pink is so out -tommy-

[kim]

She had not been home most of the day instead she had been out shopping when things had changed. Her whole body shuddered and she found herself a different person to say the least the two had been talking throughout the day in her head as she changed from her pink wardrobe to a black one she was comfortable in and then started on her way home. Turning the corner to her house she parked and got out with several bags her blue eyes now black as she tilted her head and when they opened again they were normal again. best not to let him know right away she said calmly to only the voice in her head.

Walking inside the house she walked into her bedroom and fixed the closet where the pink tops had been now were black ones mostly the same though as she changed and slipped it on she walked down the stairs and looked around the house and then got something to drink Tommy you around dear? she asked her voice soft as she walked down into the lair and checked the screens and paused as she saw Jason who had been in contact it would seem and paused as she gazed at him on the screen a smile playing on her lips as she realized who now was in that body.

Another image bothered her though as she sat down and opened up the file and went through it than she froze two rangers she recognized because of the symbols on their suits…Demeter and she believed Athena lovely so they were around. Keeping her head down she felt her hair fall over her eyes and she took a breath and calmed herself down. There was little she could do now no she would have to wait and see what happened as she closed the file she stood up and turned to the steps.

Even now she felt better than she had in a long time as she opened the safe she unhooked her power morpher and gazed down at it and then put it away and locked it next to the white tiger coin and other powers that had been set aside and shook her head and backed away. One door closed and another one opened turning to head back upstairs to bed for the night she was not paying attention to what was going on around her.

[tommy]

Tommy was lost in his own little world, but then again, with him that was not out of the ordinary. It seemed as though he spaced out a lot lately. He had gone through a lot lately, so it was almost excusable. First there was the issue of his sister being killed by a fellow ranger. Rogue or not, it still hurt. He still missed Kelly, though those feelings of sadness came less and less as time passed.

Then there was his illness. The one that almost killed him when hundreds of monster attacks could not. Tommy had honestly thought he WAS going to die, and only the miracle of modern medicine had saved his bacon. He was still weak sometimes, something he would never admit to Kim and definitely not Jason, but he managed.

Finally there was the issue of Chelsea and her sister. Tommy was more than happy to take the girls in and give them shelter, support, and love, but he also was more than happy to beat the shit out of their asshole, low life father who had inflicted so much pain on them. Chelsea had finally confided to Kim, who had confided to him the full extent of what the man had done to his own daughter, and it took every bit of self restraint that he possessed to not go and kill the man. He had settled on simply seeing him behind bars where he would be for a very long time, hopefully being done to him by Bubba what he had done to Chelsea. Chelsea had been on the road to recovery, or so he had thought, but when he had gone into her room that day and saw all the blood....

Sighing to himself, he continued to prepare for bed in the bathroom he shared with his wife adjacent to their bedroom. He had spent a full day at the hospital with Chelsea and Kim had engaged in the only kind of therapy that she knew...shopping. It was good to know that some things never changed.


He finished what he was doing and exited the bathroom, turning off the light as he did so. Kim was already in the bedroom and wearing...black? Where did that come from. In all his time knowing her, he had never, ever known his wife to go a single day without wearing some kind of pink. Maybe it was her underwear.

That last thought had him smirking, it had been a long time since he and Kim had "had fun". With everything going on, who had time? Still, he had heard that this was the best form of stress release.

Thinking happy thoughts, he made his way over to Kim, but before he could get to her, he stopped in his tracks. Something was wrong, and it wasn't just the black clothing. Years of fighting aliens and malicious beings, had heightened his sense of danger. No longer thinking of having fun, he approached Kim cautiously.

"Kim, is something wrong Beautiful? Something I should know about"?

[kim]

She had been about to head up the steps when she felt him there Tommy even now her hart fluttered slightly and she glanced at him and gave a soft smile as she took a breath. Yes she knew what she would have to do was not easy and she paused and walked up and hugged him just fine Tommy she said softly her voice the same as it had always been. Her eyes were a bit darker but she seemed to be okay otherwise right now she could pass as okay as Thantos left her alone for the moment.

Sitting down by the computer she paused why is everything okay? she asked true concern showing in her voice. Yes she was still herself at least but the influence was there as well in her as she listened to the voice that would talk to her as she checked the screens her eyes on them. She knew Tommy was always good with what he did and she doubted she would be able to fool him long not when he had picked up that she had changed already no….not long at all and she hated lying to anyone much less him.

