gracie Ann Oliver

"She looked just like you." Said a voice,Tommy jumped and spun around.

"Wh...how..." Tommy stuttered. "How is this possible? I don't know." Kimberly told him. "Why didn't you tell me about Gracie?" Tommy Asked.

"As I said before you were with Kat and I was scared. She died before I had a chance to tell you." Kimberly said.

"I can't say good bye to you." Tommy confessed as tears fell down his face. "We have to, Tommy. You'll see me again and just remember I'm with our daughter." Kimberly told him with a final kiss.

* End dream.

Tommy woke up still feeling Kimberly's lips on his. Then he realized the pain and weight on his shoulders lifted.

He had done it, he had told her good bye.

"Good bye, Kimberly. I still wish you would have told me." Tommy whispered and fell into a sleep and dreaming of first meeting Kimberly, asking her out and when he had surprised her becoming the white ranger.

It had been what felt like a lifetime ago and to him it was.

THE END