The first few days, Gia barely comes out of the guest room. She doesn't unpack and no one bothers her. It's a bit of a downer… The only true human contact that Gia actually receives is that from the constant Skyping of her friends but there is only so much unrequited love that one girl can take in a sitting. It hurts the most when she tries to get ahold of Emma and ends up getting Emma and Troy and more of them than she wanted to. Once they get covered up and Emma's stopped giggling while Troy isn't avoiding Gia's raised brows, the previous yellow ranger asks about how life is going. It comes to Gia's attention that between their flushed faces of pink and red, that are oh so fitting to them, and their breathy chatter, that they are painfully infatuated with one another. So much that it hurts every fiber of Gia's being because she's reminded of her own boyfriend that is painstakingly cities away. With this revelation Gia signs off, making some joke about those two getting back to business and ending with an excuse to message Noah about how far he's getting in his studies. Gia ends the call but she never starts the other. Instead, she opts for one of the black and green hued assortment. The screen dials and with a relief the face of curly hair, impish dimples, and boyish charm appear on her laptop like a godsend.

"Whaddup?!" Jake claps with an enthusiasm that only he seems to embody with every move he makes. She answers back with nothing much and mumbles that she kind of sort of might have missed him. At this, his smile widens and Gia feels elated at the thought that someone wishes to be with her too. The blond girl decides to go on a tangent about how different it is in Silver Hills and how neither Taylor nor Eric seem to pay any mind that she's been here a full three days straight and not once have they bothered her. Jake nods along and listens, every so often putting his own two cents worth but other than that he patiently listens to his girlfriend's complaints. Gia figures that's what it is. Jake has always been patient, had to have been, ever since middle school when he first realized that he was going to end up with her, no matter what. Perhaps, that's why they work so well together. Where one of them falls short in the relationship, the other picks up with their own characteristics. Like a constant push and pull of gravity, they were the force that centered one another. Deciding to end the day on a good note, Gia gets up to lock the door and returns to her computer to enjoy a more intimate moment with her boyfriend when they were miles away.


The next day begins as any other, except for one slight change. A knock on her door. When she gives the signal that she's ready Eric Meyers makes an appearance in her doorway.

Clearing his voice, it comes to Gia's attention that they've never really met each other. Sure, she's been staying in his house for the remainder of this time but other than that the only authentic connection they mutually share is Taylor and even that's not much. "Apparently, it's not healthy for you to be cooped up here for indefinite amounts of time." Gia has a sickening feeling that it's Wes Collins who might have brought about this theory and not her sister but it's a small step.

"I'm fine." Gia tries her hand at reassurance and somehow it sounds more forced than anything.

Eric just gives a tired sigh. "No. You're not." He tells her, looking like he wants to say something more but then stops himself short and changes the subject. It doesn't go unnoticed by the blond girl. "Stay out of this room for the whole rest of the day."

Gia lifts a challenging eyebrow. "Is that an order, Officer Meyers?"

Eric narrows his own at how unnecessarily condescending she sounds but then the Quantum ranger reminds himself who she's related to and gives her the benefit of the doubt. If only to save himself from cursing out arrogant yellow blond rangers (Eric's met Summer Landsdown in loo of Wes. He knows. They're all the same: Lily Chapman, Ronny Robinson, Kira Ford, Ashley Hammond, headstrong and the only exception that he can truly think of is that Emily girl, from the team before Gia's own) So he bites back. "Consider it a strongly worded suggestion from the person whose name this house is in." Gia rolls her eyes and huffs as she begins to follow him out into the kitchen and Eric can almost hear the attitude of hers rolling off in waves. Eric's self control levels are to the max.


That first day out Gia understands the allure that has her sister drawn to the man, even if every move he makes convinces Gia think that Eric Meyers has a stick up his ass. It's that, though begrudgingly stubborn, his intentions are for the best. This is most apparent when Gia opens the fridge door and finds a jar full of jelly contaminating the whole integrity of every content sharing space within the food preserver. Grape jelly to be precise. It's not a common thing but the allergy has put a damper on many a fruit salad in her mother's time. Of course, her allergy had to be so severe that even being in the same vicinity of such a food has caused her to break out in hives and, if gone untreated for a certain amount of time, the repercussions are detrimental. So when Gia slams the door in haste, Eric just looks up from his paper that he's taken to reading and just glares. "What now?"

