Author's note 1: Okay as you can see this is chapter 2 in my first fanfic and i'd like to thank everyone for reading and if you're liking what you're reading sub for story alert.

Author's note 2: Alright just getting a few things out of the way I get that the story opens up very slowly but it will get very action packed very soon and even pretty dark pretty soon.

Author's note 3 : Reviews and feedback will be very much appreciated and i understand my writing style can be very descriptive but i do it for the benefit of those reading because i want you to be able to see in your head exactly what I write, cause it is a pretty awesome picture my imagination can attest to that.

Thank You and enjoy your read.

Disclaimer : I do not own the Power Rangers.

Chapter 2 : Adjusting

Silver Suites Apartment 5A - Thursday July 31st, 2003 6:59am

As we find ourselves back exactly where it all left off all we can see is a wide awake Wesley Collins with his eyes pretty much indicating he had not slept all night the clock winds up one more minute and now reads 7:00am and an alarm goes off before Wes turns over and shuts it off. Wes immediately remains lying on the bed a while longer as the sounds of Bob Seger's Beautiful Loser plays in the background...

(Montage)-Wes then gets on with his morning as he begins with his exercise routine which consists of many push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and strength training then moves onto his morning shower as well as brushing his teeth before he finally moves on to breakfast. As he walks into his kitchen a feint popping sound is made as it appears his breakfast is ready which consists of two strawberry Pop Tarts and then grabs the coffee he so desperately needs. Once he finishes there he appears to be in front of his mirror getting dressed in his Silver Guardians apparel before he peers up and looks at the pictures that were taken that final night his friends were with him most particularly at one he took with Jen where he's holding her smiling at the camera. He looks at it for a good bit before walking out his door and an SUV drives up to his sidewalk which we all know his partner Eric is in as they get ready for work today.

Work this day consisted of handing out speeding and traffic tickets as well as rescuing a cat from a tree and taking statements from teenagers playing hooky. Not a very interesting day before Wes and Eric proceed to be having lunch at a local burger joint, right before finishing up the work day that consists of Eric handing out a few more tickets before they both punch out and Eric drives Wes home, just as Wes exits the vehicle he says goodbye to Eric as he walks back home spends the remainder of the day watching sports eating frozen tv dinners and punching away on a boxing training bag before he gets out of his work clothes and lets himself fall on his bed as his day is over and he heads to sleep as the clock reads 9:48pm.(Montage over)

Friday August 1st , 2003 Silver Suites/Apartment 5A 6:59am

The clock turns over and now reads 7:00am as Wes is awakened by the sound of heavy metal music. He turns over to hit the off button but the button appears to be malfunctioning because he hits it numerous times and the music continues to blast, he finally just says the hell with it and rips the clock off its plug and throws onto the floor. Wes then continues on to finish up his work week as he gets up exercises as well as shower and shave. He walks over to his cabinets and reaches into his pop tarts box but there seems to be no more.

"You gotta be kidding me" Wes says to himself just before he turns on the coffee maker but also seems he's run out of coffee."Oh come on" he says as he just chucks the empty pop tarts box away not even worrying where in his apartment it lands. Wes then has this frustrated look on his face as he sits down knowing this day is gonna be hell. All of a sudden there is a knock on his door as he proceeds to answer it looking very surprised he has a visitor. he doesn't even bother looking into the peephole as he opens the door.

"Hey Buddy, hows it going work is almost here so come on I brought donuts and some coffee." Eric says as he walks in the door carrying a box of donuts and two cups of what appears to be fresh brewed coffee.

"Er...Eric, what the hell are you doing here?" Wes asks.

"Well good morning to you to man, and to answer your question i just thought you might be hungry man. I figured you must have run out of food by now." Eric replies in his usual witty charming self.

"Yeah um...how did you know I'd be out of food?" Wes asks.

