Brie was enjoying getting the chance to hold her young nephew as Chas looked on, marvelling at the image. It was now the final month of her pregnancy, and so the baby could come at any time.

"He's so beautiful." Brie whispered, handing him back to Ziggy.

"How did this happen?" Chas asked him. "I only saw Tenaya a week ago, and she didn't look anywhere near ready to give birth."

"She was kidnapped by Killobyte." Ziggy informed them. "He said he wanted to experiment on the baby, but he didn't want to wait for him to be born, so he injected her with some kind of serum that advanced the pregnancy."

"I'm so jealous." Brie muttered. "You don't have the joy of all those months of carrying him to look forward to."

"Well this way wasn't so much fun either." Tenaya assured her. "I went through eight months of pregnancy in one night. According to Dr. K if it hadn't been for the implants I probably wouldn't have survived the strain it put on my body."

"Well I'm pleased everything worked out for the best." Bob told them as he looked over at his grandson. "He's completely amazing."

Tenaya looked over to Ms. Foster, sharing an understanding. Helen was giving her an opportunity to tell Ziggy how she had been feeling since the birth, so he could hear it from Tenaya. She knew that Ziggy and the others suspected something wasn't exactly right with her, but so far she had done everything she could to avoid the subject. She was grateful that Helen seemed to be giving her the chance to approach the subject on her own.

"Anyway, why don't you have Alex stay for dinner?" Bob suggested. "I think it's only right he meets the whole family."

"Summer and Dillon..."

"He means the kids." Ziggy interrupted Brie. "I grew up in orphanages. These kids mean the world to me; they're basically my brothers and sisters."

"Well it looks like this little guy's got a seriously large family." Chas commented with a little grin as he thought about it. "Talk about having a lot of people looking out for you."

"He really does." Ziggy responded, causing Tenaya to smile a little. She had felt so overwhelmed before. Seeing the way they were all gathered around, she could see that she had been looking at it all wrong.

"I was actually wondering if I could clean up a little before dinner." Tenaya told them. "Ziggy could you come with me?"

Ziggy looked between Tenaya and his mother, sensing something between them that let him know that something was going on. He had an idea that something was going on with Tenaya, but so far she hadn't been able to open up to him about it. He had a feeling his mom had done her usual stellar job of interfering, and that Tenaya was finally ready to tell him what was going on.

"Would you mind taking Alex for a little while?" Ziggy asked Chas, handing over the baby. Chas accepted him, grateful for the opportunity to get used to handling a baby before Brie gave birth. Tenaya and Ziggy made their way upstairs, into one of the main bathrooms and closed the door. Ziggy turned to face her.

"What do you want to talk about?" He asked her. Tenaya sat on the edge of the bath, and gestured for Ziggy to do likewise. She took a deep breath as she tried to sort through the thoughts racing through her brain and the conflicting, destructive emotions tearing at every inch of her heart.

"Ziggy, I want to talk about Alex." She began sadly. "I think I might have a problem."

Ziggy held her hand and just sat, waiting on her to begin. He could already see from her expression that things were a lot more serious than she had so far allowed herself to show. He was just happy that she was finally trying to tell him what he problem was.

In an Italian restaurant across town, Dillon and Summer arrived to find Flynn and Sam waiting for them. He had called them a little while ago to confirm their plans to meet up after talking to Sam. They had already tipped the head waiter to get them a good table.

"Well now I feel kind of bad. We invited you out, and you guys end up paying for a decent table." Summer commented as they sat down. The head waiter offered to take their jackets, but Summer and the others refused. They knew that it was possible they'd be called on to go into battle, and it wasn't as though they would be able to wait at the cloak room for their coats to be returned if there was an attack bot sent into the city. The head waiter would probably have insisted, but she was sure having their jackets hanging on the back of their chairs would do his business no harm at all. After all, who wouldn't want their customers to know that the Power Rangers ate in their restaurant? "How's work been?"

"It's been pretty busy, but I think we've broken the back of it." She told him as she made herself comfortable. "Fortunately Venjix has been quiet. We've still gotten a little bit of a backlog from the gang war. I'm telling you, at one point we didn't have enough cold storage. We had to borrow some from..."

Her words tailed off as she looked around. Sometimes this was a little bit of an occupational hazard. She sometimes forgot that what was considered 'small talk' among her peers at the forensic lab would be uncomfortable conversation, especially when people were getting ready to eat. She doubted the others needed to hear that they had been forced to borrow storage space from the ice cream parlour across the street while they identified all the dead, not to mention it would be unlikely to do his business any good once people found out his freezers had held more than just double chocolate and strawberry blitz.

