A/N: I want to thank all of the wonderful people who have reviewed, and hope you enjoy this chapter.

Two weeks before Christmas

Kim watched her oldest daughter out of the corner of her eye as she tended the baby, Ronny had only come home a few days before hand, and something about her behavior was tugging at the older woman's heart. Maybe it was just the fact that Ronny seemed to be having a hard time adjusting to life post power ranger, something she was sensitive to because she had had several talks with several power rangers about that very thing. But Ronny always turned her down when she offered to talk. Maybe she just needed to give her time to readjust to life with a large family, but she had been living in a manor with her team, so surely she was used to the noise and the constant people underfoot.

Just then the phone rung, which caused Ronny to tense up and go for her shoulder, which was where they had kept their cell phones while on duty. It was probably just a reflex, she still went for her morpher every once in a while when her alarm clock went off, and she hadn't used a morpher since she was Nick's age.

"Hi Kira," Kim said, answering the phone, pinning it against her ear with her shoulder, "What's up?"

Next to her Ronny forced herself to relax, taking a deep breath and slowly letting it out, her parents had told her that it might take her a little while to adjust to a normal life, she couldn't wait until the next racing season, all this seating around doing nothing was killing her. She needed something to do.

"Your sister's on her way over," her mother announced jolting her out of her thoughts.

"Really, that's great," Ronny hoped she sounded happy, but inside she felt ready to scream, she had been looking forward to coming home for the holidays for a while, so why did she feel like she just might explode.

A soft hand was laid on her shoulder, causing her to look up at the soft doe eyes of her mother, "Give it time Ronny," she insisted, "It will get better."

"How.." Ronny didn't even know how to form the question, how had her mother known that she felt like she was going stir crazy.

"It's hard for a power ranger to sit still for long," Kim stated, "Especially when they first come off duty, trust me when I tell you that all of your teammates are just as fidgety as you are at the moment." she paused for a second before adding, "I think Kira was worst actually, but not as bad as your father. Exercise helps, one of the reasons your uncles started their gym."

"Dad told me the same thing last night," Ronny admitted, giving her mother a small smile, "And I know this will get easier, but it still doesn't make me feel like I'm about to explode at any moment."

Kim laughed, "You my dear, are your father's daughter, he told me once that he felt like he was going to explode after he retired."

Downstairs the door open and closed, and a voice called out, "Mom, Ronny, I'm here!"

Kim placed the sleeping baby that she had been rocking into his crib, and reached over to turn the baby monitor on, "Come on, Kira said she has some important news she wanted to tell us."


Kira leaned against the wall, looking at her mother and sister, who had both taken a seat on the couch, Ronny seemed to fidget a little, which Kira totally understood, it had only been a week since her final battle and it took time to unwind from constantly being prepared to fight at a seconds notice.

"I have a record company that's interested in signing me," Kira explained.

"So you're finally going to follow through on sending my team your new album you were working on, two months ago," Ronny said with a smirk.

Kira stuck her tongue out at her older sister, "Ha ha ha, very funny, so it took longer than expected, no big deal, I've kind of been busy planning a wedding."

Kim stood up silently as the girls started to tease one another, some might mistake it as bickering but her two oldest always seemed to poke fun at each other.

"I got to go pick Schuyler up from school, try not to kill each other okay." Kim insisted.

Their mother hadn't been gone long when they heard the door to the garage open and close. Kim hadn't been gone long enough to be her back, and it couldn't have been the other kids or their father so who was it?

Kira and Ronny locked eyes, Ronny pointing to Kira and then herself before making a sweeping motion towards the door that had just opened. Kira nodded, pressing her finger to her lips. Ronny nodded her head in understanding creeping towards the kitchen.

There was pounding coming from the kitchen, whoever had broken in was making themselves at home and was making a sandwich.

Kira rose her right hand up to her head held up one finger to the ceiling and did a fast circle motion to indicate that Ronny should super speed around to the backdoor to prevent the thief from escaping.

Kira slowly counted to three, which gave Ronny enough time to get to the back door, at least if her speed was comparable to Connor's, and slowly cracked the door open.

What happened next happened so quickly that all Kira knew was that suddenly she was floating in the air and Ronny was flat on her back in the middle of the floor as a man banished a flip phone at them.

"You know," Ronny groaned as she picked herself up from the floor, "We wouldn't have tried ambushing you if you had just called out a greeting when you came in."

"Yeah," Kira agreed, we thought you were an intruder.

"I thought you two where an intruder, why were you sneaking around like that?" the man argued brushing a stand of brown hair out of his eyes as he finally put away the flip phone, causing Kira to fall to the ground.

"You're sure are fast with that wand of yours Nick," Kira grumbled, "Not only did you stop me but you tripped Ronny at super speed."

Nick smirked at his sisters, "Can't take all the credit, Ronny didn't look before she ran," he bent down and picked up a toy dump truck, "Schuyler left his dump truck by the back door."

Ronny glared at Nick, "Why are you even here, you live in Briarwood, you know with your girlfriend and your biological parents and your job at the Rock Emporium."

Nick pointed next to the door that connected to the garage where a bag of presents sat, "I asked Dad to hide presents for me, my apartments kind of on the small side and I share it with Chip and Maddy shares with Vida and those two get to acting like little children at this time of year. Needed some place to hide these that they won't find, and Reefside is only an hour away from here."

"Does that mean that you'll be home for Christmas?" a new voice asked as a little boy grabbed the dump truck that Ronny had tripped over.

"You found my dump truck thanks." he exclaimed running off.

Kim watched as Ronny looked like she was ready to chase after the boy, so she quickly return their attention to her question, "Well?"

"Up until about four in the afternoon," Nick confessed, "Mystic Force is having a big Christmas Dinner and present exchange around five thirty."

"Great that means that we will all be home for Christmas this year!" Kim said happily, "Well unless that curse your Aunt Star always is talking about strikes."