"Did the math man you shop for groceries about once a month and eat out most of the time." Eric replies as he sips his coffee. "and besides I was just talking to Taylor we went out for breakfast and she told me it'd be nice of me to come bring you some fresh baked donuts."

"Look Eric...i know what you're trying to do and i appreciate it but i think..."

"I'm not trying to do anything"

"Yes! yes you are man you're trying to cheer me up just like you have been trying to for the last year and all I'm gonna say is please man. I'm fine okay you don't need to be talking to your girlfriend about me or bringing me coffee or anything like that." Wes replies in a very persuasive manor.

"Alright look man, I get it okay but I'm not doing anything is it so bad for me to think my friend would be hungry today?" Eric replies. "So C'mon suit up, shut up, drink your coffee and have a donut okay? "Eric replies in a jokingly manor.

"Okay fine just give me a few minutes alright" he says as he takes the coffee cup Eric bought him and opens the donut box. "Um...Eric" Wes says as he looks down at Eric who sits on the Lazy-Boy chair. "this box is supposed to be a variety box with dozen donuts and uh...there's like 3 glazed ones left." He says with a minor smirk and Eric has this look of comedic guilt on his face.

"I uh...like the sprinkled ones the best" he says with a funny look on his face as Wes just takes a donut and eats it.

"Yeah Eric C'mon let's get going." Wes says as we cut away.

We find ourselves in the Silver Guardians SUV as Eric is finishing up what's left of the donuts as he's driving and singing along to Pearl Jam's Alive, as Wes just looks at him looking quite annoyed.

"I think I liked you better back when you didn't have a personality." Wes says interrupting Eric as he sings who just smiles back.

"Did you now? Well I think everyone all liked you back when you actually had a personality." Eric responds as Wes looks back at him with a somewhat bothered expression. "I mean u were quiet all day yesterday man even when we had lunch, now I know this job isn't the most exciting job anymore I mean especially since the damn police department merged with us and now were being relegated to handing out speeding tickets and busting a couple of pot smoking teenagers but at the end of the day we saved the world man and that's what counts." Eric says as he means every word he says.

Wes just looks over at him "Whatever" Wes replies as he continues to look out his passenger window.

"C'mon man you gotta get out of this funk alright, I mean I know you lost Jen..."

"Hey!" Wes interrupts him "Shut up."

"I know it's not in my place to say anything but C'mon man, she left..." Eric says before he is interrupted again

"I said, shut up" he responds with anger in his voice.

"What's the matter with you dude, you weren't this much of a mess when we had to go do that job on the moon with the other Red Rangers, and I mean she had already been gone 2 weeks before that happ..."

"I thought she'd come back" Wes says very faintly as Eric looks over at him "I thought she could still come back man. She was only gone two weeks, I still had hope, but its been over a year now and...I know she isn't coming back" he says as he nearly chokes up.

"You sound like you made peace with that, then how about going to make some peace with your father?" Eric says.

"I can't" he replies.

Look man I' sure he's already forgiven you your his son, it was an accident." Eric says as Wes just looks at him back.

"Yeah i know but it's been 3 months man, I just...I can't look him in the eyes after what I did." Wes responds.

"Look, all you have..." Eric says as he's interrupted by the sound of the police radio.

'Silver Guardians is there anyone in the downtown area we have a young woman in the area that needs assistance, over'

Eric takes the radio and responds "This is car #1 Lt. Myers here myself and officer Collins will take this one, over" Eric responds. "Alright Wes looks like we've got a little action today." He says as he exits the freeway and activates the Sirens...

"So tell us miss, what did this guy look like?" Eric says as he speaks to a young woman with blonde hair and a very nice figure and her sister who looks very similar but with a more sophisticated look while Wes just stands there writing down what they say.

"I know him actually he's...my ex-boyfriend he um...I broke up with him and issued a restraining order because he was getting very aggressive, and today he just came up to us and said that I took away 5 months of his life and he's not going away empty handed, he stole my purse and my locket." She says as she still appears to be shaken up.