"I'm allergic to grapes." Gia grumbles unbecomingly. And for a split second, a pause for alarm passes across Eric's face but it is replaced as he quickly jumps straight into action.

Hastily standing up to grab his keys, Eric motions with his head for her to follow. "Come on." He all but commands but for once Gia feels that it might be in her best interest to listen. "We're stocking up on new food. I'll clean the fridge out when we get back home." Gia's not sure if he's demanding she come with her because he doesn't trust her alone in the house or because he's genuinely concerned for her state of health at that second but Gia goes anyway. She thinks that there may be more to the jackass than rules and regulations.

After the food fiasco, it's clear that Eric Meyers is a man of his word. Like he said he would, he cleaned out all the items from the fridge (ordering her to stay sitting on the porch until he had trashed, wiped down, and replaced everything in there), Gia finds it almost admirable if she were inclined to have such a feeling for someone who clearly has no reason to interact with her except...oh yeah, he's banging her sister! In fact Gia soon learns that Taylor is rarely at home until the late evenings. Apparently, she picked up teaching others how to pilot, after she had served her time in the air force. When Eric tells Gia this, she supposes that he expects her to just nod along and say cool like any other younger sibling but instead the younger feistier blond goes for something that makes Eric almost choke on his ever consistent black coffee:

"Hmmm, that's how Daddy croaked." and just walks away from the sputtering Quantum Ranger. Later, that night when she pretends to be asleep, she can hear the raised voices of Taylor and her boyfriend. The words planes, crashes, and their father's name is being thrown around like a used napkin. Finally, one door slams and hers creaks open. Gia can feel the light from the hallway shining through as someone peers in watching over her. How long they watch her, Gia is unsure but she thinks that she might have screwed up. What can she say, she's always been less than perfect. The door closes and Gia falls asleep.


When Eric finally does go back to work (apparently it was a good idea to observe how well Gia was adjusting) because he still for some reason doesn't trust her alone in the house, the order is made that she's to join him at the Silver Hills Headquarters. With her own bite back Eric is once again reminded how much he's irritated by Taylor through means of her little sister.

"Uh no," Gia drawls out, arms crossed, and hip jutted with a look on her face saying that she has no idea how he became the head officer because he's clearly not that sharp. "What will people think when they see me get out of a Silver Guardian cruiser?"

Eric knows it's rhetorical but he can't help himself. "Someone tried to cry their way out one too many speeding tickets?" He deadpanned.

Gia huffed. "As if, they'll think I just been taken in for shoplifting! Do you know what my mother will say if one of her friends from Silver Hills sees me entering a police station?"

At this Eric raised a brow. He was under the impression that Doreen Earhardt, or maybe it's Moran now, didn't give a damn about her children since she sold her soul for money. "I doubt she'll care." and that's the end of the discussion. Gia hates it and more by the day, she hates how right Eric is.


Somehow, their days and nights go as follows. Gia wakes up and signs on for classes and Eric goes to work. Later when he returns, they squabble over what to eat and who's going to cook but eventually they both end up on opposite ends of the couch, watching the TV drone on, like their days and nights. It's almost an unwritten rule that they don't speak to one another, until Eric decides that he needed to screw everything up.

"She never said anything." The man tells her, not bothering to take his eyes off the screen. When Gia just stares at him with the ultimate feeling of a thousand ton weights hitting her chest, he decides to elaborate. "Taylor. She never said anything about having a sister." Refocusing on the movie in front of her, Gia realizes that she never thought Eric Meyers was a jackass. He just seemed like the perfect scapegoat for Taylor Earhardt's perfect no-strings-attached non-dysfunctional family life. Because he's the closest thing that her sister ever let in.

Feeling the suffocation surround her, Gia gets up abruptly and makes an excuse about going to bed with a headache. She hears Eric get up too and she feels his eyes burn holes in her back but not once does he try to make a stride to comfort her. For that, she's grateful.