"Sorry, I'll shut up now." She told them. "Have to remember you don't need the details."

"Sam was interested in your idea." Flynn told them, shaking his head a little. While he loved her dearly, her job did make him a little uncomfortable. He had visited her in the lab a few times, but was perfectly happy to remain ignorant of the amount of time she spent among corpses.

"Well I was planning on something small anyway." She told them quietly. "I was the only one who made it to Corinth, it's not like there were going to be many people on my side of the guest list anyway. I figured there'd be a lot of similarities between my guest list and Summer's."

"We'd love to share the day with you." Flynn chipped in, putting his arm around her and holding her closely. "We were planning on making everything official between us before the baby arrives."

"It isn't long until your first scan is it?" Summer asked them as she pulled a little closer. Flynn and Dillon had to try hard not to comment on her enthusiasm. Since Alex had been born and Brie was due to give birth in about a month's time, she had started to become more than a little bit over excitable around the subject of children.

"I've scheduled an appointment for next week." She informed them as a waiter came with some menus. "Flynn told me about Ziggy, that all seems kind of strange. Are they alright?"

"Ziggy seems to really be excited about fatherhood, he's really been amazing since Alex was born." Summer gushed, thinking about the newest arrival in her family. "Tenaya seems a little tired and nervous, but I guess that's kind of to be expected given the way everything went down. Alex is just adorable though. He's really cute, he's so tiny. I just can't get enough of him."

"Would you like to hear the specials?" The waiter asked them, bringing their attention to him. Summer didn't look too happy about being interrupted when she was going on about her nephew, but then she was running on a little, and he did have a job to do.

"That's alright; we're just looking for the pre-theatre menu." Flynn told him. "Are we going for the two or three course?"

"I could manage a dessert." Summer said with a shrug.

"I have kind of a sweet tooth too." Sam added. Dillon and Flynn both started looking through to decide what they would like. "So what's the soup of the day?"

Back at the orphanage, Ziggy was still in the bathroom with Tenaya, waiting for her to find the words to explain what the problem was.

"Tenaya, we're a family, if there's something wrong you can tell me." He reminded her, squeezing her hand a little to remind her he was there. "Just take your time."

"I'm just really confused." She told him as she started to gather her thoughts as coherently as she could. "Since he was born, he was like a part of me. I felt this connection to him that I've never felt for anything before, I love him so much."

"Then what's the problem?" He asked her.

"It isn't the only thing I've been feeling." She informed him. "Ever since that first night, when I couldn't stop him crying...when I didn't know how to feed him, I've been feeling all sorts of things I never wanted to. I feel scared any time I come across something I can't understand. When he feels hot, I worry about what it means. When he screams I don't know what he wants. I just panic when I don't know what to do, and I get frustrated when I can't get him to stop."

"Tenaya, you can't blame yourself for any of that." He told her reassuringly. "I feel a lot of the same things. I don't know what I'm doing half the time, and the other half, I just kind of wing it and hope for the best. It's a learning process, we'll figure it out."

"What if I don't though?" She asked him. "I can't see any way out I just feel trapped and lonely all the time. It's like everyone expects so much from me. It's like Alex is born and I'm just meant to magically know what every cry means, when he need fed, when he wants to be held..."

"Tenaya, no one expects you to pick all of this up right away." Ziggy reminded her sympathetically.

"It feels like it though." She sighed sadly. "I just feel confused and frightened and frustrated all the time to the point, I can't just feel happy when I look at my son, and I don't want to feel like that. I want it all to stop; I just want to feel like everyone else does."

She paused for a second and wiped away a tear as she considered her next words carefully.

"When I was in the bathroom earlier, I wasn't...you know..." She mumbled as she tried to get the words out. "I heard him screaming, and I tried to make him stop, but I just couldn't. Nothing I did seemed to make a difference...I just had to get out of there. I wasn't in the bathroom because I needed anything; I was there because I ran. I feel like I'm not good enough for him. That's why I let everyone else deal with him. I thought he'd be better off without me."

"Tenaya that's not true." He told her.

"I just don't want anything to happen to him because I don't know what I'm doing." She replied as he held her tightly. "I love him so much; I couldn't bear it if he got hurt because of me..."

"You don't have to face this alone, we're all here." He assured her. "Mom and dad are willing to help, Chas and Brie seem to be really taken with the little guy, and I'm starting to worry Summer might just want to kidnap him the way she fawns over him. We'll all help you in any way we can."

He pulled away from her, smiling a little, finally happy to know what was going on in her head.

"I've seen the way Alex looks at you when you hold him. He could never be better off without you." He said softly, looking into her eyes. "You're not doing this alone. You don't need to feel overwhelmed."

