"W-what…what are you doing here?" Kimberley asked. She tried to keep her voice from shaking, tried to keep her cool, tried to act like seeing him wasn't like seeing a ghost. It wasn't as though they hadn't spoken in years – they did talk on holidays and birthdays. She just had never expected to go to Reefside and see Jason Scott!

Jason didn't answer. He was frozen, unknowing of what to say to her. He was afraid of what to say to her, afraid of her realizing what he hadn't said to her. He wished so badly to spill his heart out to his oldest friend – just about everything. From his house burning down, to the new power rangers, to living with Tommy, to just everything. Yet he couldn't. The kids had all worked so hard on getting her to come here – they had plans and he couldn't ruin that for them. "I..I'm here visiting my friend's nephew. She's stuck at work, I wanted someone to be here with him until she could get away."

Kimberley nodded, the smallest pinch of curiosity in her chocolatey brown eyes. She was still slowly surveying her old friend. He looked thinner than the last she had seen him and his eyes held more saddness than they once had. Yet other than that, he looked like the same old Jason – crisp natural tan, dark eyes, pitch black hair. "What um.." She slowly pulled herself back and away from memories of them in their youth. "What happened to him?"

"He.." Jason had always had trouble lieing – especially to his friends. "..was in an accident, earlier today." Well, it wasn't a complete lie – there had been an accident. He was just withholding the details of the accident.

"Oh dear." Genuine concern and worry entered Kim's eyes. She gave her old friend a sympathetic look. "Is he alright?"

Jason wanted to shake her – because he knew that she knew exactly how Alex was. He decided then and there that he was too worried to bother searching around the hospital for Alex. He needed to know right then and there if the boy was going to be alright. "You tell me, Kimberly." Upon seeing her completely confused look he elaborated. "Alex! How is he? Is he alright?"

Kim was silent. Just by looking into those deep eyes of hers, he could see everything clicking itself together in her mind. "Oh…..So….Wait….You know about the Power-"

"Not now." Jason interupted. "First take me to Alex, we'll talk about the rest later – I promise."

Kim nodded. "Come on." She reached to grab his wrist, yet thought better of it. Already seeing him was like seeing a ghost to her and she was almost childishly afraid that if she touched him he'd disappear from her life again. So insteady, she waved her hand in a motion that told him to follow her into the elevator and away they went.

On an abandoned peir on the edge of Reefside was a group of very strange and special people. There were five teenagers and one adult and by the looks on their faces, someone had died. Of coarse perhaps someone had – this group has no way of knowing if their friend, Alex, was alright and they were all worried sick.

"What now, Dr. O?" Ethan looked over at his mentor, his leader and his friend – searching desperatly for answers. The rangers had gotten hurt before, though this was different. One of their friends had been badly hurt – because they, the protectors, couldn't do their job and protect him.

The adult sighed, looking around his group of clearly shaken up students. What could he do? All he wanted to do was take away all of their pain. This group was special to him – this group was different than any other team he had ever led. In past groups he had been at the same point in his life as his team members and suddenly, he wasn't. Instead, he was now watching them go through things he had once gone through – yet wasn't any longer.

He was now in a bit of a 'big brother' position and this was new for him. It did have it's downs, yet he wouldn't trade it for the world. He loved the group of teens as if he truly was their older brother. He'd put his life before their's anyday. No matter what was going on, he would never miss one of Kira's preformances or one of Connor's soccer games. He would always make time to read one of Kelly's poems or look at Trent's latest masterpiece. He would even take the time out to just sit and listen to Ethan talk about video games or Cassidy or how his siblings annoyed him. Ethan sure likes to talk, Tommy mentally observed. Even when deep in thought he could hear the teen babbling on about things they could do.

"Alright," Tommy interupted and instantly it was silent – all eyes were on him. He was once again the leader. "This is what we're going to do. Trent, you are going to Hayley's – make sure everything is ok there. Once you're done, meet us at the hospital. You know how to reach me if you need to. Everyone else comes with me to the hospital to find Alex – Jason is there already."

As Tommy looked around, he suddenly realized just how young the group was. They weren't the experienced adult that he was. They were barely seventeen – Kelly wasn't even seventeen yet! She was still sixteen and barely that. Standing there, with fear in their eyes – they all looked so small. Yet admist the fear was determination. They were stronger than they seemed – he supposed being attacked on an almost daily basis does that to a person.

"Connor? Something wrong?" Tommy asked. The red ranger was usually the fearless leader, yet he seemed to be holding back. He was always true to his team. He would do anything to make 'his' team better. It was a great quality, yet it scared Dr Oliver. He was afraid of how far Connor would go to beat the bad guy. Connor's the kind of kid that didn't handle making mistakes well. Tommy and Connor had spent hours practicing karate after soccer practice and he knew that Connor practiced even more when he got home. He was afraid the red ranger was going to over do it.

