Dillon and Tenaya had gone back into her cell for some privacy following the revelation of the connection between them. Before then, he knew that they were connected by what Venjix had done to them. Now though he knew that there was more to it than that.

They sat in silence for a long time, unable to think of how to begin their conversation. They both had a million questions for each other.

"I can't believe we're related." Dillon finally whispered as he managed to find something to say. "My head's been so foggy and muddled...I didn't know what my memories meant or if they were real."

"I can't remember anything either." She mumbled. "I don't remember anything before Venjix pulled me out of that pod. Occasionally I'd think I smelled something or heard something, but I never knew what any of it meant."

Dillon pulled out his pocket watch, opening it and letting the music begin to play. Tenaya smiled as she heard it.

"I don't know exactly what it means to me, but I remember this song." She told him. She closed her eyes and reached out for the watch. Dillon considered this for a second, fearful of handing over the one connection to his past that he knew brought images to him. He finally relented, placing it in her hand. Tenaya turned it over in her hand, again and again, smiling as she felt the surface. "This watch, I remember it for some reason."

"I had it with me when I woke up in the wasteland." Dillon informed her. "I knew it meant a lot to me, I just never knew why. I saw your face when I heard the music playing."

"I feel...happy when I hear it." She replied quietly, searching her brain for any further memories. "It belongs to someone I trust...with my life...with my safety. It's important to me."

Her eyes opened as she closed the watch, handing it back to him. "I think I gave you this watch."

"I can't believe I finally have you back." Dillon sighed, thinking about it. "This is insane, you're my sister and yet...I remember hardly anything about you."

"It's alright, I know this is hard for you. It's hard for me too." She told him, reaching over for him and taking his hand. Dillon smiled as he got another flashback. He reached up, gently taking her by the elbow.

"So where do we go from here?" She asked him. "It feels weird to think of you as my brother. I have feelings I can't explain or understand."

She slumped backwards into her seat, looking up to the ceiling as she tried to make sense of everything she had heard. "How are we meant to act around each other?"

"I guess we can only take it one step at a time." He suggested. "I guess maybe we should try being friends before we can try being siblings. Summer swears by her therapist, maybe he can help us."

"So what do we call each other?" She asked him.

"I think Tenaya would be a good start for me." He offered her. "I don't know if you'll appreciate baby sister just yet, and in the absence of your real name..."

"That sounds good to me." She replied with a slight laugh. "I suppose you don't want me to keep calling you Ranger Black."

"Dillon." He told her. "You can call me Dillon."

Late that night, Summer came into the main room to find Gemma and Dr. K talking at length, catching up on the time that had passed since she believed them to have perished. She came over, finding them sitting in their pyjamas. Dr. K was wearing her puppy dog slippers. She couldn't help laughing as she saw this bizarre scene. She would never have thought of Dr. K being involved in a slumber party, but that was exactly how it looked. Because of her intelligence and the fact she could still be a little distant, she often forgot that she was still so young. In Gemma's presence, she seemed so different.

"Is something amusing to you Summer?" Dr. K asked her. Gemma looked up at her with her usual huge, toothy grin. It seemed that even without her brother's presence she was just as irrepressibly cheerful.

"I just think it's really great to see you like this." She replied, sitting on the couch with them. "I've never seen you so cheerful."

"I suppose I've never really been that close to you." She replied honestly. "Gemma's my oldest female friend, while here all I had in the way of female company was Tenaya, who is technically our prisoner, Sam, who doesn't live with us, and yourself who as the sole other female on the team has been essentially as much a competitor for me as a companion."

"Competitor?" Summer asked her curiously.

"With any colony there is always an underlying biological predisposition for the females to sabotage and undermine each other for the sole attention of the males in the group in order to attract the most desirable mate." She replied with her usual tact. "For what it's worth, it is nothing personal."

"No offence taken." Summer replied. "How are you settling in here Gemma?"

"Now that I've actually been able to get into the bedroom I'm settling in. I'm sure we're going to be super close!" She said in a bouncy tone. Summer turned a little pink as she said this. She hadn't been thinking much the night before hand. She didn't mean to lock Gemma out of the room for the whole night, but all things considered, it was understandable that she had wanted some privacy. She and Dillon had just gotten a little caught up in the moment and had ended up falling asleep.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that." She said nervously. "I didn't mean anything by it."

"I understand." She chirped as she reached for a cup of hot chocolate in front of her.

"I know you have been involved in a relationship with Dillon for some time." Dr. K said with a slightly devilish grin on her face. "I suppose it was inevitable."

"So?" Gemma asked her. "Give us the details!"

