A/N: Here you all go! The Sequel to "That's a Promise"!

Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers. Mr. Saban does and always will.

Note: I'm sorry if this first chapter seems just like the real "Fight Fire with Fire" episode in the series. It is the same thing, but with a Jemily twist to it. I didn't see any Memily in it, but the Jia moment in the beginning (complete with the sparkly background music) just kinda made me snap. X( Sorry, Jia fans.

Also, if you have not read That's a Promise, you probably need to do so. You could read this without reading that but it'll be a bit confusing at first.

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She thought she knew him better than this, but apparently she was wrong. In fact, she didn't know him at all.

Leap of Faith

Chapter 1: Fight Fire with Fire

Emily watched from the front door as, outside, Jayden swung his practice sword and brought down the dummy like it was nothing. She smiled to herself.

It had been fourteen months since her drowning. About five months later, she came back from her home on the farm to complete the team again. According to Mia, she had been in a coma for about two months, occasionally waking up and mumbling something incoherent before falling back asleep. According to Mike, she was also delirious, saying weird things and sometimes things she did not want to ever speak aloud, like the fact that she liked Jayden. A lot. As in, more than a friend.

When she woke up, she took the third month recovering at the Shiba house, where she made some progress, but not enough to begin training again. Thus, she decided to go home and get Serena's advice and help. After a week there, she finally healed her brain damage by herself, with the help of her family and friends and then spent the rest of the last two months training as a Samurai again.

Since last Christmas, she and Jayden would do nearly everything together. They would eat breakfast, go train, and then relax together, but she found herself hanging out with Mike too.

Like the others, Mike had taken Emily's near drowning to a personal level, but, like Jayden, had taken it one level higher when he heard about Chloe. The two were only like brother and sister, because Mike had gotten over the fact that Emily liked Jayden, but Emily could feel when Jayden got jealous. And it happened whenever she hung out with Mike.

But, besides that, Mike didn't make the promise to always stay by her side. Jayden did.

Ever since their fearless leader saved her from drowning, she couldn't help but notice that, if it were possible, she had fallen deeper in love with him than before. And the feelings were only growing day after day. There was no stopping them.

Emily was snapped out of her happy world when a messenger arrived at the gate of the Shiba house. She hid behind the door, afraid of being caught, for she had a feeling that whatever this messenger came for was personal. The messenger bowed slightly to Ji, who had met the stranger, and handed over a letter. The symbol on the letter was familiar.

"The Ranger Emblem…" she softly muttered.

What was the letter for?

Her eyes followed Ji and she sank farther into the door's safe haven as he called out to Jayden and showed him the letter.

Emily couldn't help but see it. As Jayden read the letter, his facial expression turned from focused to worry. Suddenly, she too could feel his worry. As their relationship had grown, they had also developed the ability to feel what the other was feeling.

'What is going on?' she asked herself. 'That was no ordinary postman. That was a servant of the Shiba Clan. It has to be. No one else knows the location of this house. And what about the letter? What could Jayden be so upset about?'

"You're a red-faced liar, liar, pants on fire! You've got a secret."

Negatron's words came back to her like a slap in the face. She was the only one who heard it besides Jayden. Antonio hadn't shown up yet, and Kevin, Mia, and Mike were all on the ground, withering in pain.

At first, it was thought that Jayden's secret was the fact that he knew of the Sealing Symbol, but Emily overheard, by accident, of course, what Daisuke said to Jayden when they went to the Tengen Gate.

"You're lying to them, Jayden."

"I know I am, but they can't know anything. Not yet."

After Negatron's attack, Emily had gone to Jayden and asked about what Negatron meant by Jayden being a "liar". His facial muscles had tensed up and he quickly, but politely, told her to "drop it."

And, after apologizing, she did so without hesitation.

If it hurt Jayden that badly, she would try to understand and let it go.

Apparently, she was right. The fact about the Seal being his secret was just a small part of it, if not the fact that it had nothing to do with it. It was just a cover-up.

