Setting: Saturday evening, SRU Headquarters

A/N: This story is set 3 months after Lou died and Leah joined the team.

The Saturday shift went by painstakingly slow. SRU's Team One was on duty, and they were not thrilled to be there, but were making the best of their time. Things started looking up when Sam Braddock, a former member of the team who moved away two months prior to help his sister raise her child, came by to visit. Things started looking up for everyone except for his ex-girlfriend, Juliana Callahan.

"Sam!" Spike cried when he saw his former teammate. A chorus of "Hi!" and "What're you doing here?" sounded from the rest of the team.

"Hey everyone!" Sam said, hugging his friends. "My sister's best friend from childhood is visiting her, so I decided to take a break from helping her and come see you all."

Sam hugged everyone, but when he got to Jules, the two froze for a second.

"Hi, Jules," Sam said, staring at his ex. Jules smiled and gave him a hug; an awkward hug, but a hug.

When the weirdness was over, the team got to chatting. It was getting closer to night and the team was getting antsy.

Jules was getting particularly antsy because of texts she was getting. The team noticed every time her phone would bing, but no one said anything about it at first. Eventually, Wordy asked, "Who is sending you all of these texts?"

Jules groaned and threw her head back. "Jason won't leave me alone."

Everyone on the team knew Jason was Jules' best friend, practically her brother. The two of them grew up together and about a year after Jules moved to Toronto, Jason moved up here too and opened a karate studio.

"Why won't he leave you alone?" Ed asked. Jules was hesitant but told her team why.

"Some of my old friends from high school are getting together tonight and he wants me to come."

"If you want to go, we can cover for you," Leah supplied.

"But I don't want to go," Jules said. "I love my friends, but we didn't really part on good terms. And I do NOT feel like dealing with that right now."

"Is that why you never talk about your friends from high school? Or about anything from that time?" asked Wordy.

Spike cocked his head in thought. "I never really noticed that, but Wordy is right for once. I don't think I have ever heard you talk about high school or anything."

Wordy punched Spike in the shoulder and the two started mock-fighting. Sam calmed them down and then turned to Jules.

"What happened?"

Jules, who clearly did not want to talk about it, puffed out her cheeks. When the guys and Leah didn't stop staring, she caved and blew the air out. "Most of them stopped talking to me because they think I did something that I didn't do. But it's fine, I don't really care that much anymore. I just don't want to have to dive into that tonight."

All of a sudden, Jules' phone started ringing. She picked it up and closed her eyes when she saw that it was Jason calling.

"Just answer it and tell him to stop trying to get you to go," Serge told her.

Jules answered the phone and started protesting, "Jason, I know you want me to go tonight, but I already told you-"

She stopped talking for a second. The team couldn't hear what Jason was saying.

"I'm at the office with the team. Why?"

Jules pulled the phone from her ear, confused. She put it on speaker while saying, "Jason wanted to talk to you guys or something."

The voice that came out of the phone next was not Jason's.

"Hello, Juliana."

Jules stiffened up and she turned to look at Serge. The two shared a panicked expression and Jules turned back to the phone. "I swear to God, if you hurt them, I will end you."

Everyone on Team one looked around at each other in confusion, except for Serge, who took a step closer to Jules.

"Oh, Juliana, I cannot promise anything," the voice on the other end of the phone said.

"What do you want?" Jules asked, a pained expression on her face.

"Do you know where we are?" the voice asked.

"Yes."

"Get here in ten minutes or I will start hurting your friends. Maybe I should start with Jason. Or maybe your blonde friend, what's her name… Kat? Or maybe I'll just have to start with the one that might hurt the most. Tommy."

Jules closed her eyes tight as if trying to imagine away the current situation. "Please, don't hurt any of them."

"That is all dependent on you. Oh, and I'd hurry if I were you."

The line went dead.

"What the hell is going on?" Ed asked, partially shouting.

Jules composed herself and turned to Serge. "We have to go now."

Serge nodded. "Alright everyone, we have a hostage situation. Grab your gear and let's go."

Ed held his hands up. "No one answered my question. And where are we going?"

