One Year and Nine Months Later…

"Ani, Sky!" Taylor cried through the house as she attempted to change her year old son.

"We're ready mama!" Ani said as she ran into the nursery. "Gross!" she exclaimed as Taylor disposed of the dirty diaper. "Did Collin really do… that?" she asked as she pointed to the trashcan.

Taylor picked him up and placed him on the ground, smiling as he toddled over to his sister.

Collin Daniel Meyers was the spitting image of Eric with his dark features. Ani and Sky adored their little brother and she couldn't have been happier to see them getting along.

Sky and Ani were beginning their first day of school today and Eric was driving them to a new… special school. The proposed immigration of alien beings to Earth had begun not too long ago, and Animaria and Schuyler were going to be among the first Earthlings in an integrated class.

Ani helped Collin down to the living room while Taylor went to get her other son. "Sky?" Taylor said as she entered his room.

Sky sat on his bed looking at the picture of he and Eric. Eric was morphed with his helmet off, and Sky was holding it in his hands. He turned when he heard his mother.

"You ready to go?" she asked. Sky placed the picture down and stood.

"Are the other kids at school going to pick on Ani and me?" he asked. Taylor sighed and put her arms around him as they walked downstairs.

"Because of your powers?" she questioned. Sky nodded his head. "Well, you're going to be going to a school with lots of different kids today. Are you going to pick on them?"

"No," he said.

"Then why would they pick on you?" she said smiling. "You and Ani have nothing to worry about. Plus if you need anything, Auntie 'Lyssa will be there." Sky smiled at the thought of his always-cheerful Auntie. "Are you ready to go?" Sky stood and nodded his head and they headed out the door.

Eric drove his black SUV to the school and helped his kids out. The assortment of different beings surprised him at first, but he knew that things would only be getting better because of the integration. He watched as the twins walked into the building hand in hand and couldn't help but smile.

"Weird isn't it."

He turned and saw Wes at his side. Alec ran over to Ani and Sky and they all went in together.

"They're growing up too fast," Eric said wistfully. Wes laughed.

"Tell me about it… Katie's looking more like Jen everyday," Wes said happily. Katalina Jennifer Collins had been born a little over a year ago and was the apple of her father's eye. "Cole said Melanie's getting big," he said referring to Alyssa and Cole's daughter.

"Collin too," Eric said as they headed back to their cars. "So we have that meeting today with Cruger…" he trailed off.

"The final ranger testing… you think it's going to be alright?" Eric only nodded his head as he got into his car. They drove down the street to the Bio Lab building.

Eric was surprised that he didn't see Taylor's car in her normal spot. He entered the building and checked at the daycare. Collin was there, having been dropped off earlier…

'Where the hell is she?' he asked himself.

Meanwhile, Taylor sat in her car in total disbelief… 'It's too soon,' she said to herself. Then she glanced down at the boxes of vitamins and pamphlets on her passenger seat and put her head down.

This can't be happening. Now that they were finally through with the ranger testing, she was supposed to be training with the candidates for the morphers…

'I'm going to KILL Eric,' she thought as she drove to work…

Eric looked up from his desk when he heard his door open. He was surprised to see Taylor walking at a slower pace then usual.

"Hey," he said softly. She sat on the couch and looked at her hands, not saying a word. "Ok, what's wrong?" he said, sitting back in his chair. "Where were you this morning? I was worried."

Taylor took a deep breath and looked at him. "I had a doctor's appointment," she said softly. Eric raised his eyebrows and walked over to her.

"Why'd you go to the doctor? Are you sick? What's wrong?"

"Enough of the twenty questions," she said as he sat. "The doctor said that I'm pregnant again… about a month." Her voice sounded sad and he put an arm around her, pulling her close. "I… don't know if I can handle this…"

"What?" he said shocked. "Why not? I thought we wanted more kids?"

"Not right now!" she said as she stood. "Collin's just barely a year old! I was hoping to get back to work… maybe have a little break from being pregnant!"

Her pregnancy with Collin had not been as easy as it was with the twins. She was constantly sick, and her leg bothered her more than she would have admitted.

"I just… I can't handle this!" she said as she wrapped her arms around herself.

"You can't seriously be thinking of…" he said carefully.

Taylor snapped her head back to him. "Of course not! I'm not going to give it up! How could you even think that!"

Eric put his head in his hands. He wanted another baby…

"It's going to be hard, but I want this," he said as he stood and took her in his arms. Taylor pushed him away from her.

"Of course you want it. You're not the one carrying it, dealing with all the shit that happens. Not to mention you still get to work and… and…" she said before she started crying.

That was it for Eric. He took her in his arms and held her to him, no matter how hard she fought him. After a few moments Taylor melted into his embrace and felt him kiss her forehead.

"Taylor… it wasn't planned, I know. But can you honestly say that you really don't want this?" he questioned as he ran his hand through her hair. "Look at Sky, and Ani, and Collin. You really don't want another one?"

She sighed and hated to admit that he had a point. "I do… I do want another one, but… so soon? What am I going to do about work? Who's going to train the new rangers?"

Eric smiled and pulled back so he could kiss her lips. "You're always thinking about work aren't you?" he brushed his thumb along her cheek and brushed away a few remaining tears. "You can do what you did before the twins were born… set up everything and select the best person you think would get the job done."

She smiled and kissed him softly. "Thanks for volunteering," she said happily.

"Whoa, hold on. You want me to go through all that rigorous exercise just to appease you?"

"Absolutely," she said as she kissed him again. "You've put on a few." She touched his sculpted abs and smiled devilishly.

"You're a bitch," he said softly. Taylor just grinned.

"A bitch that's having another one of your kids."

Eric smirked and kissed her one last time. "It better be mine," he said smiling. Taylor broke away from him.

"You're an asshole," she said as she grabbed a file out of his hand. She smiled and kissed his cheek. "I'll see you this afternoon."

She walked back to her office and sat at her desk; her children's pictures were spread out all over. Four was an even number… maybe things wouldn't be as bad as she thought…