It's one day when Gia is at Silver Hills Headquarters that might make her reconsider this whole idea of being a free floater in the post ranger life. The once yellow crime fighter is typing away on her laptop, when she sees a particularly perky Wes Collins strutt in with pep to his step. Both her and Eric share a raised eyebrow from where they are but Eric makes no move from his desk and nor does Gia from her chair. They'll find out soon enough. The young adult has come to learn that Wes is one of the most positive person she's encountered and that his emotions are very infectious.

Humming a little tune, Wes shuffles over to the calendar and points to the date for show. "Guess what today is?" He tells the both of them but Eric only shakes his head and returns to the paperwork.

"March 20th?" Gia states with a curious smile.

"Yep!" Wes pops the 'p' with enthusiasm. "First day of Spring." He ends wistfully.

At that point, Eric's head shoots up and for whatever reason (though Gia finds it comical) the man has a panicked look upon his face. "Dammit Wes, you were suppose to warn me!"

The former Red Red Time Force Ranger just shrugs and let's out a little bit of a chuckle while shaking his head. Suddenly, a mocking voice cuts through the air. "Aww Eric, and here I thought you'd be excited to see me." A long blond haired girl smirks as she leans up against the doorway.

Eric scoffs. "I would have rather had the Tate kid. At least he has an understanding of sanity, peace, and quiet."

The girl just rolls her eyes and hops along to have Wes engulf her in his embrace. Gia has never felt to be one to intrude but she certainly finds herself viewing this moment as an outsider. After Wes pecks a kiss to the girl's forehead, she takes notice of Gia. "You're Gia Moran. Taylor's sister, right?" The younger girl all but grimaces at the title. But that's what she is now.

"Yeah, I just moved here from Harwood."

"Summer Landsdown." And suddenly it hits Gia why the girl is so familiar. She's Wes' - person? Could have been daughter? The girl technically is but in one dimension he's dead and she never knew her family. Makes Gia wonder how unconditional love can transcend worlds but two sisters can't stand to acknowledge the other.

They all go out to dinner Eric, Wes, Summer, and Gia. It's actually relaxing, so much so that when the Megaforce ranger feels her phone vibrate, she ignores the text from Jake. Then, Taylor shows up.

Taylor says hi to everyone in general before going over and giving Summer, who's sitting beside Gia, a hug and whispering happy birthday. It makes her want to puke because of birthdays forgotten(ignored!).

As the night goes on, laughs are exchanged, conversations lead to debates, stories are told but the only words that Gia and Taylor share to one another is "can you pass the ketchup?" To which Taylor just does, without even glancing her way. Finally, it's enough. Braving a convincing(fake!) smile Gia excuses herself to the ladies room hearing the scathing giggle of a tipsy Taylor saying along the lines of "powdering her nose".

As Gia breathes in and out deeply, hunched over the sink, remembering the parts of her that are her and real, Summer steps in.

For ten full minutes, Summer says nothing. Gia knows, she counted. Then she says something that leaves a sour taste in her mouth. "Sky hates me too." The RPM girl recalls nonchalantly, running her fingers through her long thick hair. "And I want to loath him just as much with everything within me but I can't." Gia's face of confusion and disgust doesn't unsettle the veteran Yellow one bit. "But… I pretend to. At ranger reunions we'll bicker and send jabs at one another, in front of our friends and teammates. And when Wes chooses Sky over me in certain events, the cruel smirk he sends me doesn't go unnoticed. However, when the opposite happens and I see the hurt in his face while Wes drags me away… I don't get a pleasure out of it. When we're alone together- because you know that fate wants to see how we are when we're the only ones to interact… I pretend to." To Gia things become clearer and muddled once more, with each one of Summer's words. "I pretend to hate him. It's easier that way. Easier than me being bitter to my boyfriend or my best friend on why the person who is supposed to care doesn't. Easier than admitting that maybe, to some people, even the closest ones, I'm not worth the effort of being loved." Gia nods, not knowing how else to respond because everything was so right. "That saying: blood is thicker than water. There's another one: blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family, and in many cases water is healthier."

Summer walked out and Gia's resentment walked back in.


AN:/ So this is the second installment of Gia's little chapter. The next one will certainly be the last! I want to give as many characters time in the spotlight so the next chapter might not be her chapter at all but it will come soon. Please Review and tell me what you think!