"The bar on Cedar St." Jules said, avoiding the first question.

Sam stepped in. "Can I come?"

Serge hesitated. "I know you are not going to let us leave without you and we don't have time for arguments. But you better stay in the command truck once we get there. Deal?" Sam nodded and the team went to gear up.

When everyone had piled into the cars, Jules said over the coms, "I know all of you are confused and I promise I will explain everything later, but right now what you need to know is that he will try to get you to turn against me. Yes, there are things that I haven't told you, but I am the same Jules that you have always known. Don't let him get into your head."

There was a pause before Jules added, "I love you all. You are my family." No one said anything else until they got to the bar.

When they arrived, they got out of their cars and set up command and made an entrance plan: Jules would be the negotiator and Wordy and Leah would go in as her back-up. Spike would try to enter from the back as a surprise. Ed would try to find a vantage point to set up his sniper rifle. Serge and Sam would stay in the command truck. Serge had called the local police before they left and a couple officers were on their way to assist.

Jules, Wordy, and Leah approached the building. Jules pulled out her phone and dialed Jason.

The mystery man answered the phone. "My dear, I hope for your friends' sake that you are here."

"I am right outside. Can I come in?" Jules said calmly.

"Yes. I am ready and anxious for your arrival. It has been too long."

"Jules, you don't have to do this," Serge's voice sounded over the coms.

Jules sighed. "Yes, I do."

With that, Jules opened the door and entered the restaurant, followed by her back-up.

When they rounded the corner, Jules saw her old friends sitting at a giant table in the middle of the otherwise empty restaurant. They all turned to look at her, shock on all of their faces except for Jason and his girlfriend, Kat. A man stood at the far end of the table with a gun. When he saw Jules walk in, a maniac look spread across his face.

"Juliana! It is so good to see you."

Jules and her backup stepped closer until the man waived his gun in the air.

"I would stop there if you don't want anything to happen to your friends."

Jules kept her face on the man but turned her eyes to Jason. "Is everyone ok?"

Jason nodded. "Relatively speaking."

The man took notice of Wordy and Leah on either side of Jules with their guns pointed at him.

"I did not say you could bring anyone with you. But since you are all here, welcome to the party!"

Jules stayed calm and turned her eyes back to the man. "Carter, let everyone go. They have nothing to do with this."

"On the contrary," the man, Carter, said. "They have everything to do with this."

Jules paused. "What do you want?"

"Well, you see, 15 years ago I would have said I want you all to myself. Actually, I believe I did say that. And when you left, all I

wanted to do was to get you back." Carter paused. "But I spent 15 long years looking for you. That is enough time to change a person's intentions. Now, I just want to make you suffer for not doing what I said. That is why I'm here now."

Jules digested the information thrown at her. "How did you find me?"

Carter chuckled. "It was easy, actually. I mean, I was so stupid at first, checking any city and town that you have ever been to in your

life. But last year I stopped and decided to look at the last place I knew you were. And when I saw your coach send a package to a Greg Parker on your birthday, I figured that might be something important. So I checked it out and saw that your coach sent a package every year to the same person on your birthday. So I came up here, and I found you."

"But it is June now. My birthday is in February."

"It is?" came Sam's voice over the coms.

"Yes, I found you all of those months ago. Did you really not know? I planned such a good present for you. I know you got it, you just never realized it was me." Carted said. "How upsetting that you didn't recognize my work. Well, now you know."

Jules said nothing, confused about what she just heard.

Carter threw his head back and laughed. "I'm sorry, I cannot do this anymore."

"Do what? Hold these people hostage? Yes, I think you should let them go too," Jules said, wary of Carter's intentions.

Carter stared straight into Jules' eye and said, "No, I can't keep up this charade you have going, silly Juliana. Or should I say, Kimberly?"

Wordy and Leah faltered for a second, which Carter happily picked up on.

"Oh, your team doesn't know?" asked Carter, who then looked at both Wordy and Leah and all around them, as if trying to speak to other team members who weren't there. "Her real name is Kimberly Anne Hart and she's been lying to you about who she for as long as you've known her."