If she wasn't mistaken, this could be Jayden's secret right there in that letter. But knowing him, he would hide it, not in his room, but somewhere that no one knew about. He may even burn it.

Sensing that Jayden needed some time alone with Jii, Emily went inside, swearing to herself not to tell anyone what she had just seen or figured out.

As she walked into the deserted kitchen, however, she felt herself tearing up. She thought she knew him better than this. She trusted him enough to spill her secrets (besides the one about her crush on him), so why didn't he trust her enough to tell her his?

Everyone rushed to the common room when they heard the gap sensor. Jii gave them the location and everyone rushed out to stop this new Nighlock. Emily gazed sadly at Jii before sighing and following the others out the door.

'Does she know about the letter?' Jii wondered. 'I'll find out when they get back.'

Fiera was only after Jayden. The others knew why. He had the Sealing Power. Honestly, Emily wasn't sure anymore, but she saw a different logic in Fiera's reasons for only attacking Jayden.

Defeat the Red Ranger, and you defeat the entire team in a heartbeat.

Although they were fighting, Jayden could feel Emily's conflicting emotions. He had always been close to her, no matter what. And now that he could feel what she felt, as their relationship had indeed gone that deep, he couldn't help but wonder what she was fighting about this time.

'But this is no time for distractions,' they both thought. 'It's time to fight and protect them!'

Fiera kept firing at Jayden with her Fire Flashers. Whenever she hit him, he felt a burning pain wherever the wound was and the pain wouldn't subside. Now he was kneeling on the ground, the others in a circle around him, holding his shoulder in pain.

The others were getting hit too, but for some reason, those shots didn't hurt them as bad as they hurt Jayden. In fact, they didn't feel anything at all, just a sharp pain like a swift, yet soft punch to the wound, and then it didn't hurt anymore.

"Listen, you guys need to stop taking hits for me!" Jayden shouted to the others. They really did need to stop doing this. Every time they did this, it pained him. He died a little inside every time they did this.

"Forget it," Mike snapped, always the rebel. "We're a team."

Mia took another hit, this time to her right torso. Antonio immediately helped her back on her feet.

"You okay, Mia?" he asked.

Mia nodded, raising her sword.

Jayden noticed, all of a sudden, with a strike of panic, that Kevin and Emily were the ones getting hit the most. Sure, the Blue Ranger was usually the Red ranger's right-hand man (or rather left-hand, as Kevin was always posed on his left), but that didn't mean he had to get hurt for his leader all the time. Kevin taking hits for him was enough to make him mad.

But Emily getting hurt because of him always made something in him snap.

Especially, since that protective feeling grew ever since she nearly drowned.

And if it was even possible, that protectiveness grew even more when Emily took yet another hit to the chest.

"Dammit," he muttered. 'They're too loyal. Revealing my secret will definitely be tougher than I thought.' He mentally cursed once again. "Time to go Super," he said, activating the Black Box.

Emily was worried for Jayden. The Red Ranger had run off, taking the Nighlock Fiera with him. Sure, he could take care of himself, and Emily had no doubt about that, but this was different somehow. I mean, not many Nighlock could make Jayden de-morph and fall to the ground in pain. Even though, Fiera hadn't made Jayden de-morph yet, Emily felt the up-most, most terrible worry she had ever felt. Somehow, she could tell that each hit Fiera took at him, the more pain he was in. She hadn't felt so worried for anyone before, not even Mike.

If Jayden kept getting hit like that, he was going to die.

Just the thought of that brought tears to Emily's eyes. And these tears were not helping Emily with her vision at all.

"Em, are you okay?" Mia asked. Oh, great, just her luck. Mia had caught her crying, even though she was wearing a helmet.

