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

It was her first time coming face to face with Chase since the night at the bar. She wasn't sure if he had started drinking after she left or if he had taken her advice and avoided using alcohol to cope with missing his family. Not that it was her business, really. Chase was a grown man. If he could be trusted to fly across the world and live on his own for several months at a time, he could be trusted to handle himself around alcohol.

Still, the thought of Chase drinking, especially to cope with negative emotions worried Kendall deeply. It was how she lost her mother and the reason her life had been turned upside down. While in the end, meeting the Fishers had changed her life for the better, alcohol had turned a once not-great, but still rather decent mother into one who couldn't care less about her daughter. So long as there was food on the table, four walls, a roof, and her daughter spent the day in school, Mrs. Morgan was happy with her mothering abilities.

Alcohol had stolen her mother from her. She didn't want it to steal Chase from her too.

But that wasn't why she was nervous about seeing Chase again. He had confessed his love for her at the bar that night. Not the friendship kind of love that they had settled on a few months back. Chase admitted to loving her deeply and romantically. He flew all the way around the world to be with her. He would do anything for her. That kind of love sent Kendall in a panic. She didn't know how to react or even how she felt in return. She knew Chase was a good friend, maybe a little more, but did she love him as more than a friend? Did he mean more to her than anyone else she knew?

She fled as soon as she could when he made his confession, sure that had been the wrong reaction but she couldn't think of what else to do. It had to be better that she ran than just stand there, looking like an idiot and making Chase feel like a bigger one. At least running away had given her time to think about the way she felt.

Unfortunately, she had yet to figure it out. All she knew at this point was that Chase was special. She loved him more than the others, but still no more than a friend.

Needless to say, when their eyes met that morning in the cafe, Kendall blushed deeply. Chase did as well, but he was able to cover up with a smile.

"Good morning," he said cheerily as she walked by him.

"Good morning," she answered and kept walking. Chase went after her, gently catching her by the arm.

"Kendall, I meant it," he told her, still smiling. "There's no pressure, alright."

She knew he meant in regards to their relationship. He had promised nothing would change between them now that she knew he loved him. She couldn't expect him to keep his word but it seemed he was trying. She flashed him a little smile.

"I don't know how I feel."

"Just, let me know soon as," he asked her. "That way, you know, we can start something or I can move on."

Kendall gulped. Move on? Was he serious? Just like that? At her command he would start flirting with the waitresses and the female customers? He would find somebody else?

Then again, her father had promised to love her mother for the rest of his life. Eight years later, he couldn't leave her or his daughter fast enough, never once looking back.

"Oh... okay..."

"It's just, you know, so there's no hard feelings," Chase said, scratching the back of his neck nervously. "I'd rather just be your friend than let something like this come between us. You get it?"

"I... yeah," Kendall nodded her head, though it was a flat out lie. She had no idea what he meant. How could he love her, but at the same time find it so easy to just let her go. Believing her, Chase flashed her a warm smile, squeezed her arm gently then went back to work setting up the dining room for the day. Kendall retreated into the kitchen, finding Ivan and Koda were prepping. Right away they noticed the baffled look on her face and stopped what they were doing.

"Kendall is okay?" Koda asked. Kendall shrugged.

"Have either of you been in love?"

Koda and Ivan looked to each other briefly before smirking and turning their attention back to Kendall. She sighed, knowing what they were thinking.

"Not me. Well, not yet, anyways. Chase."

"Chase love Kendall very much," Koda nodded with a big grin.

"Indeed. He's been smitten for quite some time," Ivan agreed. "Perhaps since well before my arrival."

"Great, so I was last to know," Kendall rolled her eyes. "So, explain to me this, if Chase really is in love, and it's been for a while... does that just, go away?"

"Shall we try inserting the Cupid Charger backwards?" Ivan suggested. "It could potentially have the reserve effect?"

"Guys, I'm being serious," Kendall pulled up a stool and sat down. "Chase told me he loved me at the bar. Now this morning he's saying if I don't return his feeling he'll just... move on. What does that mean? How can it be that easy?"

"I loved a lady once," Ivan said, leaning back on the grill as he thought about the woman from back home. "She had the most beautiful eyes. I swore, one day, I would make her mine."

"Did you?"

"Unfortunately, being imprisoned inside Fury for hundreds of years makes it quite difficult to woo the heart of a young damsel," Ivan sighed. "To this day, I continue to miss her. She will forever hold a place in my heart."

"I miss Taka," Koda smiled and glanced off into space, likely reminding himself of his own girl from his time. "She have very pretty face and make big fires."

"What happened with her?"

"I fight sabre-tooth," Koda said. "Freeze in glacier for thousands of years. When I wake up, Taka is gone."

"I'm very sorry, both of you," Kendall said, feeling a little sympathetic. Here she was, moaning on about how Chase loved her while Ivan and Koda were forced to miss their chance with women they were in love with. "I had no idea."

"Tis the past, milady," Ivan assured her, the smile coming back to his lips. "We have learned to move on."

"Yes," Koda agreed. "Still miss Taka, but now I have new friends, new family. I am happy again."

"Just like that?"

"Far from it," Ivan sighed. "I spent the better part of a century wishing things had turned out differently. Or, simply, that I got the chance to say goodbye."

"Kendall never move on from people and still care for them?"

"I... I guess I've never... well, maybe my mother."

"Your mother? Tell me, is this the drunk?"

"Or nice mom?"

"My birth mother. The drunk. I... I guess... it's complicated."

"Tell me," Ivan said, taking a seat next to Kendall, "You love your second mother, do you not?"

She nodded her head.

"Yet, still, you've found it in your heart to hold onto the love you had for your birth mother? In spite of the way things ended?"

"I moved on?"

"And I doubt you found it easy," Ivan flashed her a comforting smile. "Lady Kendall, if Chase does move on, that does not mean his love for you was not genuine. Nor does it mean his love for you will cease. It will, simply, alter. And that is neither quick, nor easy."

"I guess that's why he wants to know as soon as possible."

"And I hope you will let him know what to do as soon as you can," Ivan said. "Chase is being very patient with you. You can extend him the same kindness by respecting his feelings. Please, don't lead him on."

"I promise, I won't hurt him," Kendall said just before her Dino Com went off. She was talking with Ivan and Koda, and Chase was just in the other room. A call over the communicators wasn't needed and if the other Rangers needed to get in touch, she insisted they use her cell phone or video chat. But just as she was about to answer the call, it disappeared, and when she tried to call Tyler back, she got no answer.

"Curious," Ivan frowned.

"He is in trouble?" Koda asked.

"I... I don't know," Kendall said. "That is strange, though."

"It could be monster?" Koda suggested. "Like monster than hurt you, Kendall?"

Kendall felt a knot form in her stomach. She barely remembered the hell she suffered at the hands of the mystery alien but knew it had been painful. Someone had control of her mind, access to her thoughts and was able to manipulate the way she felt about her friends. She didn't want the other Rangers to suffer in kind.

"I'll check it out downstairs; see if I can't track Tyler on the GPS."

"I shall try to reach Shelby," Ivan said. "If anything's happened to Tyler, she would be the first to know."