Hi everyone :)

Wow, I feel so loved :) All your reviews were so great and I was really surprised that you all actually liked the last chapter. All your encouragement and nice comments have sort of un-blocked my writers block a little so that's why this chapter didn't take as long as I thought. I've also come up with a new idea for my next story.
Time to talk to all you lovely people. It's review time. Before we I start though, just wanna take this oppotunity to give all the poeple mentioned here a hug cuddle. You're all so nice and really encourage me. Thank you all :) (BIG CUDDLE!!!!!!!!) :

TVrocks : Lovely long review. Glad you liked the chapter and really surprised you thought it was better than chappie 3. As for the chocolate shampoo, it really does exist you know. It was a kids shampoo that my mum used on me and my brother 'till we were about seven. Don't know if they still make it but if they do, it's still probably for kids which sucks so badly.

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In case anyone gets confused, in this Tori's sister's name is Amanda. I try to keep the made up details in my stories continuous so if you ever see the name Amanda in one of my stories, it'll be talking about Tori's sister.

Now, for your entertainment, I bring you the sweetness...

23:57
Seventeen hours, four minutes remain.

After finishing off the cooking together, Tori and Dustin settled down together in front of the TV to watch Tori's choice of movies. Now, they were just getting to the end of Armageddon and, as always, Tori was crying. Dustin was leaned against the arm of the sofa looking really bored while Tori was leaning against his chest, her hand resting on his stomach and a tissue scrunched up in one hand.

"Tor, why are you crying?" Dustin groaned in frustration. "You've seen this movie like a million times before. You know it's gonna be a happy ending."

"Her dad dies! How is that a happy ending?!" Tori cried after sniffing a little.

"She gets married doesn't she? And that guy gets back with his wife and son and that little weedy dude gets his supermodel girlfriend." Dustin pointed out.

"Oh, so that makes up for the six or so other guys that get themselves killed?" Tori countered as she turned back to the TV. Dustin gave a tired sigh but didn't answer her back. He knew he wasn't going to be able to win this argument. Suddenly, the phone next to the sofa began to ring. Dustin leaned over the side of the sofa and picked up the reciever since he was in the best position to answer it.

"Tori's place. Dustin speaking." He said. "Oh hey Mr. Hanson...Huh?...Yeah, it's Waldo." Tori gave a laugh. "I'm good...Just watching a couple of movies...Armageddon...Of course she is, she always does...Sure, she's right here. I'll pass you over. Good talking to you." He held the reciever down to Tori. She took it from him and sat up.

"Daddy? Hi daddy!" Tori squealed into the phone, her crying no longer evident in her voice. Dustin smirked at how much Tori sucked up to her dad. She had to be the only seventeen year old in the world who still called her dad daddy. "I'm fine. How are you?...Good. And Amanda?...Good...What?...Yeah, I guess it is kinda late...No, it's just me and Dustin...No, it's nothing like that...Erm, well, it's kinda complicated...Daddy! Don't say stuff like that!" Dustin watched as Tori's cheeks gained a red tinge. "Daddy, shut up! I am not embarrassed! It's just that...Wait, what was that?" Tori held the phone away from her. "What's that daddy?...I can't hear...You're breaking up...You're..." Tori quickly slammed the phone down and just stared at it for a moment. "Bye daddy." She said to the phone. She glanced at Dustin who just grinned at her. "What?"

"That was smooth." Dustin laughed. Tori glared at him and lightly punched his arm. "He guessed something was up huh?"

"He always does. I swear he must be psychic or something." Tori muttered as she leaned off of the sofa and grabbed a tissue from the box on the table which had been moved back to the middle of the room.

"Why didn't you just tell him?" Dustin questioned, grabbing the remote and turning off the TV as the movie finished. "You know he'd be cool with it especially since it's me."

"I know but you know my dad. He'll want to know every little detail and then he'll just tease us and make a bunch of really lame jokes." Tori explained just before blowing her stuffed up nose.

"Hey, your dad's jokes aren't lame. He's one of the funniest guys I know." Dustin disagreed as he sat up next to Tori and leaned his elbows on his knees.

"You only think that because you've got just as lame a sense of humour as he has. You'll laugh at anything. You're the only person I know who laughed at The Blair Witch Project."

"That was such a funny movie though!" Dustin justified. "The camera's like, all over the place and when, like, they're running and screaming and stuff. Oh, and that bit right at the end when that girl's talking to the camera you can see right up her nose." Dustin recalled before falling into a fit of helpless laughter.