Connor cleared his throat, running his fingers through his hair. "Can I go home?" He was straight to the point. "I feel tired." He was a liar as well, Tommy knew that instantly.

"Go ahead." Tommy nodded to grant permission. "Call me later to let me know you're alright." The teen nodded before rushing off to his car, leaving his team behind.

"Do you think he's alright?" Ethan asked, new worry added now for his best friend. Friendship:the core of this team, the glue that held them together. Ethan was the glue. He was a friend to all, always there to whoever needed him. He could always put a smile on his friends faces, he could always just sit silently and listen to them talk to him. This made sure they all knew just how important and needed they were. Too bad he never paid attention to his own advice. He was continuously putting himself down, often forgetting just how important he was to team.

"None of us are." Kira spoke up quietly, though everyone heard her. "I'll go with him." The yellow ranger was normally a quiet person – an almost unknown in school. Yet, she was loud and proud when she needed to be. She spoke up for her friends and the team wouldn't be much without her. She had the common sense and logical thinking. And she would do anything to save her friends, anything at all.

"Go on, Kira. Meet us at the hospital if you can." Tommy instructed. She nodded before running after 'her man'.

"What's up with Connor?" Trent asked aloud, mostly to himself. He was the most secretive of all the rangers. He was always scared to expose himself to the outside world, as if it would eat him up and spit him back out – which it might have before, but that's no reason to close one's self off. Trent was scared to take a risk and if he didn't get over that, he'd be trapped by his fear forever.

"He was scared…" Kelly answered back. She was always answering back. She said what she wanted to and didn't care what people thought of that. It was great that she was so honest, yet Tommy hoped that her mouth wouldn't get her into trouble.

Tommy gave a forced smile to his students. "Connor will be fine." He reassured them. "Come on, let's go check up on Alex…"

Cassidy sighed and collapsed back onto her bed.'Since when did my life become a WB teen drama…' she thought to herself. She forced herself into a sitting position and looked to her right. A wooden desk was pushed up against her purple painted bedroom wall. On the desk was books, a pile of papers and a picture of Ethan. He made her feel so beautiful, she forgot all her troubles when she was around him, it was like nothing in the world mattered but being with him. Turning her head to the left, on the exact opposite side of the room, was her dresser and on it sat a picture of Devin. She laughed at the memory of the photograph, it had been the day that he had lost his bathing suit in the ocean and wouldn't get out until she got him a new one. Devin was her best friend, she told him everything and he always knew just what to do to make her feel happy. Cassidy looked from one picture to the other. She had a decision to make about the two most important people in her life and she certainly wasn't looking forward to it.

Connor stared at Kira as she slipped into the passenger seat of his red convertible. "What are you doing?" He asked, sounding a bit rude, but he knew she wouldn't mind.

"I'm coming with you." Kira said as if it were obvious.

"To my house?" He inquired.

"If that's where you're going." She shrugged and leaned the chair back a bit, making herself comfortable.

The red ranger turned the keys to the ignition. "Don't you want to go check on Alex."

"Alex already has so many people who are there for him – you need someone too."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why you? Why you of all people? Why are you here with me?"

"I'm your friend, Connor. I'll always be here for you."

He nodded slowly, not quite sure how to respond. "Thank you.."

"And Con.."

"Yeah?"

"I'm also here…because I care about you."

A slight smile crept onto his face and he pulled out of his parking spot, knowing exactly where they were going.

"Jason?" Kimberley began quietly, causing her friend to tear his eyes away from the sleeping Alex.

"Yes?" He answered, knowing what was coming before she even asked it.

"You knew…right? That I was going to be here…In Reefside.." It wasn't exactly a question. She knew he knew, he knew that she knew that he knew. She just needed to have her friend be truthful with her.

Jason nodded shamefully. "Yes."

"Why didn't you contact me? There is a completely new team of rangers and you didn't tell me! I had heard rumors of new rangers – but I never even dared to think that you were involved. I assumed that you would tell me and obviously I was mistaken!" She was close to shouting, she seemed quite mad yet Jason knew that in truth, Kimberley was simply hurting that her friend had concealed such important information from her.

"I didn't mean to lie Kim.." He began softly.

"Oh really? Then tell me Jason – why did you let Alex write a letter to me? Why not just call me? You know that if you ever needed me, you just need to call and I'd be there as soon as possible…"

"I didn't know they wrote you, Kim. I only found out after they had sent it." Jason explained to her calmly.