"Okay um do you happen to have a picture of this guy" Eric says.

"Yeah um...here's his Facebook page" she says as she pulls out her phone.

"Okay thanks we'll be sure to find him my partner and I will see what we can do, now does he have a car?" Eric says as Wes walks beside him.

"No." she replies.

"Okay then so he can't be far. We'll call you if we find anything okay miss um..." Eric says .

"Anna, and um this is my sister Claire." she replies.

"Alright Eric you take the Promenade and everything around there and I'll take the rest alright he shouldn't be far there's no cabs around this place."

"Please," Anna says to Wes and Eric "Get my locket back, its the only thing I have left from my mom."

"We'll do everything we can Anna" Eric replies to her before he and Wes walk away. "Alright let's split up show his damn picture around to the people and see if anyone has seen the guy then whichever one of us find him we take him in alright?"

"I know the drill man" Wes replies before we cut away as the Silver Guardians split up and take a look at the massive amount of humanity walking and socializing all over the streets and they think this is gonna be harder than they thought.

As our heroes split up they each show the culprits picture around to many people each one saying they hadn't seen him an don't know who he is as well as a few people telling Wes that they had seen him and trying to point him in the right direction however this is looking alot more certain that the trail had gone cold before Wes looks over to his left and sees a man in a gray hoody who looks directly at Wes and as Wes looks back the man looks scared for a second before he takes off running in the opposite direction. As soon as he takes off Wes takes off as well running after him and a footchase begins.

The man running very fast running into several pedestrians as he attempts to lose the officer pursuing him but Wes continues to be hot on his trail before talking into his morpher. "Eric track my signal and get here fast, I found him and I'm chasing him hurry."

"Got it" Eric speaks into his morpher before turning the SUV around in the middle of traffic and blasting the sirens on his way to help his partner.

Wes continues in pursuit of this guy as they turn into several other locations around the city jumping rails and benches before the man turns into an alley and spots the meta staircase on the side of a building and proceeds to climb it and before Wes can get to him the man pulls the ladder up and out of Wes' reach.

The man then continues trying to get away as he uses the stairs as he attempts to get onto the roof, Wes spots a high fence and proceeds to climb up to the bar and takes a long jump to the metal rails of the staircase and makes it although he appears to have hurt his ribcage. He pulls himself up and runs up the stairs still in pursuit. As the man makes it to the roof he begins looking around the edge of the building he is on seeing if there is someway off the roof before Wes makes it up as well.

"Freeze!" Wes says as he pulls out his Silver Guardians blaster "You're under arrest"

The man looks over to the building beside him which has a lower roof with the gap between the two not too big he takes a few steps back and takes a huge Leap of Faith in attempts to make it over to the other building. "No!" Wes screams just before the man jumps then runs toward the edge and witnesses the man had made the jump and is now walking toward the nearest door on the roof. Wes then looks at the gap and takes a few steps back as well "Oh great I don't need this crap right now" then picks up some speed and jumps over to the other roof making it. The man opens up the door and Wes follows but the door seems to have been jammed closed.

Wes gets upset as he feels that he is going to lose this guy before he looks to the edge and sees another set of side metal stairs and he begins climbing down those stairs as simultaneously the culprit is running down the stairs of the inside Wes decides to do something dangerous as he sees a mountain of cardboard boxes and rather run down the rest of the steps, halfway down the stairs he takes a jump onto the boxes in an attempt to get a softer landing and make up for some distance but as he lands he hurts himself yet again. The man gets closer to reaching the lobby before spotting the exit door, that is when Wes gets up and runs to the same door from the outside as he circles around the side of the building. As soon as the culprit steps out the door here comes Wes charging him like a bull and tackling him down to the floor. the man pulls out a knife but Wes is able to avoid getting stabbed and knocking the knife out of his hand turning him around and proceeds to cuff him.