"It really means a lot to me to hear that." She told him. "I really do need some help with all of this. I'm still completely lost..."

"Join the club." He told her as he hugged her tightly.

Back at the restaurant, the waiter was just clearing away the dishes from the dessert as Summer continued to explain her idea to Sam.

"I made an appointment to see the chaplain tomorrow." Summer told her, taking a sip of coffee. "I could try to get an appointment a couple of weeks."

"That sounds like it would be great." Sam told them, only to frown as her pager sounded. She pulled it out and looked at it, and seemed to get a little flustered as she saw the message. "Sorry to love you and leave you guys, but I need to make tracks."

"Is everything alright?" Flynn asked her. Sam looked at him and smiled.

"It's sweet that you worry, but I'm a big girl. They just need me back at the lab." She told him. "I'll get a cab..."

"Dillon, could I keep the car a little longer?" Flynn asked him. Dillon just nodded in response.

"Sure, we'll get the head waiter to call us a cab." He told them. "Hope everything turns out alright Sam."

"Its fine, I'll call you tomorrow to sort out the details." She responded. "Flynn, we should get going."

As they left, Dillon looked at Summer, a little curiously.

"I wonder what that was about." He commented. "She couldn't get out of here fast enough."

"It's like she said, she was needed at the lab." Summer stated as she started to gather her things.

"I'm not that worried about what she's doing." Dillon remarked as the waiter came back. "I'm just a little sore about the fact they left before the check came." Summer just laughed as they got out their wallets.

It was beginning to get late by the time Ziggy and Tenaya arrived back in the Garage, finding that Summer and Dillon had beaten them back. Tenaya took Alex up to their room as Ziggy greeted them.

"How was dinner?" He asked them.

"It was nice." Summer told him. "It's not often we get to eat out."

"Where is everyone?" He asked them, looking around curiously.

"Scott and Dr. K went out somewhere. I think she wanted some time alone with him." Summer informed him. "Gem's in the lab trying out some stuff for the fireworks we agreed to let him arrange for the wedding."

"I have a feeling I'm going to regret that." Dillon told him. "Gemma went to see Hicks, but she isn't back yet."

"I noticed Tenaya took the baby upstairs." Summer said quietly, approaching the subject that had troubled her a little earlier.

"The little guy had a big day. He's completely wiped out." Ziggy replied with a bright smile on his face. "I introduced him to the whole family. He does have a lot of them."

"Is Tenaya feeling alright?" She asked him. "I noticed she was a little distant earlier."

"She's finding it all a bit of a big adjustment." Ziggy told them both. "We got a chance to talk. I think I made her feel a little better about it all, I just wish there was more I could do."

"It's alright; you know we'll help out." Summer assured him.

Dillon just got up and headed towards Ziggy and Tenaya's room.

"Dillon..."

"It's alright Summer, I just want to talk to my sister a while." Dillon told her. "Could the two of you just give me a little while?"

Tenaya was laying Alex down in the crib as he arrived. He had been so excited and over stimulated by meeting all the new faces that he had fallen asleep in her arms long before he hit the mattress. Tenaya pulled the covers over him gently and looked down on him a little sadly.

"I heard he had a big day." Dillon began, putting an arm around her shoulders. Tenaya just nodded.

"He's exhausted." She told him. "He'll definitely sleep well tonight."

"Ziggy told me you talked to him." Dillon informed her. Tenaya wasn't angry; she knew it was something that they would have to talk about if the others were going to help her through this. "It's alright; I know you'll be fine."

"I know you'll be there to help me, it really means a lot to me." She murmured. "I'm still really worried though."

"Of course you are, I'd be worried if you weren't." Dillon told her.

"It's just...I don't know if I even have it in me to take care of others." She admitted as she watched Alex sleeping. "I've never taken care of anything in my life."

"Tenaya..."

"First Venjix took care of everything for me, and then when I came here, you all took care of me, especially Ziggy." She sniffed, looking down on him. "Even Julie was helpless. Maybe that's just who I am."

Dillon took her by the shoulders and sat her down on the edge of the bed and looked into her eyes.

"You'll be fine." He told her flatly. He took another deep breath as he paused. "Tenaya, I'm sorry, but this is partly my fault. I didn't want to stress you out any more than you already were because of the baby."

"What are you talking about?" Tenaya asked him. He sat on the bed next to her.

"I had full recall because of the key, you haven't." He explained. "I remember everything, you don't. I always meant to tell you, but like I said, the time was never right."

He smiled at her and held her closely.

"Let me tell you about the Julie Kitchner I remember."