Disclaimer: What, you think I own them….Hahaha! That's a funny one! Tell me another one, come on, I'm always in the mood for a good laugh!

Authors note: Thanks to all the reivews! They are all greatly appreciated. And in the last chapter, there was two quotes from former seasons. DragonChild85 had one of them: No really, it looks good on you from SPD and the other one well, it's more of a similar experince. I wouldn't want to hurt any of you, especially you from DT when Trent revieled to Kira who he really was. Ok, enough ranting...onto the story!

Secret

Five of the six rangers sat in the living room, crowded around a book that was sitting on the table, between them all. Even Spenser and Mr. Harford were there. Laughter and "awes" could be heard from every part of the house. Will sat next to Dax on one of the two couches, while Spenser and Mr. Harford pulled up chairs near the table. Tyzonn leaned over the couch that Rose and Mack were sitting on.

"And this one…oh this one is great! Me, mom, and dad went to the beach, and I didn't understand the concept of "swimming dippers" quiet yet, so when mom wasn't looking, I tore down my dipper and ran towards the ocean. Mom started screaming at me to come back. It was like she was embarrassed or something." Mack explained, referring to the picture of him when he was two, running towards the ocean with his rear end faced towards the camera and his mom chasing after him. The room exploded in laughter after Mack finished his story.

"You always were an… open… child." Mr. Hartford said between his sprits of laughter.

"Hey has anyone seen Ronny, she wouldn't want to miss these opportunities to tease Mack." Dax chimed in, after realizing the yellow ranger's absence.

"No, don't call her in here. She'll never let me live this down. I'm not sure why I'm even letting any of you guys see these." Mack teased.

"Oh come on Mack, It's all in good fun." Rose teased playfully, lightly punching his forearm.

"But no, really, where is Ronny? It isn't like her to hide out on her own." Tyzonn said, slightly confused why Ronny would prefer to be on her own. She wasn't a reserved person who liked to be alone. And almost on que, Ronny walked into the room to find the entire household crowded together.

"Speak of the devil…"Mack began but was quickly cut off by the look that Ronny gave him.

"I resent that comment." She remarked towards Mack, and then she addressed the rest of the household. "What did you guys do, plan a party without me? You know it's not a party unless I'm there right?"

"We were just looking at Mack's baby pictures." Mr. Hartford explained while motioning Ronny to come and join them. She took the empty spot beside Tyzonn, which happened to be directly behind Mack.

"Oh great, now I have your teasing to deal with." Mack teased again.

"Now come on, I'm not that mean; just turn the page so we can see some more pictures." Ronny complained. So with a smile Mack turned the page to reveal a family picture of Mack, his mom, and his dad in front of the ocean. The sun was setting behind them.

"This is my favorite picture," Spenser began. "I remember that day perfectly. It was just after your third birthday party."

"This picture reminds me a lot my own childhood. We don't go swimming where I come from, it was never hot enough to, but the sunset reminds me of the ones I remember from my childhood. Especially the ones I watched with my sister." Tyzonn explained, leaning in to get a better look at the sunset behind the happy family. Still with a smile on his face, Mack turned the page again, but as soon as he did turned the page, everyone busted into laugher at the picture, that is, everyone except for Ronny. She let out a fake chuckle, just to camouflage her distressful situation. Nobody noticed, except for Tyzonn, who caught on to Ronny's awkward behavior and the way she suddenly tensed up.

"Oh I remember that day!" Mack exclaimed. "Mom was out on a trip for a few days and me dad were hyped up sugar, and you can only imagine a three year old after five 'Jumbo Pixy Sticks'." The picture was of Mack and Andrew. Andrew had his hands around Mack's neck, pretending to strangle him, while Mack tried to "escape" with his tongue sticking out.

"Why were you such a hyper child Mack...I don't think that it was the Pixy Sticks that caused this" Rose finally said after her laughing died down.

"Yea Mack, you were quite a goofy kid." Ronny commented with a nervous smile. After that comment, she began to walk out quietly, hoping no one would notice. However, her plan failed.

"Ronny? Where you headed off to?" Mack questioned when he saw Ronny leave suddenly. With her back facing everyone, she stopped dead and her tracks and cringed slightly, trying to come up with a quick lie off the top of her head. She turned around quickly and put on a fake apologetic face.

"Oh sorry I have to leave so soon. All this childhood reminiscing reminded me that I forgot to…call my sister. I haven't talked to her in a couple of months and I think I need to talk to her again. You guys understand right?" She asked, hoping they all would buy her fake story.

