Phantom Rogue: It gets a little bit happier in this chapter. Unfortunately, for Andros it can't stay that way forever.
Jessica01: I would really like to read that one. Where can I find it?
Melly: Glad you like it. Here's more!
Disclaimer: As much as I would like for it to be, Power Rangers is not my creation.
Ch. 2 Family Matters
It was the next morning before Zhane's parents had arrived. They were members of the Peace Council of KO-35 and had been kept late in a meeting. When they arrived both Andros and Zhane were asleep and Danielle filled them in on what had been happening. Zhane was the first to wake up and saw his parents and Danielle talking quietly in the corner.
"Are we going to take Andros home with us?" he questioned seriously.
"I don't know, Zhane," his mother, Katerina, answered. "Your dad and I can't figure out if it would be the best thing for us to do."
"Of course it's the best thing to do!" Zhane yelled, looking over at the other bed and hoping he hadn't woken Andros up. "Mom, we have to do this. I have to do this." He finished more quietly.
"Why is this so important to you Zhane?" his father, Zel, questioned.
"Because I was the only person he trusted enough to tell what had happened to him and now it's my turn to do something about it," he began. "I know that you think this will be a big change but Andros needs something to be the same and I'm that something." His parents only nodded and then left the room to fill out the required paperwork. By that time Andros had woken up and was now staring at Zhane expectantly. "Hey, brother, how are you feeling?"
"Did you just call me your brother?" Andros asked, trying to control the urge to run around the room in excitement.
"Yeah," Zhane answered. "Now I'll have three brothers." He saw Andros' hurt expression and asked, "What's wrong Andros?"
"I have a twin sister," he began, "what's going to happen to her?"
"I guess she'll come to live with us too," Zel answered as he walked back into the room. Andros started at the sound of a new voice and turned to stare at the new comer. "Hi, I'm Zhane's dad, Zel, and this is his mom, Katerina," he stated, introducing both himself and his wife who had also entered the room. Andros looked at both of them curiously before shaking their hands.
"Do you really mean that Karone can come to?" he asked, suddenly afraid of leaving his sister behind,
"Of course," Katerina answered. "We couldn't separate the two of you. In fact, she's waiting outside, would you like to see her?" Andros nodded quickly and Karone walked through the door. She ran over to her brother's bed, with tears in her eyes. Zel lifted her up to the bed and let her reunite with her brother. The police had told them when they had found her she had been locked in a small room and hadn't been feed in at least a week. She had been severely dehydrated and wasn't allowed to see her brother until they were both in better conditions. When Zel had asked why they didn't bring Karone in with Andros the only answer he had received was Andros was hallucinating so much when they brought him in that they hadn't believed him when he had told them where his sister was and now they were dealing with the consequences.
"Andros, what's happening?" Karone asked, as the tears poured down her face.
"I told, Karone," he admitted, knowing that she knew what he meant.
"Why did you do that?" she questioned, glad that her brother had but if no one would have believed him she knew that they would have been in even worse trouble.
"I didn't mean to, it just slipped out and a police officer was standing at the door," he explained, hoping that she wasn't mad.
"What's going to happen to us now?" she asked and he could sense how scared she was.
"This is my new friend, Zhane," Andros answered, pointing over to the other bed. "We're going to stay at his house now and you'll have four brothers."
"No more sisters?" Karone questioned sadly.
"Actually, my mom's getting ready to have another baby and it's supposed to be a girl," Zhane answered and Karone's face lit up.
"I get to be a big sister?" she asked just to make sure.
"You sure do and Andros, you get to be a big brother," Zhane stated hoping to make them both feel better. It always helped to know that you were going to have a big family and Zhane knew that to his new siblings that a family was all that really mattered to either of them.
A/N: Please Review. I'm having a little case of writer's block on Andros' Life so I plan to work on this one for a while. Please feel free to share any ideas that you have for what should happen next in either one.
