Emily found Mia and Kevin's home but she couldn't bring herself to ring the bell. She wanted to forgive Mia, but every time she thought of what her best friend had done it brought back memories of when her mother left, and of the times Mia promised she would never leave. It had been a worry of Emily's for a while that once the war was over everyone would go their separate ways and forget about each other. Mia and Kevin especially had plans of finding a home, and Emily had mistakenly thought they were looking for homes out of State. That hadn't been the case. Kevin and Mia always planned on staying close, but it had been something that concerned Emily. To reassure her that the final battle wouldn't break up the Samurai family, Kevin and Mia especially had promised they would stay in touch. By taking off, Mia had broken that promise. She had done exactly what Emily's mother had done, and she had broken a promise.

She sat on the patio steps and sighed. Hawaii had been amazing. Coming home was depressing. Storm was at the vet's for at least another night and Emily still had to deal with the drama between herself and Mia.

She wasn't sure how long she had been sitting on the patio for, but it was long enough for someone to notice. Mia sat down beside her, handing her a hot chocolate.

"You look like you're cold."

Emily wrapped her hands around the mug and nodded her head, "Hawaii doesn't get cold. The sun's always shining."

"The honeymoon was good, I take it."

Emily picked up the bag containing Mia's souvenir and put it down beside the pink Ranger, "I got you something."

"You didn't have to," Mia said but she opened the bag and looked inside. The gift wasn't much. It was a couple of shells which Mia assumed Emily had picked up from the beaches of Hawaii, and a pink shirt with a tiki head on the front. Mia was touched by the gift, though. When Emily and Mike had left for Hawaii, they had no idea Mia would ever be coming back. A few calls during the honeymoon told them otherwise, but Mia never got the chance to explain herself to her little siblings. The fact that Emily and Mike had thought about her enough to bring something home for her made Mia smile, but it also made Mia feel guilty. When she had run off, she had run away from her problems, and she had tried to get away from Kevin for reasons she still didn't completely understand. She had never really intended on leaving the others behind.

"I love it, Emy."

"Don't call me that. I'm still mad at you. We both are."

"I can't have kids."

"I know," Emily nodded her head and glared at Mia, "It doesn't mean you can't have a family. What you did…"

"I'm sorry."

"Mom did the same thing."

"I know."

"But yours was worse. Mom is… well, she's my mom. She's supposed to stick around. But she never promised. Not until after she came back did she ever promise she would never leave. You promised and then you ran away."

"I'm so sorry, Emily."

"You better be," Emily glared at Mia hatefully. "I'm not like you. I don't have friends and family wherever I go. Everything I care about is here in this city. Before I met you, everyone picked on me."

"I know, but Emily, you're a different person now. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you're going to be great. You saved the world. Nothing's hard after that."

"We saved the world," Emily shook her head; "We all did it as a family and for our families. My family is the most precious thing I have and you broke it."

"I'm home now," Mia wrapped her arms tightly around Emily and kissed the side of her head, "I'm home, I'm staying home, and I'm so sorry. I never wanted to hurt you. I was just…"

"Hurt. I know," Emily leaned into Mia with a sigh, "I get it. Just, promise you'll never, ever, do anything like that again. Really promise. Pinky promise?"

Emily held out her pinky and looked Mia right in the eyes. Mia wrapped her pinky around Emily's, nodded, and then got up.

"There's someone you need to meet. Nothing's ever going to make up for what I did, and I'm so sorry I let it happen, but I'm a little happy it did happen."

"Happy?"

Mia took Emily's hand, "It's not what you think. Come inside."

Emily followed Mia into the house and as she took off her jacket she heard Kevin's voice.

"Riley, you need to eat your broccoli. It's healthy, and so good for you. You'll grow big and strong if you eat this."

Mia led Emily into the kitchen. Kevin saw the girls coming in and looked up to say hi before turning back to Riley, hoping to get her to finish her vegetables before they moved on to dessert.

"Mia!" Riley called when she saw Kevin looking up and she assumed Mia was back inside, "I don't like broccoli! Make the meanie…" Riley trailed off nervously when she saw Mia had brought someone home. She ducked behind the chair, peeking out cautiously.

Emily turned to Mia, "I took a plane home, right? Not a time machine? It's 2012?"

Mia chuckled and nodded her head, "After running away I tried to find a place to spend the night. I broke into Riley's home, assuming it was empty. I found her there alone. We still don't know where her parents are and her older brother died. We're taking care of her."

"You have a kid?" Emily asked. "I go to Hawaii and you have a kid?"

"Well, not exactly but… yeah, I guess," Mia chuckled and looked over to Kevin who nodded.

"So… this is awkward," Emily put her hands in her pockets. Mia gave her a hug and looked to Riley.

"Riley, this is my little sister whom I love very, very, very much. Emily, meet Riley."

"She loves me too," Riley whispered. "She told me so."

"Riley's a big fan of the pink Ranger," Mia said to Emily, "Pink is her very favourite of all of them."

Emily looked to Mia and then back to Riley. She saw Kevin was still trying to feed broccoli to the little girl. A little smirk appeared on her lips. She had the perfect way to get back at Mia for abandoning her.

"Broccoli's stupid," she said and Riley looked like she nervously agreed, "I ate all of mine as a kid, and does it look like I grew?"

Riley chuckled and shook her head. She turned to Kevin, "See, broccoli is bad."

"Emy, what are you doing?" Mia asked fearfully. It was already hard enough convincing Riley to eat her fruits and vegetables. She didn't need Emily messing everything up.

"Yellow Ranger vs. pink Ranger duel," Emily said and tagged Riley on the shoulder, "Winner never has to eat vegetables again."

"Emily…"

Riley hopped out of her chair excitedly and ran to the living room to get her toy Spin Sword and her pink Ranger mask.

"What?" Emily gasped, seeing Riley's toys, "That's so cool! I want that!"

"Too bad," Riley giggled and playfully swung her sword at Emily, "Pink Ranger is awesomer than yellow."

"Hey, I'm unarmed!" Emily jumped out of the way of Riley's attack and started running around the house, with Riley right behind her. There were cries and thumps as the two ran all around the house. It was very likely they were running into things. Mia groaned loudly and fell into Riley's seat at the table. She grabbed her head in her hands. Kevin already looked exhausted.

"Why would you introduce Emily to a four year old?"

"I'm so sorry, Kevin," Mia sighed. "I'm obviously not thinking right these days."

Kevin chuckled as he reached out and took Mia's hand, "Maybe they'll wear each other out, and tonight won't be a fight to put either of them to bed."