Title: Family Ties

Part Fourteen: Nightmares

Author: Kryptonite

Disclaimer: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, and nope. I don't own anything but Danni.

Spoilers: Kinda hard not to have them since they aren't all my original characters.

Summary: And we're back on Earth. Back in the Brook's household.

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Dustin woke the next morning to see the door to his sister's room ajar, and to hear sounds of her having troubles. Knocking lightly on the door, he inched it open, ready to pull his head back if something he shouldn't see was happening.

Once he realized she was just sleeping he took a step into the room. It took him a moment to realize she was having a nightmare.

" Danni?" He asked quietly, coming to stand next to the bed, reaching a hand for her shoulder.

" No- stop- don't… please." Each word was whispered with so much pain and anguish that Dustin thought his heart would break again.

" Danni? Danni wake up." Hunter took a step in the door at the rising panic in Dustin's voice.

" Dustin?" He questioned, watching as Dustin tried to shake his sister awake.

" Get Cam." It took Hunter all of five minutes to get down the stairs and wake the green ranger up. Both boys ran back up the stairs as fast as they could and rocketed into Danni's room, to see Dustin still shaking her. Danni was mumbling something obviously trapped in a nightmare.

" Dustin." Cam uttered, stepping closer to the bed and causing Dustin to turn frightened eyes on Cam.

" Last time this happened she was out for a week. I- I thought she- she was gonna die. I- I can't-" Hunter didn't let him finish, but simply walked him out of the room and closed the door, letting Cam try to think of something.

" Danni? Danni sweetie we all need you to wake up. We need to know what's going on." Cam looked around the room before finding what he wanted. Dragging the object over he sat down. " And I'm not leaving this chair until you do."

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" Dustin she woke up. It was just a memory." Dustin didn't register the word 'memory', his mind automatically hearing 'nightmare' but Hunter caught it.

" Memory?" He asked quietly as Dustin disappeared into his sister's room.

" We have a new addition to the Ranger family."

" Another one? Don't we have enough as it is?" Hunter half-moaned, not really caring as long as his boyfriend's sister was okay.

" Apparently not. The person who gave her the morpher failed to mention that along with the ranger powers came memories. Rather painful ones I might add." Hunter winced.

" How bad?" Cam just looked at the blonde boy.

" Bad."

" Well she's back to normal." Dustin said, scooting rather quickly out of Danni's room, the door shutting right behind him. " She'll be out in a minute."

Hunter noticed Cam shake his head no as Dustin broke between the two to go down the stairs.

" Anyone else hungry?" Hunter moved to follow him.

" I think I'll wait for Danni." As the other two boys descended down the stairs, Cam went to the door and knocked gently. Danni opened the door in a huff, expecting to find her brother.

" Come in." She answered, calmly down considerably when she realized it was just Cam.

" Want to tell me more about it?" He asked as she walked into her closet and came back out with a deep purple button up shirt over the white tank top she had thrown on.

" Just a nightmare. That's all." Cam continued to watch her pace around the room, trying to find something to do and failing miserably. Finally she made a small noise of frustration and plunked herself heavily on the bed.

" Now do you want to tell me?" She just glared at him.

" I was about ten when our parents died. I was in the car with them." Cam straightened at this. " I should have died but… all I remember is this purple light moments after the car flipped. Everything hurt… so much-" Danni choked on her words as the memories of that night came rushing back.

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" So what happened last time?" Hunter asked as Dustin went about making breakfast.

" It was just after the accident. She… she woke up for about a month, completely fine, no permanent damage outside of the headaches. Then one morning I went to wake her up for school and she was muttering stuff and tossing and turning. Aunt Teresa was living with us then." Dustin smiled at Hunter. " I completely freaked out. Once we realized we couldn't wake her, we got in the car, drove to the hospital and had her admitted. She was out for a week."

" That had to have been tough." Dustin nodded, all pretense of making anything forgotten as he stared down at his hands.

" The doctor's thought it was because of some sort of damage to done to her brain that hadn't been picked up on. They watched her for a week and then one morning we came in like we always did and she was just sitting up in the bed, eating hospital food like nothing was wrong. Danni's first words were 'Why am I back in this room again?'."

" Again?" Hunter asked, stepping over to the other boy.

" I hadn't realized before but… it was the same room she'd been placed in after the accident."

" And just now?"

" I was afraid it was going to happen again." Dustin looked up at Hunter, tears shining in his eyes. Hunter wrapped his arms around Dustin, trying to comfort him. " I was so afraid that with the headaches gone something worse would happen."

" Everything's going to be fine. Danni woke up Dustin, it was just a nightmare." Hunter had been wrestling with whether or not he should tell Dustin the truth but this one moment wiped away all thoughts of doing or saying anything that wouldn't get the younger boy to stop crying.

" But what about next time?"

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Doyles-always- It's entirely possible, despite how good it maybe but thanks for the ego boost ;)

CamFan- Not quite as soon as I would have liked but it's an update, right?

RubyEye- Well I'm glad you like my story… which ranger's your favorite? Dustin? Or Cam? They both feature prominently…

Back on Earth and if I mentioned anything about how their parents died before this well… it's been a while since I've read through the entire story. If that's the case I'll just have to re-write this chapter (so I hope that's not the case). And talk about a little twist as to how Danni got the headaches.

And doesn't everyone just love how I cut off her explanation halfway through? LOL I'm evil. Have a good life everyone, don't forget to review on your way out.