"What is going on?" Sam asked over the coms. Jules, or Kim, heard Serge shush him.

Knowing she needed to get in front of this so Carted wouldn't turn her team against her, Kim said, "Yes, I lied to my team. But I did it to protect everyone from you." She was starting to lose her cool.

Carter giggled like a child. "Struck a nerve, have I?"

"I'm done playing your games, Carter. Tell me what I need to do to get you to leave my friends and my team alone."

Carter thought for a second. "Hmmmmm. Honestly, I am having too much fun watching you squirm right now."

"Too bad you're done," said a voice behind Carter. Carter spun with his gun pointed but before he could do anything, Spike punched him in the face. Spike had come in through the back and had been silently approaching throughout the whole conversation. Carter fell to the ground and Spike knelt down to cuff him. Wordy and Leah rushed forwards, guns aimed at Carter just in case he tried anything. Kim let out a breath that she didn't know she had been holding and slowly walked towards Carter, who was being hauled up by Spike.

"Carter. You are under arrest for harassment, stalking, attempted murder and homicide," Kim said with a stone face. "Take him away."

Spike, Wordy, and Leah lead Carter towards the door where Serge and Sam had come in with a local police officer. Spike read Carter his Miranda Rights then passed him off to the police officer. (A/N I know that Canada doesn't use miranda rights but that is all I know so go with it).

"You need me!" Carter yelled as he was being walked to the cop. "I am the nephew!"

Kim hadn't moved since telling her team to take Carter away. Jason went up to her and opened his arms. She melted into his arms and started crying. He held her tight, trying to calm her down. The rest of her friends from high school were all still confused and did not know what to do, so they stayed in their seats. Her team, half preoccupied with Carter, took notice of her crying, also still in confusion.

Kim let go of Jason and wiped away her tears when her phone started buzzing. She looked at the screen and a puzzled look crossed her face. She looked up at Jason before answering the phone.

"Hello?" she said into the phone. No one could hear who the other person was or what they were saying, but the color drained out of Kim's face. She turned to where Carter was being handed off to the local police and shouted, "Wait!"

She said "I'll call you right back," into the phone and then marched towards Carter.

"Where are they?"

Carter had a sly grin on his face as he said, "I could not possibly know who you mean."

"The twins. Where are they?" Kim said, more forcefully.

"Well," Carter started, "Wherever they are, you better find them soon. They might not have been given any supplies like food or water." There was a glint of evil in his eyes.

Kim restrained herself from punching him in the face. "Tell me what you did with them."

Carter shrugged. "I might remember something about them if you told these men to let me go."

Kim found it harder and harder not to sock him in the jaw, but she held her resolve. "They were your back-up plan. In case things went south for you here."

Carter shrugged again.

Kim shut her eyes tight for a few seconds and then turned to the cop. "Get him out of here."

Carter's eyes widened and he was being dragged away. "You need me! You'll come crawling to me soon enough! I am the nephew!"

As soon as Carter was out the front door, Kim turned started to turn when Serge asked, "What's wrong?"

"Pierre called. Carter took Max and Lily," Kim said, walking to the other side of the room where there weren't as many people. She dialed a number and started talking with someone.

The rest of the room was highly confused. "Who are Max and Lily?" Wordy asked.

"And who'se Pierre?" Sam asked.

Serge, Jason, and Kat shared worried looks. "Pierre is her Step-Father. Max and Lily are her brother and sister," Serge said to the team and the former hostages.

"Technically they are her half-brother and half-sister. They are twins," Jason corrected.

"And this psychopath took them?" Spike asked.

Kim got off the phone and walked over to everyone. "Carter sent Pierre a letter saying that he took the twins. He also took their babysitter. Carter sent a picture of the three of them as proof. Pierre is sending me pictures of everything."

"Where were Pierre and your mom when this happened?" Kat asked.

Kim sighed. "My mom is visiting an old friend in California. Pierre was on a business trip that got rescheduled at the last minute for the same time as Mom's trip. Their babysitter was watching them. Pierre just got home, found the letter, and called me."

Kim was clearly upset but was trying to put on a brave face. Serge noticed.