"You are so immature." Tori sighed as she scrunched up the tissue in her hand and threw it and the other one into the small bin she had brought in when they were eating sweets and crisps earlier. "C'mon, we'd better get to bed. Tomorrow's the day and we need to be ready." Dustin nodded and followed her as she left the sitting room and headed down the small hallway and into her bedroom. She flicked the light switch on and headed to her where a radio sat over to the side. She turned it on and found a station that had a decent reception.

Tori looked around and noticed through the open door that the bathroom light was on. She left her room and walked into the small bathroom to find Dustin scrubbing away at his teeth with his toothbrush. Tori came to his side and nudged him slightly with her hip, silently asking him to move over. He did so and Tori grabbed her brush and, after applying a little toothpaste, began to clean her teeth as well. After a while, Tori and Dustin both lowered their heads at the same time and spat the contents of their mouths into the sink. They both grabbed seperate bottles of mouthwash and took a swig from them at the same time. They swirled it around their mouths simultaneously and gargled at the same time before spitting together again. They wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands at the same time and gave a satisfied sigh as well. They looked at each other and laughed a little before turning from the mirror and heading back to Tori's room.

Tori crawled into her bed first, shuffling over to the wall to make room for Dustin who quickly followed her in. They shuffled around a bit, trying to get comfortable before Dustin opened his arms, giving Tori silent permission to come and have a cuddle with him. She moved closer and his arms immediately came around her, hugging her closely.

"Dusty?" Tori murmured suddenly.

"Hmm?" He hummed tiredly, his eyes already closed.

"Can you turn the light off?" Tori giggled, pointing out the fact that neither of them had remembered to turn off the ceiling light. Dustin let out a low moan as he slid from the bed and trudged over to the other side of the room where the lightswitch was. He lazily flicked it off and then shuffled back to the bed, thankful that Tori was such a neat person, it meant there was nothing on the floor that he could trip over. Reaching the bed, he let himself fall onto it and Tori quickly threw the covers over him and snuggled back up to him. "Thanks Dusty." She smiled kissing his cheek. Dustin mumbled something which sounded a bit like "you're welcome" and wrapped his arms around her again. The next thing Tori knew, his breathing was coming out in a steady rhythm showing that he was asleep. Tori sighed and closed her eyes. Why did he need the radio on? He was barely awake long enough to even realise it was on.
03:00
Thirteen hours, one minute remain.

Tori slowly came back to consciousness to realize that the warmth of Dustin's body was no longer next to her. She rolled over slightly and found that the bed wasn't warm either so he must have left a while ago. Opening her eyes slightly she saw that it wasn't even light outside yet. The radio had also been turned off. Knowing Dustin was in the kitchen, Tori lazily flung her legs over the side of the bed and slowly got to her feet. Still half asleep, she shuffled across her room and out of her bedroom door towards the light coming from the kitchen. She stopped by the open kitchen door and looked at Dustin. He was sitting on a chair with the top half of his body flopped out across the kitchen table. The only proof that he wasn't asleep was the movement of his index finger pushing down on the end of a fork every so often making it lift up and down. She moved over to the chair to his left and sat down.

"What's up?" Tori inquired through a yawn.

"Had a dream." Dustin murmured not moving from his position or stopping his finger from bouncing the fork up and down.

"I'm guessing it wasn't a good one." Tori mused rubbing her eyes. She rested her elbows on the table and leaned forward on them. "You wanna talk about it?" Dustin shook his head. "You sure? Might make you feel better about it." Tori pointed out. Dustin didn't reply or move in anyway to show that he'd changed his mind. Tori leaned back against her chair and yawned again. "How long have you been up?"

"About an hour." His small reply came. Tori yawned again and nodded her head to show she had heard. Her tiredness didn't go un-noticed by Dustin and he frowned slightly. "You don't have to stay up with me you know."

"I know." Tori mumbled.

