Summary: Aurora is in college, spending only her weekends and vacations in Crystal Springs. After since Andros' reunion with his children, Blaecleah kept quiet, but peace never lasts for long.

Juzblue: Glad you liked it. Enjoy this chapter.

Arwennicole: That's okay, I think everyone has problems with tests and finals at the moment. I know I have.

Melisa: No prob, everybody has a right to be lazy every once in a while. You know, I'm actually scared of the dentist too. You know, my phone dropped out of my pocket into the toilet too, it drowned.

LucyE: Sorry I made you wait.

Jenny: Teach, learn, what's the difference, the thing drowned and I had to get a new one. Strange way to face your fear? Yeah, you're right, but it worked! I'll let you know, the rangers aren't finished with Aurora yet and neither am I. AAAAAAHHHHH, a conspiracy! Wait, I'm part of a conspiracy now too. I'll keep my mouth shut. Yeah, school's almost over; FINALLY!

The-power-of-love: Well, you're 17 now! Just like me. Only I'll be 18 soon. Yay for me!

TrueRomantic: Yes, the other rangers will make a brief appearance in this story again. You don't have to doubt that. Yes, they will have kids too. I just can't promise all those pairings will come past, but some will.

Phantom Rogue: Don't go to people who are paid to hear what you're scared off, tell me will help the other rangers with their fears. I need ideas people. Got some, but I NEED MORE! Andros and Ashley taking Aurora to the dentist, come on people, close your eyes and see it, it's cute. For all I know I've been going to the dentist forever. You might be crazy, but I'm a loony!

Ghostwriter: Don't ask me, maybe I CAN trick my readers! Cool.

The real vampire: Like I told Arwennicole; no sweat, I've got the same problem. Hope your hand is better, else you might want to put it on ice.

It Was Just The Beginning

Chapter 5

When Aurora and Megan entered the rangers' common room at the NASADA-base again, Aurora immediately noticed something was wrong.

"Megan." Eshla called, holding out her hand to her sister.

Megan shot Aurora a scared look, but walked over to her sister, to be wrapped into an embrace. It didn't stop Megan from noticing the glares Aurora was receiving, though. If Aurora noticed, she didn't let it know and just kept quiet, waiting for the bomb to burst.

"Who do you think you are?" Anlon snarled.

"Yeah." Reese agreed. "How dare you treat us like that? Treat Megan like that!"

"We've been talking…" Kagan started.

"And decided we don't want you as our leader." Abigail finished.

"We're not sure we even want you on our team." Murtagh added with a glare.

"Yeah, we were doing perfectly fine without you." Dymphna agreed.

"There's the door." Eshla pointed. "Make sure we don't see you here again."

"But Eshla…" Megan started.

"Don't worry Megan, we know what we're doing."

"But… But..."

"It's your call. It's not as if we asked for you guys to come back in our life." Aurora shrugged. "Come on, Ray, Mack, we're out of here."

"I still have to do some homework anyway," Ray replied, getting up, a seemingly unfazed look on his face.

"Give everyone at home a kiss for me." Aurora told him, before Ray teleported away.

Then she held her hand out to Mack, teleporting them to his car the moment his hand touched hers.

"Are you sure this is wise?" He asked, unlocking his car so they could get in.

"They don't know me. If they judge this quickly, then yeah, it's wise. Let them struggle for a while; they'll see they're wrong sooner or later. Now how 'bout we go get something to eat at the Surf Spot? I'm starving."

Knowing Aurora didn't want to talk about what just happened anymore he smiled.

"Why not, tomorrow we'll be eating dinner at home again, so we might as well make this one worthwhile. When's your first class tomorrow?"

Aurora giggled and smacked him softly on the back of his head.

"Not until the afternoon, silly. As a good boyfriend you should know by now."

"Good, mine too. Since we've missed the afternoon show, how about we catch a movie after dinner?"

"Sounds good."

Mack gave her a quick kiss before starting the car and pulling off the students' parking lot. It didn't take them long to get to the Surf Spot. They got out of the car and started walking to the entrance. The building seemed to be bigger than on the pictures Ashley had shown Aurora and as much as she hated to admit it, this was the first time since coming to Angel Grove that Aurora had gone to the Surf Spot.

She had already been going to college for two months and yet, she hadn't found the time before to go to the Surf Spot. Not too surprisingly though. The weather had been great the past two months, so most of their free time, she and Mack had spent on the beach at the lake.

"Hey Aurora!" A call caught their attention.

A few of Aurora's classmates were seated at one of the picnic tables outside and one of the boys was motioning for them. Aurora gave a slight tug on Mack's arm and walked them both over.

"Hey, Collin. What's up?" She asked casually.

"Nothing, just wondered if you and your friend wanted to join us," Collin replied, glancing briefly at Mack.

"Boyfriend." Mack grumbled softly.

"I don't know…" Aurora said thoughtfully, having heard Mack's grumbling.

"Oh, come on." Collin coaxed.

"Maybe some other time." Mack said quickly, noticing Aurora was really thinking about it, but didn't want to ditch him.

"Okay, but don't say we didn't ask you." Collin shrugged.

"Why'd you do that?" Aurora asked softly as they walked back to the entrance.

"I wanted to have dinner, just you and me. Is it so bad I want to spent some time alone with my girlfriend?"

Aurora shook her head slightly, a small smile growing on her face. Mack sighed softly in relief, knowing he got away with it this time.

"Aurora?" A voice asked suddenly.

"Aurora Hammond?" The person repeated, slight awe creeping into it.

Aurora and Mack turned around to see a man in his late thirties watching them. He had brown hair and greyish-blue eyes. A boy was standing next to him, looking at the man strangely. Aurora guessed he was no older than 16.

"Excuse me?" Aurora asked politely, a little annoyed at the interruption.

"Are you Aurora Hammond?" The man asked again, the boy looking at them curiously.

"Well, yeah. Do I know you?"

"No, no… you don't. But you should've. My name is Jeff Hammond, I believe you're my niece."

All colour drained from Aurora's face.

A/N: HAHA! Did it again. I love cliffies! Hope you liked it. Review, or I won't update. :P