She fought with herself in her head as the voice tried to talk her out of what she wanted to do but in the end she had made up her mind as she got up and walked to him she hugged him gently wrapping her arms around him. Her strength alone had become stronger and she could feel it in her body even now you…should sit down she said after a moment her voice calm even now. She had tried to go over how good or bad this could go in her mind but in the end she had no idea as she looked into his eyes before turning around her eyes were jet black.

She had made her choice on the way home weather she liked it or not Thantos had made it clear to her. She paused something happened when I was on my way home… she said after a few moments as she looked at the monitor I’m fine really Tommy…. I promise she said softly showing how unsure she was she had a 2nd voice in her head that was talking to her at that moment she leaned back and looked at the screens and brought up the scenes from the battles that had been happening take a look at this she said after a moment.

The video showed Kat stabbing Jason and then lightning striking and when the smoke cleared a red ranger It seems Zedd was the cause of this… she said as the screen froze on Jason when he had been holding a green ranger. Pausing she typed something up and zoomed Tommy…the symbol there is Greek and it’s for the Titan Lord Kronos… she said quietly her voice soft…almost normal at that moment and he’s not the only one she paused as she looked down and moved her shirt off her shoulder…a tattoo was on her shoulder of a scythe…as she looked at him sadly...one thing was clear though she was not evil.

[tommy]

In nearly ten years of marriage, Tommy had thought that he knew everything about Kim. He thought he knew her moods, her thoughts, her feelings, and most importantly perhaps, he thought that he knew when he was in deep shit with her and when to back off. But this, this was new and he was not quite sure on how to handle it. His wife was normally more...perky than this. Even when she was not herself, she usually managed to at least fake some kind of cheerfulness.

This was new though. He could not put his finger on it, but something just seemed....wrong. Something was wrong with his wife, and he resolved to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible.

He fought the urge to stiffen when she came over to embrace him, not wanting to give away to her that he knew that something wasn't quite right. Gradually however, he relaxed, or at least enough to throw her off. He had time, he hoped to get some answers. "something happened when I was on my way home…" That statement did nothing to ease his fears, even if it was followed immediately by Kim's reassurance that she was fine. With their lives, anything that happened out of the ordinary was cause to be concerned.

He pushed Kim out slightly, to about arms length, and looked deep into her eyes, trying to gauge just what the heck was going on, and what he saw there concerned the hell out of him. Instead of the brown eyes that he had stared lovingly into for as long as he could remember, they were...black? Okay, something was really off here. He was just about to outright demand some answers, when Kim distracted him.

She showed him a video of Jason being stabbed by...Kat?! Concern for his best friend immediately came over him, and was only stopped from acting right away when he saw the rest of the video. The smoke cleared and there was a red ranger...Jason? holding a green ranger. But it could not be Jason, he was gold...wasn't he? Tommy was all kinds of confused, and what did Chronos have to do with this? He knew about the Olympian rangers of course, and this fairly reeked of something that they would know about.

"What does this mean Kim?" Tommy deliberately held off on calling her Beautiful for now. There were some strange things going on, and he wanted answers now.

[kim]

She could feel he was pulling away even before she had shown him the video. She closed her eyes and leaned back and let him watch it and then explained it. A moment later her eyes opened brown as they would have been normally and she fixed her shirt and stared at the floor for the moment and bit her bottom lip and brushed her hair from her eyes. It was all typical of her at that moment she acted like she should have as he finally turned to her she paused and knew what she would have to do weather she wanted to or not he needed to know the truth.

The Olympians…they were gods in the past and the titans were the ones before them, it seems that Zedd knew Jason carried the red titan crystal inside of him and woke the titan up she paused as she thought back and listened to the voice as he told her it and she spoke Kronos…sent out a shock wave to wake up the other titans and one is in me as we speak…Thantos the Greek titan of death she closed her eyes and sighed softly and looked up at him his own words…death is never good or evil it cannot pick a side as it must be impashall her voice was barely above a whisper as she explained it to him.

Moving out of the way she got up and walked back and forth for a few moments her brown eyes never leaving Tommy at that moment. She didn’t want to lose him and she still loved him and it showed in her eyes weather they were brown or black in color were not here to hurt people Tommy just do our job… she said quietly and bit her lip her voice nervous as she spoke to him her eyes soft and she put her hands inside of her pockets she had not even realized that she had spoken to him as if they were one in the same person which they were.

Tommy…I hope you don’t see me as a monster now she was terrified that she would lose him right now and it showed.