They sat there in silence, Tori just staring at the table trying to stop her eyes from dropping shut and Dustin continuing to play with the fork. After a while, Dustin realised she wasn't going to go back to bed until he did and she wasn't going to let him go back to bed until he told her about his dream. It was embarrassing though. He was a guy. Guys weren't meant to get this upset or freaked out about nightmares and it wasn't like the dream was that eventful. Only one thing had happened and just saying it in words didn't convey how frightening it had been and how much it had scared him. He knew why it had scared him so much, he was just surprised that it had scared him so much. He had laid there for ages, trying to relax again, trying to assure himself that everything was fine and nothing was going to happen, but it hadn't worked and in the end, he had felt it best to get up in case he began tossing and turning and disturbed Tori. Looked like he'd done that anyway though. He came to the conclusion that he was going to have to tell her, for her sake, she needed to go back to bed. Come to mention it, so did he.

"I couldn't get to you." He murmured quietly. Tori seemed to wake up from a sleep she was never in and blinked a couple of times.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" Tori asked, sitting up straight.

"There were kelzacks and aliens everywhere. I couldn't get to you." He repeated, also sitting up, though he remained slouched against the back of his chair. Tori just looked at him not knowing whether he was going to continue or not. After a while he did. "I was calling out to you, trying to tell you to hang on...I don't know if you could hear me or not. Then the ground seemed to swallow you. You looked like you were screaming but I couldn't hear anything coming from you...Then it was all gone. You, the aliens, the klezacks, everything. I was on my own in darkness and silence, just kneeling there in a black void..." He trailed off, hating the feeling the memory brought to him. He lowered his head to stare at the edge of the table. This was so lame! He was acting like a total baby. He was about to tell Tori it was no big deal and just to forget about it when he felt her arms come around his chest. He gave a tired sigh and leaned his head back against her chest, no longer bothered to try and hide his feelings. There was no point.

Tori leaned down a little and kissed the top of his head before resting her chin in his curls. As always, he smelt like chocolate. She wasn't sure if this was making him feel better, she was too tired to be bothered to check, but at least she was doing something to try and help. It made her feel better if anything. After a while of silence and staying in the same position, Tori gently rubbed Dustin's chest and raised her head a little.

"C'mon, back to bed." She ordered softly, taking his hand and forcing him to get off of the chair. She lead him out of the kitchen, flicking off the light as they left, and into her bedroom. They slipped back into bed and Tori immediately laid one arm over his waist and the other came up to his face. She gently stroked his cheek and snuggled closer to him. She let out a tired sigh, her hand stopped moving and was then silent, leading Dustin to believe she was asleep.

Dustin let out his own sigh and just stared at Tori's still figure. What would he do if she was suddenly gone? She had been with him for so long and now they weren't just friends...What if it hadn't just been a dream? What if it was a premonition like Shane had with Skyla? He let out another sigh and tried to push such thoughts out of his mind. He needed sleep. They had to fight tomorrow and he had to be alert, if not for himself than for Tori. It was just going to be the two of them and if one of them made a mistake, the other would as well. He had to be ready in case Tori needed protecting. He knew that their new relationship was going to totally change the way he fought, he'd put her safety before his own for one thing, but that was to be expected...

Dustin groaned in frustration. He had to stop thinking! Just stop thinking. No more thinking starting from...Now........Hey, he did it! Oh wait, that was thinking. He sighed again. It was going to be a long night.

13:31
Two hours, thirty minutes remain.

"I can't believe how late it is!" Tori gasped as she ran around the kitchen, desperately trying to make some kind of breakfast. Both she and Dustin had over slept, badly over slept. They had woken up at 13:23 and that was only because Cam had called to see if they were ready for the battle. Now, they were both charging around the apartment trying to get everything ready. They had planned on doing a lot of practising before they actually went out but that wasn't likely to happen now.

"Dude, where's my sock?!" Dustin cried from inside the sitting room where he was furiously searching everything; under the sofa, inside and under plactic bags, behind the TV.

"Where did you see it last?" Tori called to him while pulling out two cooked waffles from the toaster and dropping them onto two plates.

"If I knew that then I'd know where to look!" Dustin's annoyed reply came.

"Come eat breakfast." Tori instructed loudly. "I'll help you find your sock once my stomach's full." As she laid the plates on the table, a flustered Dusitn came in. She sat down and poured some maple syrup over her waffle before cutting a bit off and eating it. She watched Dustin in amusement as he flopped down and hurriedly began to wolf down his breakfast. "You're gonna choke it you keep eating like that." Tori pointed out with a hint of amusement.

"No I won't." Dustin assured before stuffing some more into his mouth. He quickly chewed it up before swallowing it. "I've had enough practice of eating in a hurry. Just think about all those times I was late for school."

