Broken Soul

-1Disclaimer – I do not own any of these beautiful people and if I did Tommy and Jason would be locked away from everyone and be sort of forced to make many private videos for slash crazed fans like myself.

A/N - Okay guys, I had a few reviews about why no one knew what was going on with Tommy. Well to answer one person’s question, he wasn't kidnapped a bunch of times yet considering he's still the green ranger so technically he's only been nabbed once by Rita and to answer the other question is that he had been missing for only a few hours plus add in the fact that his character is known for his lateness and faulty memory the others wouldn't rush to the command center to find him for not showing up for a meeting at a public place one afternoon when he's been avoiding them anyhow. So other than that on with the show.

Summary - Jason thinks about him and Tommy and comes to a decision.

About Time

Jason was busy staring at his ceiling. He had left with Trini after waiting at the youth center for three hours. Kim had keep saying that he’ll show up but after the first hour and an half Jason knew that Tommy had either forgotten about it or was not ready to talk to them. He remembered when Tommy could talk to him about everything, but now everything had changed after that day. He was starting to regret telling Tommy that they should stay away from each other. Jason was so used to having Tommy around him that he missed him.

‘I know that I love Tommy, but can I be in love with him?’ Jason thought. He was aroused from his thought with a knock on his door.

“Jason, can I come in?” asked Jason’s mother from the door.

“Yeah, mom.” Jason called back as he sat up and went to unlock his door. He turned and went back to sit on his bed as his mother came through the door and looked at her son. The stress and worry etched on his face.

“Jason, tell me what happened.” Allison Scott said.

“What do you mean? Nothing happened.” Jason argued.

“That’s not what I see. I see my son with full of stress and worry all this week, which is not what I usually see. Also, you are a terrible liar and know better than lie to me.” Allison said with her eyes saying that she was not going to leave this room. With a final breath, Jason retold his mother with all the events that had happened that did not involve ranger business.

“So after a while, Trini and I left, and I have this bad feeling that something bad is going to happen and no one has called me to tell me that Tommy came by or anything.” Jason said as he finished recalling the events to his mother. Allison was quite surprised with what her son was telling her, but it did not surprise her. She had seen first hand how strong Jason’s and Tommy’s friendship grew.

“Well do you know how you feel about him.” she asked.

“That is what scares me the most mom. I love him but I don’t know if I’m in love with him.” Jason sighed.

“Well I have an idea. I want you to close your eyes.” Allison said.

“Mom, I don’t think this is the time to be praying.” Jason spoke sarcastically.

“We’re not praying. Now close your eyes and think.” Allison scolded. Jason closed his eyes. “I want you to think of a time, any time at all, where it was just you and Tommy. A time when you were happy just being with him." Allison spoke.

A memory quickly popped into Jason’s head. The first time he had made Tommy laugh. He remembered being entranced by the sound of pure joy coming out of his friend's mouth, and the happiness filling him knowing that he was the cause of it.

"Now think of a time when you didn't want to let Tommy go."

His mother's words prompted a scene change, and now Jason saw him and Tommy, clad in their work-out outfits, being stopped by Kim, who had finally choked up the courage to ask Tommy out for a date. Jason never understood the relief that passed through him when Tommy had turned her down.

Allison spoke again, but her voice became a background noise as the memories flashed through Jason's mind. Tommy smiling, Tommy determined, Tommy concentrating, Tommy sleeping. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. Dozens of images passed through Jason's mind, along with emotions he remembered feeling but never thought about.

Allison stopped the flow of memories with a new request, "Now go back to that day. Ignore the emotional shock and just feel it again."

Jason concentrated. The image came quickly enough, but he focused on blocking out the emotions he sensed. He could see Tommy in front of him, shifting uncertainly. He saw the fear and longing in Tommy's eyes while he told Jason about his feelings. At that moment Jason opened his eyes and carefully looked at his mother.