Emily tried to hide a sniff before answering, "Yeah…I mean, Jayden is hurt really bad, but he's still fighting…"

"Don't worry, Em," Kevin said, turning to her. "He'll pull through. All we have to do is have faith. If we don't, we would be doubting Jayden and we would be doubting his abilities. But most of all, we would be doubting his faith in us, and he doesn't want that. He wants us to stay strong and stay brave and just fight for ourselves and not worry about him. If you doubt him, Em, in reality, you would just be doubting your faith in him. We'd just be hurting him, not physically, mind you, but emotionally, and he feels that way whenever one of we take a hit for him. It's like us taking a hit for him means we're doubting him."

All the others had turned to look at Kevin as he gave his speech. There was a lot of truth in what Kevin said.

"Hear, hear," Antonio quietly said.

Kevin was right, in more ways than one. Emily knew that and she had no doubt that Jayden would definitely pull through for them. Now that she knew how Jayden felt about being protected, she reflected on how she felt whenever she was being protected.

Everyone time one of them saved her, she always felt very sad. She felt as if the others doubted her abilities.

Again, Kevin was right. Emily would not doubt Jayden. Ever. But she couldn't help but feel so worried.

Her worry grew as Jayden, still morphed into Super Mode, came closer, the Super Bullzooka in hand.

"I've more than one trick up my sleeve!" He said, firing the Super Bullzooka as he was sent flying towards his team, de-morphing along the way.

Kevin and Emily were the first by his side. Kevin was congratulating him on a job well done, as Fiera was finally in pain.

Emily, though, could only say, "Oh my God, are you okay? I was so worried." Then, to the others' surprise, including Jayden's, she gave him the tightest hug she had ever given to anyone.

She didn't notice his face go red, but she could hear his soft, gentle, "Don't worry, Em. I'm alright…" yet paid no heed as Fiera behind them was finally gone for good, but suddenly grew.

Jayden noticed it first. "Watch out, guys," he said, pointing a shaky finger on Fiera's Mega Monster form. He handed Kevin the Black Box, which the Blue Ranger proudly took.

"You know the command structure, Kevin. Just go, and don't worry about me," he added, directing the last part at Emily especially. Emily merely nodded and followed Kevin as the team called upon their zords.

The usual command structure was Jayden as the Leader and Kevin as his Second. But whenever he was not able to fight with them, Kevin was the Leader with Emily as his Second. They didn't know it, but Jayden trusted Kevin and Emily the most, even more than Mike and Mia. Although Antonio didn't count, Jayden would always trust his best friend. It's just that Kevin and Emily were his constant advisors, quick to give him ideas and quick to check on him after a battle, especially just now.

He trusted Kevin and Emily with his life.

And he had no doubt they would succeed.

Darkness overpowered him. He felt so weak. He felt like he was going to pass out. He probably was.

"Jayden…" Jayden looked up and saw her, walking towards him with that prideful, yet serious strut she always had. "You did an excellent job. Now, it's my turn to step up. Don't worry. I'll take care of this."

Jayden smiled before letting the darkness finally overtake him.

'I knew you'd show up…'

Fiera had gotten the better of them. She had successfully managed to split them up. They each were in their own individual zords.

Emily looked over at Jayden's pentagonal Lion Zord, locked up in defensive mode. If Fiera wanted to destroy Jayden's zord, she'd have to go through Emily first.

Then, out of a dust cloud, the Lion Zord came flying at the Nighlock. Emily immediately looked over at Jayden, who was still lying on the ground, now out cold. She turned back to the Lion Zord.

"Jayden!" she heard Mike shout.

"But wait, guys," Antonio said. "It's not Jayden. Jayden's over there on the ground, still, where we left him."

"So if he's still down there," Mia started.

"Who's in his Zord?" Kevin finished.

Emily, though, had finally pieced it all together just as the Lion Zord made short work of Fiera with its Pentagonal Fury.

Jayden wasn't the real Red Ranger, whoever was in the Zord was…

Kevin and Emily were immediately right by Jayden's side first once again. It seemed as though he was still awake.

