Hi guys, I was very surprised and very excited to find that there were still a few of you who hadn't given up on me.  So, here's another chapter, it's short but I'm sure it will leave you thirsting for more.  Also, please reveiew, and thanks so much for coming back!

Kimberly, walked briskly up the steps of her porch, not once looking back at the car that had just dropped her off. She quickly shoved her key in the door not even stopping to turn the doorknob before she pushed on the door.

The night had been a total disaster and she was pretty sure that Skull had gotten it through his thick head that they simply weren't meant to be together. She wasn't mean about it; she just simply pointed out a few things to him throughout the evening that suggested they were just to different to ever have anything more between them than friendship. He even ended the evening early, convinced that she was still madly in love with Tommy. Which actually wasn't a good thing considering she had spent the whole day trying to convince herself that she wasn't.

As Kimberly made her way to the kitchen to find something real to eat she had a sneaking feeling that she was not alone.

"Who's there?" she asked meekly as she prepared to reach for her morpher.

"You scare much too easily Pink Ranger," responded the husky voice.

"Goldar," said Kimberly as she spotted him in the shadows beneath her stairwell, "what do you want?"

"Lord Zedd has once again requested your presence. And just as a heads up he was not happy about your refusal to his invitation this morning."

Early that morning Goldar had come to retrieve her for Lord Zedd, but she didn't want to leave Tommy, not before she found something on him she could use later, and she had.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go." She walked over to Goldar and grabbed onto his sword and the two disappeared.

Aboard Serpentera II, Kimberly released her grip on Goldar and immediately bowed to the wicked couple in the thrones before her.

"My Lord, my Queen."

"Silence!" snapped the evil ruler. "How dare you defy me and show up here with nothing to show for it!"

Kimberly stayed down knowing full well that it was much safer than actually looking up at him.

"But Master," she said softly, "I do have something to show for it. I mean I will if you just give me a chance."

"Continue," he urged curiously and suspiciously.

"Well, during the time that I spent with the Black Ranger I made a few useful and reliable observations."

"Such as?" questioned Rita in her obnoxious voice.

"On his wrist he wears a bracelet and on that bracelet is the gem from which he calls his Dino morpher and draws his powers."

"Big deal Pinkie," squawked Rita as she immediately dismissed the idea of even further listening to the Pink Ranger, "Zeddy and I already knew that. We were watching too ya' know."

"Rita, I will not have you interrupting," said Zedd angrily, "Do go on my dear." He was intrigued.

Kimberly continued, "I realize that this is not necessarily the latest news but what's interesting about it is how accessible the gem really is."

Lord Zedd nodded in agreement, "But, how do you purpose we get to it Pink Ranger? It's accessible to us yet so easily guarded by him."

"That's true," responded the Pink Ranger, "but, if I could just get close to him I'm sure that I could retrieve it for you."

"Ha," protested Rita, "and what makes you so sure he's going to let you get that close to him? He didn't even hug you goodbye. He just walked away like you were yesterdays trash, which I guess in a way you are."

Kimberly really could have gone without Rita's two cents, as if she didn't feel bad enough already. Their encounter was very disappointing, but that didn't mean they couldn't get a second chance.

"I know his feelings for me have depleted throughout the years," announced Kimberly in her own defense. "But, he did fight to save me and more importantly I detected a great deal of jealousy within him when I agreed to go on a date with Skull back at the Youth Center."

Lord Zedd pondered the thought for a second; he then turned to Goldar, who nodded in agreement. Then he turned to Rita who crossed her arms over her chest and raised her nose in defiance.

"So let me get this straight Pink Ranger, your purposing that you seduce him into turning over the gem to you?" Lord Zedd sounded extremely skeptical.

"More like I seduce him into forgetting that he's even wearing the gem," snickered Kimberly.

"Thus allowing you to take it," said Zedd finishing Kimberly's sentence for her.

"Exactly."