Hayley sat on her front porch, waiting for Sarah and Jenny to arrive. She had sent an emergency text to Sarah just a few minutes before saying she needed to come over and telling her that Kelly wasn't well. Hayley had awoken to the sound of Kelly crying, and when her attempts to console her only made Kelly more upset, she knew she would need help.

Jenny's car pulled into the driveway and Hayley saw Jenny, Sarah and Calvin climb out. She frowned, seeing her boyfriend had tagged along.

"I was at their house when you texted," Calvin explained. "I needed to clear my head."

Hayley nodded then turned to Jenny and Sarah, "She just snapped. I can't get a word out of her. Mom and dad are in there now but she's still flipping out."

Sarah rushed inside the house. She didn't need to know more. She made her way past the Foster parents and up to Kelly and Hayley's room. She knocked before she opened the door slowly and saw Kelly sitting in her bed, drenched in sweat and trembling as she tried to hold back her sobs.

"She just stopped," Ann, Hayley's mother, told Sarah. "But she won't talk."

Sarah nodded and sat down next to her girlfriend. Ann, joined by Jenny, tried to stay to see what was going on, but Sarah asked them to leave. She had a feeling she knew what happened and she regretted letting Kelly convince her to wait until morning to talk.

"I'll be fine," she promised them as they shut the door. Sarah then turned to Kelly, "Is it what I think it is?"

"He's not dead," Kelly whispered. "I thought he was but… he was just here."

"Who?"

"Drex."

"Drex died in the explosion," Sarah said.

"He was here," Kelly said. "He came in, while I was sleeping and… he did it again."

"He did what?" Sarah asked. She wouldn't utter the words herself. She didn't want to put her ideas in Kelly's head. If something happened, Kelly needed to say it for herself.

However, Kelly did confirm what Sarah suspected, "He raped me."

Sarah felt her blood boil. She knew anytime Drex was alone with a girl, he would try to force himself onto her. He had tried twice with the pink Ranger, but Sarah had been able to hold him off. It had been no easy task. Sarah had to use all the strength she had and then some to get herself out of trouble.

"Kelly…"

"And he did it again," Kelly whispered.

"When?"

"Now," she said. Sarah looked around the room and there was no sign that Drex had been near it. The sheets were wet, but Kelly was drenched in sweat. There was no sign of a break in and Hayley had been in the room with Kelly resting. She would have known if it happened.

"I think it was a nightmare."

"He was here!" Kelly shouted.

"Okay, okay," Sarah conceded, because really, it didn't matter what the truth was. Whether Drex had been in the room or not, he had just violated Kelly again. So, Sarah put her arm around her girlfriend and held her. "He's not here anymore. You're safe now. He's dead."

"But…"

"I'll prove it to you," Sarah told her. "We'll find his body, or anything that shows you he's dead for good. Whatever you need, we'll do it."

-Ninja-Steel-

"You know, you're kind of becoming this kid's Serena," Rebecca pointed out to Gia as the Silver Guardian strapped on her vest. It wasn't often Gia liked to work nights, but when duty called, she knew she had to answer.

Going back to work had been tough without Jordan, but Gia knew he would want her to keep going. He would want her to continue helping people in anyway she could. She also knew that, though he couldn't be replaced, Jordan would want her to work with a partner. She always did better when she had someone reminding her not to do anything stupid.

She didn't like trusting strangers, especially with her life, so she had hired Rebecca to be her partner. She knew she worked well with her and Rebecca was only too eager to take the job.

"Turns out, I like helping."

"No one's saying otherwise," Rebecca said. "So, you're just going to take her and her girlfriend to the spot where an alien spaceship blew up to find a body?"

"Yep."

"Okay, I'd have more luck telling you what colour the walls are than you have of finding one specific body at the site of an explosion."

"The walls are grey."

"Oh, that's boring," Rebecca muttered. "You couldn't colour them like… orange or purple or something a little more fun."