[tommy]

The Olympians…they were gods in the past and the titans were the ones before them, it seems that Zedd knew Jason carried the red titan crystal inside of him and woke the titan up...
The Olympians…they were gods in the past and the titans were the ones before them, it seems that Zedd knew Jason carried the red titan crystal inside of him and woke the titan up

Tommy ran his hands through his hair in frustration. This was getting to be too much. Not only did they have a new evil to deal with on top of the ones that they already had, but his best friend was now a tool of that new evil. he had actually started to lose track of how many times he had been turned evil. When he was back to normal, IF he got turned back, Tommy planned to give him a lot of shit about it.

He was already pacing, looking for some clue as to what to do next, when Kim gave him another bombshell, and when she did, he felt as though his world had gone out from under him. Kronos…sent out a shock wave to wake up the other titans and one is in me as we speak…Thantos the Greek titan of death.... his own words…death is never good or evil it cannot pick a side as it must be impashall Well that at least explained her new color choice.

He stopped his pacing and looked right at her. "So what does this mean Kim? Are you evil now? Are you fighting against us? Are you ever going to wear pink again? He added this last part as kind of a joke, but the fact was that he really liked seeing her in pink. He did not respond to her comment about hurting people, he thought it was pretty obvious and did not need expounding on. When she she voiced her concern about him thinking she was a monster now, he honestly did not know how to respond. He heard the pain and sadness in her voice and knew that he should go and comfort her, despite what she just told him, but he couldn't....he just couldn't.

So he did the only thing he could think of doing at the moment. He turned and left the room. He needed time, and he needed space.

[kim]

She had been hoping that he would come and hug her and whisper that everything would be okay. As she had stared at him instead he had turned and walked up the steps and left her there her eyes following him for a few moments and then she looked down tears running down her cheeks as she bit her lip. She had always loved him and now he had just walked away as she took a breath she curled up on a couch downstairs and sobbed quietly for a while before she was able to rouse herself to get up and wash her face hoping the tears had not messed things up to badly.

Feeling like her heart had been ripped out she walked up the stairs her eyes closed as she went to her room and grabbed the pink shirt. Sliding it on she took a breath and hoped it would be enough at that moment. As she walked down the stairs she stopped where she saw his shadow or what she had hoped would be it and stared at it her brown eyes soft yet sad almost threatening yet again and she looked down and remembered what she had thought when she had first spoken to him all of those years ago.

Even than he had been her white knight always there when they needed each other as she leaned against the wall she looked at the fire and paused swallowing the lump in her throat as she walked past him to a picture which hung on the fireplace all of them…they were all there Tommy, Jason, Zack, Trini, Billy and herself her eyes soft as she held it close and took a breath the good old days she said her voice barely above a whisper she had never even turned around to see if he had been there she slowly set it down and looked down at the fire.

no matter what happens…I could never fight you she said her voice level even if he was not there she was sure of it as she started to turn around tears once again running down her cheeks.

[tommy]

He had regretted walking out on her almost as soon as he had done it, but his stubborn pride had prevented him from going back to her. In his defense, she had just told him a hell of a lot all at once, and did she really expect him to just be completely fine with it right away? If she knew him at all, she would know that sometimes he just needed to get away and process everything. He would be back, eventually, and things would always be made right again. Except in this case, he was not so sure that that would be the case.

He stared at a blank spot on the wall above the fireplace. A fireplace that he had built with his own two hands, along with the rest of the house. They had built a happy home here, and the only thing missing was kids, something that they both wanted, but for some reason had not been able to have so far. They filled that void with the rangers that they mentored, calling them their kids, and in the case of Chelsea and Kelsey, that would soon be a literal term.

But was all of that a lie? Was the happiness that filled their home just a front for the poison that lay underneath? Chelsea and Kelsey were still suffering from the abuse that their father had inflicted upon them, and he and Kim spent many nights comforting both of them after the nightmares, and then there was the legal battle that they were going to have to go through, though that would be worth it. Then there was his dear sister Eliza. Something had happened to her after Kelly's death, and she had gone off of the deep end. Blowing off her family and doing God knew what. He knew that he was going to have to do something about that, and soon. Chelsea had just told him that she was a stripper at a local club. and the very thought made Tommy sick.

And now Jason was possibly evil and his wife was...well she said that she was not evil, but he was not so sure of that at the moment. He wanted to believe her, he wanted to give her a chance, but it was so damn hard right now. Why him? Why had fate chosen to put him in the middle of the biggest pile of shit in the universe. Was it because it was thought that he could handle it? Well guess what? Right now, he really couldn't.