"You actually bothered with breakfast? Wouldn't it have been quicker just to skip it?" Tori queried after swallowing another mouthful.

"Yes, but when you skip breakfast, you faint. You of all people should know that." He grinned gulping down the last mouthful. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find my sock." And with that, he left the kitchen and resumed his hunt for the elusive sock.

15:17
Zero hours, fifty-four minutes remain.

"This is so stupid!" Dustin cried in exasperation as he stood helplessly in the middle of Tori's sitting room, now fully clothed except for a missing left sock. Tori stood at the doorway, also fully clothed with an amused smiled on her face and her hands behind her back. "It's not here! It's totally vanished! Like it was sucked into another dimension!" He seemed to consider that. "Hey, do you think it has?"

"Dustin, this dimension doesn't even want you're stinky old sock, why would another dimension steal it?" Tori grinned. Dustin just frowned at her and looked around himself. She shook her head slightly and sighed. "I can't watch you be so confused anymore. Here." She said as she pulled her arms to her front to reveal that she had his sock.

"Dude! Where was it?" Dustin gasped, going over to her and taking it.

"It was in your bag with the rest of your clothes." Tori laughed while Dustin slipped the sock on. "I don't know why you just didn't look there in the first place."

"I didn't think it would be in there." Dustin justified. "No reason why it should be."

"Well there obviously was a reason since that's where it was." Tori pointed out. She glanced at her watch. "Okay, we have less than an hour 'till the others get here. What do you think we should do?"

"Let's play some video games." Dustin suggested enthustiastically. Tori wrinkled her nose in distaste.

"Let's not." She said. Dustin pouted a little and came round to hug her from behind.

"Please?" He pleaded cutely, his head coming to rest on her shoulder. "Please? Please? Please, please, please, please..." He began to chant, his tone changing with each word.

"Oh, all right." Tori groaned, greatly annoyed by Dustin's constant noise. Dustin gave a cry of triumph and let her go before dashing over to the TV and setting up a game. Tori sighed and shook her head. If being with Dustin meant a never ending life of computer games, insanely sweet food and getting annoyed, she was going to have to do some serious attitude adjusting.

15:45
Zero hours, sixteen minutes remain.

Cam and Shane stood in front of Tori's apartment door. They were a little early but the alien was back. Blake and Hunter were there already keeping it busy but they needed badly Tori and Dustin. Cam knocked on the Tori's apartment door and waited. There was no answer. He tried again but there was still no reply.

"That's weird." Shane murmured. Cam frowned slightly and held his amulet up to his mouth.

"Tori? Dustin?" He said into it. After a few seconds of silence, Tori's reply came.

"Hey Cam." She greeted.

"Tori, where are you? Why haven't you answered your door?" Cam inquired.

"Oh, did you knock? I'm sorry, the TV's on kinda loud and Dustin keeps yell...Dustin, what are you doing?! I told you to pause it!" Tori suddenly said, her voice fading out a bit showing she was no longer talking directly into her morphor.

"And I did. You didn't say how long to keep it paused for though." He heard Dustin laugh in the background.

"You cheeky..." Tori began to say.

"Tori!" Cam cried in exasperation.

"Oh, sorry Cam. So what's up? I didn't think you'd be here for another fifteen minutes or so." Tori replied.

"Change of plan. The cat's back. Blake and Hunter are keeping it busy but we need you guys." Cam explained.

"Kay." Tori said. "C'mon Dustin, we've gotta go." Her voice once again faded and then there was silence. After a few minutes, the door swung open and Tori and Dustin came out. "Let's go." She nodded quickly. The guys all nodded in agreement and they hurried down the stairs of the apartment building. Once outside, they found a quiet place where there was no one about.

"You guys ready?" Shane asked like he always did.

"Ready." The other three all chorused together.

"Ninja Storm..."

"Samurai Storm..."

"Ranger Form! Ha!" They all cried together and were surrounded by lights of their colour.

"Power of Earth!"

"Air!"

"Water!"

"Power of the Samurai!"

With that, they streaked off.

There ya go. Chapter 5. Sorry that it's kinda short but I've still got a bit of writer's block and I struggled with it a little. Looks like next chapter will be the last unless inspiration suddenly strikes and I get an idea for an epilouge. Who knows, I might see or hear something that fills me with ideas.
Oh well, that's it from me.

Catch you guys later :)
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