“We’ll talk about it later, right now I think you want to go see him and…” Allison was interrupted by the phone ringing. She answered the cordless phone on Jason’s desk.

“Hello. Yes, he is, hold on a minute.” Allison spoke into the phone. “Jason, its Kim and she sounds like its something bad has happened.” Allison said as she handed the phone to Jason as she heard her pager go off and went to go get it.

“Kim, what’s wrong?” Jason asked as the bad feeling he told his mom came back.

“It’s Tommy. Me and Trini were at Kat’s and the doorbell rang and Kat went to answer it. After that Kat called for us and when we got downstairs we saw her barely holding onto Tommy. He was unconscious and bleeding all over, Jason. We got him to the hospital as fast as we could. While we were busy calling Billy and Zack, they paged their on-call doctor to get here.” Kim said frantically. Jason remembered his mom was the doctor on call at the Angel Grove hospital.

“Kim, try to stay calm. I’m on my way there.” Jason said as he hung up. “Mom!” He called out.

“Jason, I was just paged by the hospital. I have to go.” Allison called out.

“Wait a minute!” Jason called as he rushed to the front door.

“Jason, what’s the matter now.” Allison spoke shocked as Jason ran towards the car.

“Tommy’s in the hospital. That’s why they called you. Kim said he was bleeding all over and was unconscious and Kat‘s door. He needs your help, mom.” Jason spoke as tears began to form in his eyes. Allison, seeing the tears in her son’s eyes, quickly got in the car with her son and drove as fast as she could to the hospital.

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(15 minute drive later)

Jason and his mother rushed through the doors of the hospital and separated, Allison to the ER and Jason to his friends. They were all worried for their friend as they waited on Jason’s mother to come out and tell them what is wrong with their friend. Jason was the worst of the group, pacing back and forth and talking to himself. Everyone tried to calm him down, but nothing they did calmed him. Kat remembered what had happened when one of her old friends had to go to the hospital. Jason was acting just like her friend’s boyfriend, scared that he would never see him again. She smiled for a brief second before turning as Jason’s mother came out of the ER after being in there for over four hours, but Allison Scott was wearing scrubs as she came out of the ER.

“We had to take Tommy to the OR. He had several broken ribs, bruising and deep cuts around several areas, internal bleeding in the abdominal area as well as in the rectal area.” Allison spoke as she looked onto the group of teens as she told them of what damage their friend had received. “We manage to stop all of the internal bleeding and bandaged his ribs. He will be in a great deal of pain and will have to stay in the hospital for a week or two.”

Kim and Trini started to cry as Zack and Billy gather them into their arms. Kat sat up from her seat and placed a caring hand on Jason’s shoulder, knowing that he would need someone to help comfort him.

“May we see him?” Kat asked Mrs. Scott.

“Yes, but only two visitors at a time until he’s awake.” She answered. Jason looked onto the group and thought they should go see him first as he was about to sit down.

“Why don’t you and Kat go first, Jason?” Zack spoke, stopping Jason from sitting.

“You sure about that?” Jason asked.

“Yeah, Tommy would want to see you and Kat first if he woke up.” Zack said reassuring him. Jason nodded his head as he and Kat followed his mother to Tommy’s room. She stopped at room 413.

“I have to warn you. He won’t look like what you are used to him looking like.” Allison said as she looked at the two teens. She slowly opened the door and led them in before closing the door behind them. Before them, covered in bandages, was Tommy. His face swollen with bruises around his eye and mouth. Jason couldn’t stop the tears from falling. He finally figured out his feelings and was going to find him and tell him, but now here he was looking onto the person who captured his heart covered in bruises and bandages. He quickly grabbed a chair and placed it beside the bed. Kat stood beside Jason and looked as Jason carefully placed Tommy’s hand in his and held it.

“You’re in love with him aren’t you?” She asked carefully.

“Yes and no one will ever do this to Tommy again.” Jason spoke.

“About time.” Kat said as they continued to watch their friend carefully.

To Be continued….