"We did it, Jayden," Mia said.

"Good," he said, letting Mike and Antonio help him on his feet. "Don't worry, guys. I'm fine now."

Emily, though still worried as hell, and Mia sighed in relief, making sure it was loud enough for the guys to hear.

"That's good," Mia said. "We never doubted you for a second, Jayden. We knew you could pull through."

Jayden smiled at her and Emily also felt a pang of jealousy to go with her already sickening worry and conflicting emotions. That certainly did not help.

"And I knew you guys could pull through for me. Thank you all," Jayden said, receiving smiles from the others, except for Emily.

"Come on," Mike interrupted. "Let's get you back home." With that, the others turned to leave, but Emily lagged on behind.

She was worried about Jayden and even expressed it by giving him a big hug, but all she got was "Don't worry. I'm fine." Mia had told him that neither one of them had doubted Jayden, and she got a smile.

In other words, Emily felt like she was living in hell itself. She felt so miserable. She heard soft footsteps somewhere behind her and she immediately turned to see who it was, afraid it was Octoroo or Dayu, or even Deker.

Instead, it was a Red Ranger, a female, not male. When she de-morphed, there stood a girl just a couple inches taller than Emily, complete with blonde hair, almost white, in a ponytail that swung over her right shoulder and blue eyes that seemed to sparkle.

"Hey, Em, you coming?" Mia asked, turning around, making the entire group turn as well. "Woah…" The entire group had seen female Red Ranger de-morph.

The girl slowly walked towards the group, past Emily and toward Jayden.

"Who is this?" Mike asked.

"Hey, little brother," the girl said, smiling. She slowly raised a hand and gentle placed it upon her brother's cheek.

"Hey, Lauren. It's so nice to see you again," Jayden said.

"Woah, 'little brother'?" Antonio said.

"Yeah, Lauren here is my big sister," Jayden said. Something inside Emily snapped, making her realize that she was right. Jayden wasn't the Red Ranger. Lauren was. He was lying to them the entire time.

"How come we never knew about you?" Mike voiced everyone's question.

"Instead of bombarding her with questions," Emily interrupted coming towards the group very slowly, smiling, trying to hide her pain, "let's welcome her to the group instead."

Emily held out her hand for Lauren to shake. "Welcome to the team, Lauren. I'm Emily."

Lauren took the hand. "Thank you, Emily." As she turned to shake the others' hands, Lauren gave Emily a somehow knowing look. It was as if Lauren knew Emily was in emotional pain and hiding it. Emily looked at the ground, as if ashamed that she had been caught by a mere stranger.

Jayden watched the whole thing between Emily and Lauren go down, and even caught the look his sister gave Emily and Emily hanging her head right afterwards. Something was wrong with Emily.

And he knew it was about him.

"The Nighlock never knew Lauren existed. That was their father's plan…" Ji started to explain.

Emily was there physically, but emotionally and mentally, she was somewhere else. She wasn't listening to Ji or the others.

Jayden had lied to them, to her. He had hurt them all and she needed to talk to him about the whole thing. If she didn't, she was afraid that she would die.

Emily knocked on the door of the recovery room. She heard an "Enter" and opened the door. She saw Jayden sitting up in bed, sipping tea, but she stopped when she saw Lauren sitting next to his bed.

She must have been frozen in place for a few seconds because the two called out to her, frightening her a bit.

"Emily!" she heard Lauren say, hearing a bit of worry in the older girl's tone of voice

"Emily, are you okay?" Jayden asked, actually fearing for Emily right now. Emily snapped back to reality and then nodded. "Did you need anything?"

"Oh, I, uh, just wanted to see how you were feeling," Emily quickly said, hoping that it sounded convincing. "But I see you're in good hands, Jayden. I'll leave you two alone." She turned and left the room closing the door behind her.

Jayden turned his gaze from the door to his sister.