"Damn man, that was freaking exhausting, but thanks for the fun now get up and turn around." Wes says just as the SUV pulls up beside him. "Sure, show up when all the hard work has been done" Wes says as Eric steps out of the car.

"So...i guess stopping for a burger was out of the question huh?" Eric says jokingly as Wes cracks a smile."Nice job man, alright face the car runner."

Wes reaches into the mans pockets and finds the locket that he stole from Anna.

"Got it" Wes says as he shows it to Eric.

"Well looks like you're gonna be going away for a long time theft violating a restraining order resisting arrest and from what I see attempted assault on an officer, get in the car" Eric says as he places the perp into the SUV. "Alright man I called for a few guys to come take him down to the station, let's give this back to it's rightful owner."

Wes and Eric walk up and see Anna and Claire waiting at the station Wes with the locket in hand.

"Anna I think we have something here that belongs to you and we got him, he's going away for a long time" Eric says as Anna walks up to Wes and takes the locket from his hands also looking directly at him in a very thankful flirtatious way.

"Thank you so much I...I...can't even explain how much this means to me, will you help me put it on?" She says looking directly to Wes.

""Um...Sure" Wes says very nervously as the young woman turns her back and stands there as Wes wraps the necklace around her neck and puts it on her.

"Thank you so much, I wish there was a way to repay you guys." she says after she turns around and looks at her sister.

"Don't mention it, have a nice day" Wes says as he looks like he's ready to walk away before Claire chimes in.

"Um..hey guys listen me and my little sister here really want to thank you for what you did for us and we were wondering if maybe you'd like to join us for dinner tonight maybe a movie" she says.

"Umm...well I don't think we..." Wes says.

"We'd love to." Eric says interrupting Wes.

"Great here's my number call me and we can set up the when and where." Claire says as she writes her number down and hands it to Eric as Anna smiles at Wes.

"Awesome, we'll see you tonight" Eric replies as the girls exit the station looking very excited Wes on the other hand is just staring at Eric looking very upset.

"Um...Eric, an I have a little word with you." Wes says.

"Yeah sure but talk while we walk I want to go and get some lunch." Eric replies as he walks out the door and Wes follows.

"Yeah um..where in the hell did you think it would be a good idea setting me up on a double date?" Wes says.

"What?, i think it's a great idea that Anna chick is obviously into you man"

"Yeah but did you maybe think that I'm not into her?"

"How can you not be? look a her she's pretty hot."

"That's not what i meant man I just meant that maybe I'm not read..."

"Look man they asked I think it'd be good for you to finally go out on a Friday and have some fun, this is a good thing bro." Eric says to Wes as he just rolls his eyes.

"You really don't see a problem with this do you?" Wes asks.

"Not a one" he answers.

"Not one?"

"Nope"

"Really?"

"Yeah" he says as he takes off his red cap.

"Okay then can't wait, tonight should be riveting." Wes replies very sarcastically.

"That's the spirit man." Eric says as he smiles.

"Okay man, just one thing." Wes says.

"Yeah?" he replies still smirking.

"What are you gonna tell Taylor?" Wes says as Eric's facial expression quickly changes from smirky to the kind of look you can only have when you just screwed yourself. "Should be a fun evening huh?"

"Yeah...I think we have a problem" Eric says. "But okay maybe if I just explain things rationally Taylor will understand right?"

"Of course man, if there's anything Taylor is about it's understanding and forgiveness." he says very sarcastically as he walks away and smacks Eric softly in the face as Eric's expression remains the same but looking very comedic.

"Alright uh...I can do this, I can find a way to explain this no big deal." Eric says to himself however his face shows that he's pretty frightened just before we fade out .

To be continued...

Notes : The next chapter will feature what is sure to be a very entertaining double date so stay tuned for more.

Also if there are any Supernatural fans here you will notice that that opening montage was not an original idea but it's one f my favorite moments so i used it. It was a necessary scene that although seems boring it was meant for everyone to see what Wes' new life is like now that he has been without Jen for one year.