He knew that she had entered the room before she came up to him. Years of knowing her had given him a kind of sixth sense as far as she was concerned. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a flash of pink. Curious, he turned and the site that greeted him made his heart and his resolve melt all at once. She was wearing pink again, and looking at the picture that he knew to be of the "original six". She whispered something about the good times, and Tommy had to agree. Those had to be some of the best times of his life, and he treasured those memories above all others.

no matter what happens…I could never fight you It was an obvious statement, but right now, he needed to hear it. Still ashamed of himself, he crossed over to her, taking the picture out of her hands and putting it back onto the fireplace, he took her into his arms and just held her, trying to hold back his own tears while soaking up hers. "I'm sorry Beautiful. I never should have left like that. Whatever happens, we will face it together."

[kim]

She was readying to go and stay the night with Chelsea when she heard someone get up and closed her eyes softly. She figured that he was leaving and was about to say that she would when suddenly the picture was taken from her hands and a moment later arms were wrapped around her and she slowly stepped into them and hugged him tightly burying her head against his chest as she sighed quietly her body shaking for a moment or two as she leaned against him her eyes closed. He was there and that was all that mattered to her at that moment.

I love you she said the words her voice soft as she looked into his eyes and finally managed a small smile on her lips as she relaxed slowly. Those words had never rang more true at the moment she did and she would do anything to prove it to him. Even now she had her children that she would love having already in her mind adopted the girls and then she would have her rangers that were basically family. Weather it was Conner who was always in their fridge or Ethan hacking their computers and finally her sister Kira it was all amazing. But in the end they were all her family and she wouldn’t change that for anything.
Focusing on him she kissed his cheek gently and sighed how often had they stood right where they were right now happy and sad moments had both been tough on them but in the end they were still always together in the end. In the end she knew he had done what was needed to take his time and deal with his thoughts and worries. She would be here for her family that much no matter what would never change. Slowly stepping up to him she looked into his eyes and gave a smile.

Even now her eyes shown how much she loved him as she moved back into his arms and rested her head against his shoulder and just laid it there her arms holding him tighter than ever showing a bit of the strength that she had been given she bit her lip and loosened the hold and swallowed and looked up into those eyes that she had loved for so many years and swallowed.

don’t let me go she whispered to him after a few moments.

[tommy]

It was times like this where it was easy to forget all of the bad stuff going on. Easy to forget the evil, the destruction, the pain and suffering. Right now, all he wanted to focus on was the beautiful woman in front of him, holding her in his strong arms. As he looked into her eyes, he could even look past the color change and what it signified, and see the love that she still held for him. How had he been so foolish? Once again, he had to blame his own stupid pride and stubbornness. He vowed to spend the rest of his life making sure that she knew just how much he loved her.

If they made it that far that is.

He pushed all of those bad thoughts aside, concentrating instead on the woman in front of him. She begged him not to leaver her, and he cringed at the thought that she had to beg. His own wife should have have to beg for him to stay with her. At that thought, he at once did something that he always tended to do in these situations, he started to blame himself. If he had been a better ranger, a better husband, perhaps things could have been different.

Still, he had to remind himself that it was best to not dwell in the past. He had to live for the future. Keeping that in mind, he got a sudden idea. Without saying a word, he inclined his head toward the bedroom, hoping his meaning was clear to his wife. There would be time later to worry about what was going on in their life. Right now, he just wanted to show Kim in every way possible just how much he loved her.

[kim]

As she rested there she could feel his arms wrap tighter around her and she curled her head against his neck as she sighed and then felt him motion into the room as she looked up and gave a small smile and kissed his lips slowly running her hand along his cheek in a soft and usual loving manner she nodded and smiled softly three minutes she said after a moment and looked at the room and walked into it her eyes soft as she closed the door behind her and walked into the closet.

Sifting through the cloths she looked around and spotted what she was looking for and slipped out of her cloths and into the new garments that she had bought before this…needless to say what was there was VERY hot pink and that brought a smile to her lips as she slipped it on and then checked the mirror quickly before she walked over and opened the door just a hair and stuck her hand out where he could see nothing else and motioned for him to come into the room before she stepped back into the darkness that wrapped around her like a blanket.

Sitting down on their bed she crossed her legs and waited patiently. She had to admit she liked surprising him and giving him a few smiles here and there. It was this time that she felt like her old self the god having gone to sleep leaving her to do what she would she would take it soon she would have to do the duties that were meant to be hers…but now it was all about her and Tommy in her eyes the world could wait.