"And when was that?" She demanded, folding her arms angrily against her chest.

Jason averted his eyes. "Christmas." He said honestly.

Kim's eyes narrowed. "Before or after you called me?" Her voice was sharp and held none of the warmness usually associated with Kimberly. Everyone thought of her as the sweetie, the nice one – yet she could be awfully scary when mad.

The former red gulped audibly and whispered, "Before." He started hard at the ground, begging it to open up and swallow him whole.

"Then why!" It was obvious she was struggling to keep from biting his head off, yet her voice still hit upon a high pitch and upon hearing the yelling Alex began to stir.

He let out a soft moan and blinked his eyes open, looking around in slight confusion. His eyes landed on Jason and the beautiful woman standing next to Jason, the sight of her sent his memory in a blur – his eyes widening when he realized what had happened. "Hi.." He said quietly, alerting them to his presence.

"Alex!" Jason and Kim chimed in unison, rushing to his bedside. "Are you alright?" They again asked together, causing them to share a slight smile – despite the fact that Kim was still upset.

The hospitalized boy forced a small smile. "A little sore, I'll be fine though." For that rare moment sarcasm was absent from the usually ironic boy.

Jason nodded, "You had us all so worried.." He confessed.

Alex looked confused. "Us?"

Jason laughed and nodded. "Yeah, us : Connor, Trent, Kira, Ethan, Kelly, Hayley, Dr O, Kim and me…Us."

It was corny, but Alex did feel a little touched at the thought of how many people he had who cared about him. If only I could manage to find someone my own age…He thought before noticing that Jason had said 'Dr. O' rather than 'Tommy'. Now at any other time, Alex would've done something, said something, or thought something – but before he could he was asking questions. "Where are they? The other kids, I mean. Are they alright?"

Again Jason nodded. "They're fine…" He saw Alex's slightly hurt look and added. "They went to get Dr. O and your aunt – don't worry, they'll all be here soon."

Alex relaxed in relief and closed his eyes, leaning back against his pillow. "That's good.."

Using Alex's lack of attention to her advantage, Kim mouthed to Jason, 'He doesn't know?' This slightly shocked her because it seemed that the group was so close and she had figured Alex, of all people, would have known or at least put together the pieces.

Jason shook his head 'no' and jumped in surprise when the silence in the room was shattered by Hayley rushing in.

"Is he alright? Please tell me he's ok." She practically begged Kim and Jason for good news of her nephew.

"I'm fine, Aunt Hayley." Alex opened his eyes and forceed himself into a sitting position. He had forgotten that he was mad at her and was simply glad she was there with him.

She smiled and relaxed, walking over and embracing him as gently as she could. "Thank goodness." She whispered. "Jason did you talk to the doctor?"

Jason nodded. "Nothing's broken and he'll be able to go home soon. They just want to run a few more tests. But he'll be back to normal pretty soon." Hayley smiled her thanks and simply sat on the edge of the bed in silence, looking over Alex to check for any signs of injury.

The silence went on and Kim finally decided that this wasn't the place for her. "Jason," She began, causing all occupants of the room to look her way. "I need to get going back to my hotel … you know, stuff to unpack, people to call …"

"Oh..right.." Jason paused to think before continuing. "What're you doing tonight?"

Kim gave him a slightly suspicious look. "Nothing..why?"

"Just come over to my place and we can catch up and I'll explain everything." Jason told her as Alex smirked, figuring that Jason was going to set up Dr O and Kim.

"Sure.." she said slowly as he handed her a piece of paper with his address written on it. "That sounds nice…"

"So I'll see you at eight?" He asked, holding the door open for her.

Kim nodded, "I'll see you then. Goodbye Hayley, feel better Alex.."

"Kim!" Alex called out as she stepped out the door.

She retreated a bit into the room and smiled over at him. "Yes?"

All eyes were on Alex as he smiled a bit. "Thank you for being here with me … I know you didn't plan on this and I'm sorry for lying to you … But you should still think about opening a school here .."

Kim grinned and nodded. "I will, Alex, don't worry. We'll take about all this tomorrow when you're all fixed up."

Alex laughed a bit. "Ok – Jason will tell you how to reach me." He waved goodbye to her as she left and laid down, happily knowing that she wasn't mad at him. Yet, missing the angry and jealous look on Hayley's face as Kim shut the door.

"Here we are." Connor told Kira as he stepped out of his car.

Kira looked around in confusion. "You drove me to…a cliff…?"

Connor shrugged, smirking a bit. "You did say that you wanted to come."

"Yes, I know that…what I meant was why here of all places?"

