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Author's Note: Hey everyone, sorry about the delay in writing. I wrote all those Valentine stories then realized I needed a break, but I'm back, so I hope you enjoy this.

Silencing Fear

Marah and Kapri headed to their room. They were both silent as they made their way down the hall away from their Uncle's room. It was horrible. He wasn't supposed to hurt them like that. They had both volunteered and that horrible Space Mutant put something on them and it made Marah experience her worst fear. She was being laughed at, the butt of the joke. She shivered wishing the thought would go away. They quickly got into their room and shut the door. Kapri hurriedly got onto her bed. For a second Marah tried to figure out why she had scooped her legs on the bed underneath her and then it dawned on her. She looked under the beds and in the corners and then she went and sat next to her older sister and put an arm around her.

"Don't worry, I checked, no spiders."

Kapri gave a small smile. "Thanks."

"No problem."

"How could he do that?"

Marah pursed her lips together and thought for a minute, "Kapri does he not love us?"

The two sisters were silent for a minute before Kapri answered, "Love? Come on Marah, who are we? The Power Rangers? No, we're evil space mutants. Come on let's get some sleep."

But Kapri didn't move. In fact the two sisters sat there taking in each other's comfort of the other one being there. After a while Kapri pulled away and laid on her bed. Marah stood up, "I'm going…out real quick. I'll be back."

Kapri sat up, "Where are you going?"

"I just want to see if they're done. You can go to sleep. I want to take a walk, okay?"

"Fine." Kapri lay back down. "See ya."

"Bye."

Marah made her way out of the room and then quickly teleported down to Dustin's track. She changed when she got there. It was a bit windy that day so she decided on a pair of jeans and an orange dressy shirt. Her hair was down but with a soft wave to it. She looked around and felt her shoulders fall when she didn't see him anywhere. Normally she'd just leave, but she really wanted to see him. Seeing some guys talking she headed over, first making sure they weren't the rangers and then tapped one on the shoulder.

The guy turned around and smiled, "Hey. Can I help you?"

"Do you know Dustin?"

One of the other guys spoke up, "Yeah."

"Do you know where he is?"

"I think I saw him at Storm Chargers."

Marah turned to leave and the first guy grabbed her wrist, "Why not stay for a bit?"

"No thanks." She pulled her wrist away from him before he tightened his grip and quickly walked off before any of them could do anything. As Marah headed to town she smiled thinking of Dustin coming and beating the guy up and sweeping her off her feet. She giggled as she saw herself in Dustin's arms. Sure she could take care of herself, but it would be so romantic for Dustin to protect her. Marah was so busy in her daydream that she didn't notice the sky above her darken.

Marah stopped and asked a few more people where Storm Chargers was. Sure she had been there before, but only through teleporting, she had never walked there. She wondered how long it was going to take. She had the biggest grin until the rain came. It poured on her drenching her hair. She stood there in shock as her cloths were completely ruined. She wanted to cry. First Uncle had done that horrible thing to her and Kapri, and then Dustin wasn't at the track and now it was raining and she probably couldn't find him anyways. She was about to teleport back to the ship when she heard her name. She looked up through the rain—there was Dustin coming towards her. Great now he got to see her like this.

Looking around she decided to pretend she didn't hear him and turned towards the store only to realize it was closed, and then she turned to the street but decided against dealing with the cars. But before she could turn around Dustin had reached her.

"Didn't you hear me?" Marah looked down at the ground. "Are you okay?" He gently rubbed her bare arm. "You're cold and wet. Come one."

He took her hand and led her through a maze of streets and buildings. She couldn't understand how they could do this all the time. It would be so much easier to teleport. After what seemed like forever she found herself being led by Dustin into a house.

"Sorry I didn't have anything to put over you." He stood there for a few minutes, "Do you want to change? I'm sure my sister—" Marah clicked her fingers and changed causing Dustin to stop for a minute. "Or there's that." Marah smiled weakly at him. She was wearing another pair of jeans with a simple yellow shirt on. This time her hair was straight. "Are you still cold?" Marah nodded. Dustin took off and she heard him going up the stairs.

