Chapter Ten: Thoughts Before Bed

Afterwards Chris was shown her room where they had taken her luggage. Chris sat down and began to unpack her things. She stopped for a moment as she unpacked a small velvet box. She opened it to reveal a gold coin.

"Once again?" She said speaking to the coin. The Coin flashed purple and returned to its inanimate state. She placed it a drawer of her nightstand and continued to unpack. Checking the clock she noticed that it was too late to see Carter at the hospital so she changed and laid down to try and get some rest.

Dana laid looking up at her ceiling thinking about the events that had occurred that day. She shuddered at the thought of Carter lying in that bed because of her, if she hadn't let the battlings get a hold of her he'd be okay. She would start training tomorrow to be stronger so it wouldn't happen again. She rolled over and tried to sleep.

Ryan walked down to the common room and sat down in the couch he'd really didn't know what to think everything had happened fast today, Carter's injury, Chris's recruitment, the attack, and the afterwards stuff. It was a big and heavy to him, and he still wasn't use too much of anything. He didn't know what to make of Chris at this point in time. She had gotten the hang of everything rater quickly and had no problem adjusting, at least not yet. Then she had called Carter her friend and seemed truly upset about it.

Joel rolled over and looked at Chad who exchanged a looked with him. Both were trying to figure out how to react to Chris. The day had whizzed by. Joel had to admit that she was good and defiantly could fight. She was quite like Chad, crazy like Kelsey, brave like Carter, determined like Dana, Solemn like Ryan, and as confident as he was. She seemed like the best of each of them. Honestly Joel didn't know how to react to her let alone the fact she was a woman Red Ranger, that had to be a first.

Kelsey walked into the common room to find Ryan sitting in the dark. He acknowledged her presence but didn't say anything really. Kelsey was like the others trying to process what had happened that day. She was very worried about Carter and Chris, she didn't want to excluded one or the other.

Chad laid in bed thinking about how quickly Chris got into the Rhythm of the team it was a good thing, Chad thought. Yet he felt like he was kind of betraying Carter if he became too good of a friend with Chris, but he didn't want to push her out because they needed to be a good close team. The next couple of months would be a long hard trail that much he knew.

Carter looked out the window of his room at the hospital. He had watched the News but didn't get to see the new Red Rangers face. He wasn't allowed to move much by doctor's orders and the amount of pain he was in. He defiantly wasn't having fun. He thought about how well the Red ranger had slipped in with the others maybe they didn't need him after all. Then an echo of a voice ran through his mind.

'You never know what the other side is really like if you assume.' His head sank as medicine pumped through his system and he drifted to sleep. Tomorrow would bring new things and new information he just had to wait.

Captain Mitchell laid in his bed giving a small prayer to his wife that he had done the right thing and Maria wouldn't kill him when she found out. He wonder what Tyler would said the next time they talked. He would just have to wait and see. Maria was right Chris did know what she was doing and made an excellent Ranger, he just hoped ever thing went well. He closed eyes and envisioned his wife beside him. As he often did to get to sleep.

Wooo and one more chapter to go.