Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers Dino Charge. This story is fan-made.

The downside to having a real life caveman was that he could eat her out of house and home. Kendall couldn't count the number of times she had gone grocery shopping for Koda, filled up the basket, and still found she needed to make a second or third run for the week. However, the upside to having a real life caveman was Kendall could make genuine displays of prehistoric life from the Pleistocene. Koda often helped her set up various exhibits to make them look similar to the environments he knew, allowing them to be more true to history and allowing Koda to actually feel a sense of knowledge. In a world that was still very unfamiliar, having one part of the museum where Koda was an expert, even above Kendall, really helped him feel like less of an outsider.

With Kendall's leg still freshly broken, Koda had offered to help her with any tasks she needed doing around the museum. Kendall offered to let him update the display and watched while leaning on her crutches. While she trusted Koda would be accurate in his set up, and his details for the information cards would be right, Kendall liked staying close by. She liked learning from Koda.

As Koda moved around a foam boulder to form his cave, Kendall stood just outside the display and took notes of what he was saying. Anything he knew would be useful for current or future information cards. She had just been jotting down notes of how a cave would be set up correctly when she heard someone rushing down the halls. The museum wasn't open to the public yet, so Kendall figured this had to be an emergency involving her staff or one of the displays. She was shocked when she turned around and saw her brother was the one making his way over.

"Kendall!"

"Jeremy?" she frowned. She was surprised he was here, surprised he was hugging her. He lived out of State and had no plans to return until Christmas. "What... but..."

"I heard from mom," Jeremy stepped away from her to look down at her leg, wincing when he saw the cast. "Does it hurt?"

"I... What?" Kendall frowned, still shocked at the sight of her brother. Jeremy shook his head.

"What are you doing up anyways?" he asked her. "If it's broken, you've got to keep it elevated. Do you have a chair or a stool or something you can sit on? Why are you at work?"

"Jeremy, what are you doing here?"

"Mom said you were doing a dig in a cave when it collapsed. She said you were in and out of the hospital last week because of the break and headaches."

"It's no big deal, Jeremy," Kendall shook her head. "Nothing worth flying across the country for."

"No big deal?" Jeremy frowned and looked his sister up and down one more time to assess the injuries. He had to admit thinking he would find more than just a couple of healing bruises and a broken leg. He thought there would be cuts, sprains, bleeds and heaving bruising. Kendall looked like she had been quite lucky considering. But her lack of injuries did very little to ease his mind of what could have happened, as well as what did. "You were in a cave and it collapsed on top of you."

"Yes, but..."

"That's a big deal in my books! I'd have walked across the country if I had to. Fortunately, we have planes so I didn't but... why didn't you mention any of this?"

"When? In the hundreds of conversations we've had since you took off?"

"A phone works two ways, Kendall. Have you ever tried calling me? Or anyone, for that matter?"

Kendall turned back to the display, putting her focus on Koda's work instead of her brother. But Jeremy stepped in front of her, blocking her view. Kendall sighed loudly.

"Jeremy..."

"So I'm the bad guy?" he asked. "You leave home for eight years. No calls, no emails, nothing. I make a life for myself with my wife and daughter in a home and state we all love. Then you suddenly come back, out of the blue, and I'm the bad guy because I'm gone? Mom wasn't exactly thrilled either when I told her I was leaving, but she stills picks up the phone at least once a week to talk to me."

"You want a sticker?"

"I want to be your brother," Jeremy looked her in the eyes as he spoke, desperate to get his point across. A lot had gone on in his family before his parents decided to foster Kendall. They had run the idea of a new, younger sibling by him before making any big decisions and Jeremy had been happy about it. He had been rooting for a younger brother. Someone he could lead through life and have look up to him. His parents wanted a daughter, though, and had their heart set on that idea. Jeremy came around, fortunately, just as Kendall arrived at his home. He liked the idea of having a little sister – someone to protect and spoil. Kendall was none of that, though. She was independent and lonely. Jeremy tried to open her up, but he didn't get a lot of time with her.

When he heard she was finally back in his parents' lives and that she would show up for that fateful dinner, Jeremy had been excited. Perhaps this was his chance to finally be a real older brother. He had given Kendall a hard time, but only because he wanted her to really stick around. He didn't want to grow attached to her, or the idea of having a little sister, if she was just going to take off again at the first sign of trouble. But it seemed Kendall was back for good, and Jeremy wanted to make the relationship last. It was difficult to do from the other side of the country, but Jeremy was willing to put the effort in.

"I want to be your brother," he told her. "I want to help out."

"From across the country?"

"I moved out for work. They know I have family here in California, so they pay for a few trips back and forth every year. And I get paid enough; I can afford the odd visit here and there."

"Odd visit?"

"Yeah, like this one. Where you need me," Jeremy pointed to her leg. "Looks, it's not ideal, alright. I miss mom and dad like crazy sometimes and I was kind of bummed to leave just after we hit it off so well. But... I'll be back. I'll come back as often as I can. You just need to give me somewhere to come back to. This is a two way street, Kendall."

"You really came all this way for a broken leg?"

"Booked time off work," Jeremy nodded. "I'm here for a week, if you want me to stay. I know you live alone. Mom says your museum team is taking care of you but... I kind of want to do that."

"Do you know the first thing about working in a museum?"

"I meant at home:" Jeremy said, "cooking meals, doing a few chores, taking you to doctor's appointments if you need it. Or want it."

"You want to take care of me?"

"Yeah," Jeremy scratched the back of his neck nervously. "I mean, you're my sister. That's what we do. I figured, we could also take the time to get to know each other a bit more."

Kendall smiled softly, "I'd like that."

"Great. So, um, how about you leave the rest of this museum stuff to that special team mom was talking about and put that leg up for a bit."

"Work relaxes me," Kendall told him. "But, there is a wheelchair in my office. You push me around, I'll give you a tour."

"Sounds good," Jeremy nodded his head. Kendall smiled then tapped on the glass. She figured Koda had overheard everything. He was the protective type, and liked to know what was going on with Kendall at all times. But she called him out of the display to let him know she would be spending the rest of the day with her brother. Koda looked to Jeremy a little skeptically, but Kendall seemed happy so he nodded.

"Take care of Kendall," he told her brother. "I never too far."

"We'll swing around for dinner," Kendall promised the blue Ranger. Koda nodded. He seemed happy enough with that so he let Kendall and her brother go. As they walked off, Jeremy looked to Kendall.

"I thought I'd take you out to dinner."

"Dinners are important to Koda," Kendall said. "He's... he doesn't have family in town. A while back, the two of us promised to look out for each other."

"Oh. Well, the guy is pretty cool, I guess. Is he still doing that whole caveman act? I told a few of my coworkers about it and he's a big hit."

"Uh, yeah," Kendall nodded her head and glanced over her shoulder for just a second to look at Koda as he finished up the caveman exhibit. "He's still pretty into his whole caveman... jokes."

"Sweet!"