"Oh yea, go right ahead, we understand." Rose answered for the rest of the team. With that Ronny gave a thankful smile and walked away rather quickly. Everyone shrugged it off and continued to look at more of Mack's baby pictures. However, Tyzonn too tried to leave inconspicuously. But of course, Will noticed.

"Now where are you off to?" Will questioned.

"I'm just off to learn about Ronny's sister, I didn't even know she had a sister." And he walked off after Ronny.

"Hmm, I didn't know she had one either." Dax stated. Everyone else agreed, but went onto looking at the photo album.

After a couple of minutes of searching through the house, Tyzonn found Ronny in her room with her knees drawn to her chest as she sat on the floor in front of her bed. Her head was also resting on her knees. Her entire body was shaking tremendously. Tyzonn stood at her door way in confusion. He went to walk into her room quietly, so as not to startle her, but when he stepped into her room, one of the floorboards creaked, causing Ronny's head to shoot up in alert. Tyzonn's eyes shut in frustration of startling Ronny and then proceeded to walk into her room, not opening his eyes until the squeaking stopped. Ronny wiped her eyes in attempt to rid her eyes of the tears that were forming in her eyes.

"Tyzonn, what are you doing here." She sobbed between her sniffles.

"I came here to see what was wrong. I saw you suddenly tense up. I also know for a fact that you don't have a sister. It's just nobody else caught onto your lie." He explained as he proceeded to take a seat next to her on the floor with his back against her bed.

"I should have known, nothing gets by you." She half laughed. He just smiled sweetly, until her head slightly dropped down again, causing his smile to fall also.

"So, they may not, but I know; something's wrong. Are you going to tell me what it is, or am I going to have to force it out of you?" He tried to tease, tickling her slightly. She didn't bother to smile, she just batted his hand away, and so he stopped, seeing that something truly was troubling her deeply. "Come on, you can tell me. It's just you, me, and the floorboard here. Nobody else is going to find out. I just want to see you happy again."

"You caught on to earth terminology fairly quickly." She mumbled.

"Yes, but that's not that topic at hand now is it. Come on. Please?" She sighed in response, seeing that she was failing at distracting him long enough to forget her problem.

"Well, the problem is basically my entire childhood." She began. Tyzonn just nodded his head, signaling that he was following her story. "Now I've never told anyone this, so if you tell anyone, I'll have to kill you." See looked at him with stern eyes, proving that this was a non joking matter and that he shouldn't joke about it.

"Promise"

"Okay. Well, ever since I was three, my dad wasn't exactly 'the world's greatest dad'. My mom was never home and my brothers didn't really care about our family. They were always gone. So my family was a pretty broken one. When I was born, my dad wasn't too thrilled to have a girl. He was set on having all boys to fulfill his broken dreams. He was a very angry person Ty. And eventually, he began to take his anger out on me, and me alone. His two boys could do no wrong, but then again, I could do no right in his eyes." Ronny began to tremble as more tears filled her eyes. In attempts to comfort her, Tyzonn put his arm around her shoulders and rested the other one on her right arm. She then took a deep breath and tried to continue. "He beat me, even through high school. I had to try every tactic I could think of to hide the scars and bruises from everyone. I was usually 'sick' from school at least 10 days every year. A lot of people suspected it, but never confronted me about it." She let out a quick shutter at her next though. "The picture of Mack and his dad, it reminded me of a particular day, when he almost killed me. I don't remember why, but he got angry at me, and began to strangle me, until I turned blue and passed out. He then threw me in a closet and left me in there without food for a week. He put me in ICU for two weeks Ty. I was only five." With that, the tears cascaded down her face uncontrollably. Tyzonn instinctively wrapped her into a hug. She rested her head on his shoulder and cried on him for several minutes. He held her until her crying died down.

"Are you okay now?" He questioned quietly, still holding her close to him. He felt her nod against his chest. She started to speak again when he started to lightly stroke her hair.

"I've never told anyone that, ever in my entire life. It's been the secret of my entire life. You must think that I'm weak; after being away from him for two years, I still cry over what he did to me."

"No, no I don't. In fact, I think you are rather incredible for being able to put up with him all those years and still turn out as amazing you are." She smiled slightly, causing him to also smile.

"Just promise me one thing." She asked, looking up at him.

"Anything."

"Promise me that you won't tell anyone, I don't want anybody else knowing about this."

"I promise. Your secret is safe with me."

Authors note: Okay, I'm back. I thought that I would take a different perspective on the term 'secret'. Usually people refer to a secret relationship or a secret to get a couple together. Don't get me wrong, I love those stories, in fact, I was just about to write a story like that, until the side of me that refuses to conform and to be unique came out. I thought it was much more original to write about a secret past. Anywho, hope you enjoyed part III of XL!