"Good idea," Gia muttered sarcastically. "And while we're at it, maybe I'll tell Wes and Eric to rename us the Purple Guardians."

"Hey, just because the name is silver, doesn't mean the walls have to be," Rebecca muttered.

"You're blind. Just pretend the walls are whatever colour you want," Gia said. "Are you going to be fine here by yourself?"

"Isn't Tiger staying with me?"

"Tiger's coming," Gia said. "Just because the ship blew up, doesn't mean all the monsters are dead. Tiger can warn us in case there's trouble."

"Do you want me to come?"

"I'll be fine," Gia promised. She took Tiger down to her truck and drove out to the quarry in Summer Cove. Unlike her own monsters, it seemed Galvanax didn't feel the need to level an entire city in his final battle and instead settled on a place where there would be no civilian casualties. It made Gia's job a lot easier, since she would often be called when Ranger battles made a mess.

When she finally made it out to the quarry, she hopped out of the truck and let Tiger out. She had been by once already to block off access to the quarry to the public and examine the site herself to confirm the death toll (humans: one. Monsters: seventy-two). She knew where Drex's body was and would be able to lead Sarah and her girlfriend straight there.

They arrived on Sarah's hoverboard. When they hopped off, Kelly was immediately alarmed by Tiger's presence, but Sarah called the big cat over. Tiger was only to happy to oblige as she remembered Sarah from a rescue and knew her as the only human to get so close to her without freaking out at first. Tiger had jumped in to protect Sarah while Gia and Jordan dealt with her captors, and instead of trying to run from the cat, Sarah had been excited to be so close to a tiger.

Kelly was in complete shock when she saw her girlfriend get tackled by Tiger, and then when the cat rolled over to get her stomach scratched.

"You're absolutely insane," she told Sarah, who looked up with a laugh.

"You've met Gia before, right?"

"At the Ribbon Tree," Kelly nodded as Gia approached. She shook the Guardian's hand. "You're Sarah's friend?"

"Here to help," Gia smiled. "She tells me you're looking for a body."

"Drex," Sarah said. "Kelly needs to know he's dead."

"Can I ask why?" Gia asked. Sarah turned to Kelly and offered a little nod.

"She might be able to help if you tell her. It is her job."

"But he's dead. What is she going to do?"

"She doesn't just arrest people," Sarah said. "She helped me help Melanie."

"My job is about helping people," Gia told Kelly with a smile. "Sometimes, the handcuffs just get a lot of use for my job to get done."

"Tell her," Sarah said. Kelly took a deep breath.

"You… you know how he's a pimp, right?"

"Charged him," Gia nodded. "And I have a brain that doesn't forget."

"Gia's a Ranger, so you can tell her the whole story," Sarah said.

Kelly nodded then pointed to the ship, "When Drex brought me up there after taking me… the first thing he did was made me… have sex with him."

"What do you mean?" Gia asked and all her mental alarms were going off.

"He raped me," Kelly admitted. "And… he just came back, just an hour ago, and he did it again."

"That was a nightmare," Gia said then walked with Kelly over to the spot where she had left Drex's body for the clean-up crew. She found him exactly as she left him – very obviously dead. "But they feel real, don't they?"

Kelly nodded. She didn't want to believe that she had imagined the second rape, but seeing Drex's dead body for herself, she knew she had to believe Sarah and Gia. She knew it needed to be a nightmare and not reality. Her eyes started to well up with tears. Gia turned to Sarah.

"Hey, Tiger's been on duty since last night and needs to be played with a bit. Mind heading back to the truck and getting her ball? She loves when you kick it around for her."

"Are you going to be okay?" Sarah asked Kelly, who nodded.

"I think so."

"I've got this," Gia promised. Sarah smiled, grabbed Tiger by the vest and walked with her to the truck. Gia kicked over some of the debris to cover Drex's face and then found a spot where she and Kelly could sit down.

Kelly let out a heavy sigh, "You probably think I'm nuts," she said. "Telling you Drex raped me again when he's dead."