"Let me show you.." He walked around the car and took her hand, pulling her gently towards the edge of the cliff.

Kira gasped as she looked at the scene of the beach from afar that laid out before her. "It's beautiful.." She whispered, gazing out at the stunning sight.

The red ranger nodded in agreement. "I know…I love it up here.."

After a few moments of silence Kira looked over at Connor. "So why didn't you want to go see Alex?" She asked, looking into his eyes.

He averted his eyes and sat on the ground. "I dunno.." He paused. "I just..I felt so scared in that moment..I guess I didn't want to face it."

"You were scared?" There wasn't so much shock in her voice as questioning. She looked down at him as she plopped down on the dirt next to him.

"Yeah – I was scared." Connor snapped, seeming to think she was demeaning him for being so. "We have never ever let anyone get hurt and the one time that someone does get hurt…it's Alex, it's our friend…We're the Power Rangers, damn it! We're supposed to be watching out for people and we let out own friend get hurt!"

Kira placed her hand on his arm. "Connor stop – it's not your fault. It wasn't any of our faults. We tried out best to keep him safe…And he's going to be ok, I promise you that."

Connor could't believe her at first and then he glanced up into her eyes and nodded, believing her.

The yellow ranger smiled and looked out at the sea. "How'd you find this place?"

Connor smiled. "Remember when we first became rangers?" She nodded. "Well, I was freaking out a bit … so I got in my car and drove and drove…Somehow I ended up here…ever since then I come up here whenever I need to think – which by the way I can do." He snapped.

Sheepishly she looked down. "I know you can, Con. I mean, you know that we're only joking when we say that stuff right?"

"Yes, I know that.." He sighed. "It's just that sometimes it hurts to feel like you're not as smart as everyone else … like you're worthless …"

"Connor, no no no! You are worth something! You do mean something! I mean…" She found herself moving a little closer to him. "You mean something to me.." She added quietly.

He hid a blush and looked into her eyes, the sparkle there saying that she was the most beautiful thing that had ever walked the earth. "Thank you, Kira.."

"You're welcome.." She told him gently.

"I don't mean.." He continued. "Just for that. I mean thank you for being there for me, for never leaving my side, for making me happier…for giving me a reason to live and become a better person…Cause, Kira, without you I wouldn't be half the person that I am today." With every word he grew closer and as he whispered his finish he reached up to gently move her hair behind her ear.

"Connor.." Kira whispered, caught up in the moment with him.

"Look." He said suddenly. "I don't care if you hate me for this, but I don't think I can go another second without touching the lips of the most beautiful woman in the world.." It happened so quickly, yet at the same time it was in slow motion. He closed his eyes and leaned in to kiss the girl of his dreams and the moment their lips touched, time stopped. For those ten seconds that the kiss lasted they were woven together in a perfect kiss. A kiss that was sweet and simple, yet still made you weak at the knees. It had just the right amount of tongue and percisly the right movement of their lips. It was as if they were the only two people alive, as if they were flying and never coming back down.

"That was … great." Kira whispered once the kiss was broken, a huge smile beginnin to grace her features.

Connor nodded. "Amazing." He agreed."

"Mind-blowing."

The red ranger laughed. "So…you don't hate me right?"

Kira sighed happily. "That's nowhere close to how I feel."

Connor smirked a bit. "How do you feel?"

"Like I want to kiss you again."

"You could…you could kiss me all the time if you were my girlfriend…" It was a bit of a statement and a bit of a question.

"Meaning that you would be my boyfriend, correct?" She questioned back, leaning in closer and covering his lips with her own once he nodded in agreement.

His arms wrapped around her and he laughed once their second kiss was broken. "You know, I think I could get used to this.."

"So can I.." She answered back, leaning against his chest as the two watched the sunset over the ocean.

AN: Wow, it's been way to long. Sorry for not updating in months. Well I'm back and loving it. I hope you liked this chapter. I enjoyed writing it (Mostly the last part.) I didn't know I was going to write that, it just came out as I was writing. I wanted to put something extra in this chapter and I hope I did. I guess I should say I don't own, Power Rangers (Disney does). I also don't own any "Teen dramas on the WB." And I want to thank my friends for encouraging me to write this. And I also have to give credit to Aerosmith's "I don't want to miss a thing.", which was playing as I wrote the Conner/Kira part. It put me in the romantic mood, which I hope came off as you read it.

BN : I want to apologize to the writer, I know this took me like two months to beta – I hope this is worth the wait. To all readers this is amazing chapter and I hope you like it, please review. Oh and my favorite quote is, "We're the Power Rangers, damn it!" That's just too cute lol. Enjoy. 3