"It's too early," Josh murmured as he looked over at his alarm clock and groaned. He had gotten to bed at a decent hour last night, but he had not had any good dreams last night. Each one had ended in Grace dying in his arms and if that happened he wasn't sure that he could deal with every emotion that would run through him at that point. He had held Baker when he died, he couldn't lose Grace the same way.

He slowly forced himself out of bed and then walked over to the bathroom. He was really going to have to hurry if he was going to get to work on time. It was one thing if he was running late for oversleeping, but it was another if he was late because of a battle. Even if he was not a ranger anymore Tommy would kill him if he was late for no good reason. He was his own worst enemy when he lectured people on that one.

"Someone's running late," Tommy said as Josh ran by him in the hall way and he smiled at him.

"Go to hell," Josh muttered as Tommy laughed and then walked back to stand next to his door.

"Lucky that you don't have a class," Tommy said sarcastically as Josh looked back at him and he refrained himself from yelling a loud obscenity in Tommy's direction. He knew that that was not in the least bit acceptable, but so was dating a student and he had thrown that rule right out the window.

"Good morning class," Josh said as he walked in and placed his bag under the desk. "Sorry that I'm running late."

"I guess that's a trait all the ranger leaders inherit," Aiden whispered as he passed and Josh glared over at him. "I have worse news."

"Worse news?" Josh asked as he opened the door and Aiden nodded his head. "After class, my night was bad enough."

"Get a move on Mr. Fitzpatrick!" one of the students yelled as Josh looked back at him and his mouth shut.

"It's the beginning of your last nine weeks here, you sure that you don't want to do the projects I have planned?" Josh asked as the kids looked at him. "Cut and paste time, no time to make me mad."

"Even I can agree with that," Brian said as Josh laughed. He was the most fickle of their rangers this time around.

"Come on in guys," Josh said as he motioned for all of them to follow him into the room. "Aiden, I'm going to hold you to this."

"I know," Aiden murmured as he sighed and then headed to the back of the room. Grace gave him a look and then kept on moving herself. If the two of them were in on something, she was sure that she didn't want to know about it. Their plans were never good.

"What's going on?" Josh asked as Aiden packed up his stuff and looked over at him. "That's not a good look."

"Mom and Dad are heading out to Florida at the end of next week, they're going to be going to the annual conference. Guess who's in charge of watching us," Aiden said as Josh grimaced. He didn't even have to guess that one, he already knew it.

"Your grandmother," Josh murmured. "And let me take another wild guess, I'm the mentor next week."

"Lucky guess," Aiden said as Josh sighed. "Dad was going to break the news to you when you got here this morning, but you were late. So I got the fun job of doing this, I guess I'm going to need a hall pass, I've got more."

"What's more?" Josh asked as Aiden laughed.

"We're going after the bastard, really pushing for this to end sooner than normal . Dad wants to implement a new phase starting today," Aiden said as he watched Josh groan. "Yeah."

"Any good news?" he asked as Aiden cringed. He had hoped that Josh wouldn't ask that. He hated the way that the two of them were trying to figure out what was wrong with Grace, but it was the only way that they'd ever get down to the bottom of it.

"Not really, Grace hasn't said any more since the other night. Something is really wrong, she honestly has a feeling that things are going to go bad, really bad. I can't get her to shake it," Aiden said as Josh looked down.

"Baker was the same way, he knew something bad was going to happen to him and we just let him keep going," Josh murmured as he looked across at Aiden. "Have you told your dad?"

"No, I'm not sure I can." He said as he turned around and his ponytail swung in his wake. "I can't."

"I'll do it, it was my idea to put us in this mess anyway," Josh said as Aiden looked over at him. "I've dealt with this before with your dad. The news will be bad if it comes from me, it will be worse from you. She's your twin, you know things about her than I'll never know, probably things I don't want to know. If you tell your dad, he'll ask if you have the odd sixth sense thing, won't ask me the same thing. I don't have one."

"I'm not so sure about that," Aiden said looking at Josh. "You seem to be getting one as well."

"I don't have one, it's called being around her more than I should be," Josh whispered as he saw a student peak in and then duck back out. "Any way, it's something that we need to talk about later. I'm not too worried about what's going to happen."

"Famous last words."