"You're not nuts," Gia said. "It's trauma. Your body doesn't know what to do and your brain is still trying to process what happened. It's going to relieve it all, again and again. With nightmares and flashbacks and… all that stuff that's going to make life hell."

"Is that what they told you at the Academy?"

"It's what happened to me," Gia sad. "I don't go around advertising it. In my line of work, I can't have criminals knowing what might set me off but before I was a Guardian, I was raped too."

"Really?"

"My family knows. My friends know. They help me through it. I still have bad days where all I can think about is the times when it happened."

"Times?"

"Until my husband, I was lousy at picking men," Gia said. "But my husband, god, I made him work so hard," Gia chuckled. "But he managed. He proved to me that I was worth more than what I believed. He showed me that just because something horrific had happened to me, that it didn't mean I deserved it. In fact, all my friends showed me that."

"I tried to fight him off, I really did…"

"Kelly, I don't need to know what you did. I don't need to know if you fought, if you complied, if you wanted to at first and then didn't, if you were drunk, sober, or wearing a mini-skirt and bra. All I need to know is how you perceived the act. Did you want it to happen? If not, it's rape, and it's not your fault."

"I didn't want it," Kelly said.

"Do you have a phone?" Gia asked and Kelly took it from her pocket. The Silver Guardian took it.

"I'm putting in my work number, with the extension, my partner's number, and my personal number. Anytime you feel like this is too much, like you need to talk, or like everyone around you just doesn't get it and you're going nuts, call. Even at three AM. Deal?"

"You'll take my call at three in the morning?"

"Or in the afternoon," Gia nodded and smiled. "If you need anything, from a reminder than you're not what he did to you, to who to speak to about this, or anything else, you give me a call. If you need to see again that Drex is dead, give me a call."

"I want him dead and buried."

"How about burned?" Gia suggested. "I didn't tell the city about Drex. He was working for the monsters, that makes him a monster. If he goes missing, no one will know."

"What?"

"There's matches in my truck," Gia said. "And gasoline. Light his ass on fire."

"You're police!" Kelly said with a chuckle. "Shouldn't you be steering me away from arson?"

"I couldn't sleep well until I knew Cliff was gone for good. You've seen Drex's body. You know he's dead but… it really helped to know he's gone. Like, can't come back to life, gone."

"Now I'm worried he's going to come back to life."

"So burn the fucker," Gia said. "He won't be missed. Besides, he's already dead. Who are you hurting?"

Kelly shrugged her shoulders, so Gia walked her out to the truck and grabbed a match and the gasoline. They walked back to Drex and Gia poured the gas over his body.

"You want to throw the match, or should I?"

"Am I losing eyebrows?" Kelly asked.

"Hopefully not," Gia answered. She swiped the match and created a flame, then handed it to Kelly, "God, I wish I could have done this to Cliff."

Kelly tossed the match and right away Drex's body went up in flames. Gia put her arm around the younger girl.

"You are not another statistic," she said to Kelly. "You're going to have good days and you're going to have days where all you can do is think about Drex. It's okay. It's okay to be happy, it's okay to be sad. It's okay to forget about him and forget this ever happened. It's okay if this is all you can think about it for days, weeks or even months. Just… from one survivor to another, don't let this become your life. Don't let what he did consume you, because the minute you let that happen, that's when he wins again. You're the one with the power now. You have control. This is your life, your body, own it."

"Promise," Kelly nodded.

"Oh, and that one over there," Gia said and turned around to point at Sarah, who was watching the fire with Tiger from a distance. "She's crazy about you for a reason. Listen to her, instead of the voices in your head when you're having a bad day. Because, trust me, she's right. Not them. After all, she brought you here. The voices made you believe Drex was still alive."

Kelly managed a smile and a little laugh, then looked up at Gia, "You're pretty cool, you know."

"I know," Gia nodded. "I have a pet tiger, after all."