"I knew at least one person would get hurt by all this. Somehow, I was really hoping that it wouldn't be Emily. She's got enough on her mind already," Jayden confessed.

"I was watching the battle between you and your team against Fiera. I saw the hug. You really like her, don't you?"

"Great, even my older sister knows, who hasn't been here for even eight hours," Jayden said, lightly teasing her. "I could say the same for you. I know which look you were giving Antonio."

He saw her blush a fair shade of pink.

"Okay, I'll keep your secret if you keep mine."

"Deal."

"But what could be bothering her, really?" Lauren asked. Jayden shrugged his shoulders.

But he really did know what was bothering her. Again, their relationship had roots that deep.

Emily tried to get her mind off of Jayden and his big lie for Lauren's sake. Tonight, yes, that very same night, the team, Antonio mostly, was throwing Lauren a big cookout in celebration of her arrival on the team.

Even though she was hurt, she saw the way Antonio looked at Lauren. He was starting to feel what she already felt for Jayden.

Anyways, she tried to be happy for Lauren. This would be her very first meal with the team and Emily wanted it to be memorable.

The front door clicked open and there stood Jayden, a traveling bag in his hand.

"Hey, Jayden," Antonio said, holding out a plate. "Come and join us."

"No, thank you," he simply said, walking up to Lauren, who met him halfway. He handed her a box, which she opened. The small box contained all of Jayden's disks and the Black Box.

"They're all yours," he said, gently. She nodded and hugged him.

"Good luck out there," she said. "I really want you to stay here, though."

Something in Emily snapped. '…want you to stay here…good luck out there…'

"J-Jay…" Emily shakily asked, tears starting to form in her brown eyes. "A-Are you…leaving?"

Jayden turned to Emily with the most dreadful look on his face. "There can only be one Red Ranger, Em. I'm sorry."

'Saying sorry won't solve a damn thing, you big idiot,' Emily thought, but said nothing.

"Yes, I am leaving," he said, "but I'm being replaced by Lauren. She's your leader now and she always has been and always will be. Follow her and stay with her, like you've all stayed with me."

Emily started shaking her head as the others erupted into loud protests, Antonio and Kevin being the loudest. She would not believe it.

He was leaving…he was leaving…and she would be here all alone…

The others turned to Jii, waiting for him to protest as well, but he didn't. Lauren refused to either.

Emily got up from her tall stool and asked, "When are you coming back?" This got everyone to quiet down.

A look of pure sadness immediately crossed Jayden's blue eyes. "Em…I don't know if I'm coming back at all…"

Jayden saw her reaction. It just brought him down even more. The more he stayed here, the more pain he was putting Emily in. Her hazel eyes were clearly screaming at him, 'Don't go!'

"It has been a great honor fighting alongside all of you. I know you'll make Lauren proud of you just as much as you made me. Kevin, Emily, I know this is the hardest on you two especially, but I just want you two to know…I respect both of you and trust you with my life…and I always will." He walked over to the two he was talking to and gave them both a hug and whispered in their ears, "Thank you…"

Kevin gave Jayden's shoulder a tight squeeze before letting him go. Then, Lauren and Kevin took Emily, who had hugged Jayden back, but would not let go, by the shoulders and gently pulled her away from him, now respecting what Jayden had to do.

Jayden's eyes said it all. 'Em…I really am very sorry.'

He gave Mia a comforting pat on the shoulder and Mike and Antonio fist-bumps.

"See you, man," Antonio said

"We'll miss you," Mia said. Mike only nodded. He didn't take goodbyes that well.

Just as Jayden walked to the front gates out into the real world, Emily started shaking uncontrollably and crying into Lauren's shoulder.

To Be Continued…

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A/N: Well? What do you think? Tell me how I did! Review! How do you like the Jemily twist I gave it? A preview:

Chapter 2: "Runaway"

She wanted to talk to Jayden, but Jii would not let her. But, it was a good thing that Jii was not the Red Ranger. He wasn't their leader. Lauren was.