"Jules, everything is going to be ok," he said, to which he received an angry look.

"Is it, Serge? The twins are only 12! They are not a part of this! I've never even met them! As far as I know, they don't even know I exist! And now he has them!" Kim exploded. After a second she regained her composure. "Sorry, Serge, I just cannot stand the thought of those two innocent kids getting hurt because of me."

Before anyone could say anything, Kim's phone dinged. She opened the text message from Pierre with pictures attached. Her team crowded around her to see the message while her friends from high school stood around, still not totally sure what to do.

Kim finished reading the letter and started looking at the picture of Lily, Max, and their babysitter. The three of them had their hands tied in front of themselves and had gags in their mouths. The two kids seemed to be trying to huddle up to their babysitter.

"They look so scared," Kim said. But then something caught her eye: the babysitter's wrist.

"Jason," Kim started. "Come here and tell me if you see what I see."

The team backed up to let Jason see the phone. She pointed to the girl's wrist in the photo. "Why does this look familiar?"

Jason looked from the picture then up to Tommy, who was standing in the middle their old friends. He subtly pointed to Tommy's wrist and said, "Look."

Kim looked at Tommy then up at Jason in shock. She snapped her head back to Tommy and called, "Tommy! Come here."

Tommy, who before this night hadn't seen the woman calling him over in over a decade, walked over to his former girlfriend.

"Um… What?" Tommy said, not totally sure how to interact with her.

"What is the name of your yellow?" Kim asked as she pointed to his wrist, where he still wore his Dino Thunder Morpher.

Unsure of the reason for the question, Tommy cautiously answered, "Kira. Kira Ford."

Kim turned the phone to him. "That is what Pierre said their babysitter's name is."

Tommy took in the picture: the two children, the terrified looks on their faces, his former ranger teammate, and her look of anger at the camera.

"Wh-?" Tommy tried asking but did not know what exactly to ask.

Kim put down the phone. "Can you track her?"

Tommy shook out of his daze. "I think so. I have to make a call." Tommy walked over to where Kim had made the call to Pierre.

Ed stepped forward in protest. "What is he doing?"

Kim turned towards her team leader. "He might have a way of finding the twins and their babysitter."

"How?" Ed asked.

"The babysitter used to be a student of Tommy's," Jason said.

"And he can track her?!" Leah asked in concern.

"I know that sounds creepy but I swear it's not," Kim tried to fix the situation. She looked down for a couple seconds before looking at her team again. "I know a lot has been thrown at you tonight, and I promise I will explain everything. To everyone," Kim turned to her old friends on that statement. "But right now, finding Lily, Max, and Kira is more important."

Tommy ended his call and walked over to the group. "Ethan, my blue, is currently tracking her… bracelet, and will text me with a location."

"How long should that take?" Kim asked.

"It should take only a minute or two," Tommy supplied.

Kim took a couple steps back so that she could look at everyone in the room without having to turn in circles. She readied herself and said, "I will explain everything to you all tomorrow. You all deserve to know the truth, and I'm sorry I haven't told most of you it. But I have my reasons and… and I'm sorry. For everything that has come from the craziness that is Carter."

No one said anything until Jason moved to stand next to Kim and face everyone. "Everyone come to my Karate studio tomorrow at 10am. Jules… Kim can explain then. I promise you it is a good explanation. "

Tommy's phone buzzed and his face lit up. "Ethan just sent me Kira's location."

Kim looked at Serge, who shared a nod with her. She turned towards her old friends. "You all need to stay here and give my team witness statements about what happened tonight. I know you don't understand everything, just do what you can. Serge and I are going to find the twins and Kira." She and Serge started walking to the door.

"I'm coming," Tommy said.

Kim stopped in her tracks and turned her head back to Tommy, and she could tell it was not a request. She nodded. "Ok. Let's go."

"I want to come," Sam said.

"Sam, stay here with the team," Kim said, still walking away. "Please."

Sam looked a little annoyed as Kim, Serge, and Tommy walked out of the building.

A/N: Hi! I hope you enjoyed the first bit of the story. I know some things are cryptic, but explanations will happen in coming chapters.