The now dry brunette decided to look around a bit. She saw pictures on the fireplace. She saw an older man who had a bit of Dustin in him that had to be his Dad. She saw a pretty brunette woman standing next to him, she smiled. 'It was Dustin's parents. They looked so cute and happy together.' She looked at the picture next to it, there were four people in it—his parents, Dustin and a girl who looked a bit older than Dustin. That was hopefully his sister.

Moving down the fireplace she saw two little kids—a boy and girl—playing at a park. Marah frowned and wondered why she never got to play at a park. It had to be Dustin, it looked just like him. She continued looking at the pictures; they were really nice to look at. It was as if watching a movie family. Why didn't they have pictures? Why didn't their parents take her and Kapri to the park? Why didn't—

"Hey."

Marah turned around and saw Dustin had changed and was also in jeans but with a bike t-shirt on. He had a blanket in his arms. He went over and wrapped it around her. Marah smiled at the feel of his arm around her. "Thanks." She felt her cheeks flushing.

"No problem. Dude, you're looking at the pictures. Mom insists on having them all up there, I know it's—"

Looking up into Dustin's face she quietly replied, "I like it."

He looked taken aback, "Oh. Really?"

"Yeah."

Dustin nodded. "Cool. Wanna sit down?"

Marah nodded and Dustin led her over to the couch and they both sat down. "Dustin, can spiders live on space ships?"

"Um.." He scratched his head. "Gee dude, I don't know. Maybe. Why?"

She shrugged; she didn't want to bring Uncle into their time. Besides she liked sitting here wrapped in this blanket with Dustin's arm around here. She really liked it here, it was a place that she wouldn't mind coming back to, unlike her and Kapri's room. But they were evil, so of course it couldn't be all happy like this. "Dustin, do you think I'm evil?"

Normally people would wonder how Marah got from spiders to evil, but Dustin didn't seem too confused by it, he pulled away from Marah. "Evil?"

"Look, never mind, I was just…it's just…"

"Marah, evil is…well…"

Marah couldn't believe what she was hearing. Dustin thought she was evil! "Look, forget it." She stood up the blanket dropping off of her body which now shivered. "I have to go."

"Wait." Dustin stood up and grabbed her hand. "That's a hard question."

"Really? How hard? If you were to ask me if you were evil I would say no without any thought."

"But Marah, you're with Lothor."

Marah's facial expression flashed with anger, hurt and disappointment. "Fine. You think I'm evil. I'll just go." Marah couldn't keep the anger and it was replaced with sadness in the form of tears ready to spill from her eyes. She turned so Dustin wouldn't see her. Just as she was about to teleport she felt a hand grab hers.

"Marah, I'm sorry. I think the side you're on is evil, but I don't think you are."

She turned around. "Really?"

"Yeah."

He smiled his sweet smile that made Marah feel as if nothing else in the world mattered. "Thanks. But I really need to go." She needed time away from Dustin to think things through. Besides if Kapri woke and didn't see her there, she'd be worried.

"You do?"

She nodded and looked down hoping to hide the tear that had escaped one of her eyes. She felt Dustin's hand on her chin lifting up her face. Their eyes locked as he silently wiped away her tear. Marah loved the feel of the Yellow Ranger's hands against her body. It was always so soft and gentle. She felt as if the world disappeared and Dustin and her were alone in a far off land where there were no sides, only them. She longed to be a part of, but she knew that was only in this little fantasy that she and Dustin were in. Still she wasn't going to let that thought ruin this time. She didn't know how long they were looking at each other but they were jolted out of it by a car horn.

"What's that?"

Dustin looked over towards the door, "That would be my Mom with the groceries."

"Oh. I gotta go. I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, but Marah, maybe you could, I don't know, stay a bit longer?"

"I really can't. Kapri will be wondering where I am."

"Right."

Dustin looked away and then quickly leaned down and gave her a soft kiss on her lips. He pulled away and smiled at her. S joyous grin covered her face as she waved and teleported back to the ship. She quickly changed her clothes and went to her and Kapri's room. Kapri was sleeping by then so Marah crawled onto her bed. 'Dustin doesn't think I'm evil.' And with that thought in her head kicking out any remaining fear from that day she slowly drifted off to sleep.