Summer was a little unsure about this. She and Dr. K weren't especially close as she had mentioned herself, and she had only just met Gemma a short time ago. She looked around the room.

"I'm not really sure." She told her. "Where are the guys?"

"Dillon, Flynn, Scott and Ziggy took Gem to the bar for some team bonding." Dr. K told her. "No doubt they're taking part in some kind of irresponsible and competitive male bonding ritual involving loud music and more alcohol than is advisable. Tenaya is in her cell."

"You know, now that we know who she is, maybe we should give her a little more slack." Gemma suggested. "I doubt she'll want to harm any of you now that she's found her brother."

"She hasn't made any moves." Summer reminded Dr. K. "She basically stopped being our prisoner a while ago. Maybe it's time we gave her a more comfortable room."

"I suppose it does seem a little redundant given Ziggy's habit of leaving the door unlocked." Dr. K replied with a shrug. "I'll invite her to join us."

"Anyway, you still haven't told us about last night." Gemma pointed out. Summer looked at them both a little sheepishly.

"You know if we are going to do this, we should really do it right." She told them. "I have some wine in the fridge."

"You are of course aware that the legal age of consumption is 21 and as such I am underage." Dr. K added. "We are also unaware of Tenaya's exact age."

"I won't tell if you don't." Summer replied.

"Come on Dr. K, join us." Gemma encouraged her. "The guys are all bonding, how often do you think we'll really have to spend some time together without the guys interrupting us?"

"I'll get Tenaya." She said as she finally relented to them, finding the thought of spending some time alone with the others quite appealing. "You get the wine."

In the bar, Scott and Ziggy were giving Gem an education in how to play pool. He had said he had never played before, and given the fact he had spent most of his life between Alphabet Soup and fighting Venjix in the wastes, they could believe that.

"Boom!" He called out excitedly as he sank another ball, gesturing wildly. Scott just groaned and shook his head as the other customers looked around at him like he was mad.

"Uh...Gem, would you keep it down a little?" He asked him quietly. "What have I told you about sound effects?"

"Sorry." He replied. They had hoped that separating the twins would maybe curb their enthusiasm a little, though so far that hadn't worked. Flynn and Dillon just sat in the corner quietly drinking.

"I think they might have been in the sun a little too long." Flynn commented. "Either that or they found a Prozac factory and went to town."

"I have to admit they are unique." Dillon replied, though it was obvious that his thoughts were on anything other than the new Gold Ranger. Flynn couldn't really blame him, it had been a life-changing couple of days.

"It's been a busy couple of days for you, hasn't it pal?" He asked the Black Ranger. "You've found out a lot about yourself."

"It has been pretty hectic." Dillon agreed. "I really wish I didn't have to see those things in Omega City though. That was definitely not fun."

"I guess finding out you were almost a flesh-eating zombie wouldn't feel good." Flynn said sympathetically. "I guess you had to see that. At least you have a better idea of what Venjix did to you."

"It's just a shame it took it 43 attempts to get it right." Dillon replied sarcastically as he sank his beer. "I know we didn't have a choice but to destroy them, but I kind of feel guilty...you know...like maybe if it wasn't for me..."

"You know you shouldn't feel bad about surviving." Flynn responded. "I'm pretty sure Tenaya's glad you made it. Not to mention Summer."

Dillon got a little smirk on his face hearing this. It was a little clumsy, but that was just the way Flynn was. He knew the others would want to talk to him about what happened between him and Summer, and also the new information they had found out about Tenaya.

"I still don't know how to feel about what happened." Dillon sighed. "After the download I still don't know how much of my memory I can rely on. I was beginning to doubt everything I thought I knew. Now I find out that I have a little sister."

"She's not so little now." Flynn commented. "You know she's able to look after herself now."

"I just don't really know how I'm meant to act...what I'm meant to do." He replied. "I mean...neither of us remembers the other. The only thing between us is DNA...the blood in our veins might be the same but how exactly are we able to act?"

"Well it was only me and dad, so I really couldn't tell you." Flynn said with a shrug. "I've never had any brothers or sisters."

"It still feels a little weird to think of her that way." Dillon stated. "I can't believe she's been so close for so long and I never figured it out."

"Well you do have a lot of other things on your mind." Flynn reminded him. "Like a certain cute little blonde lass."

"Flynn, don't start with me." Dillon warned him, gesturing to Ziggy to get another round of beers between shots. "I didn't do anything wrong..."

"Dillon, you know I was worried about her in the beginning, but I've seen how you've taken care of her." He responded. "I'd have understood if you had decided it wasn't worth it. It can't have been easy having to watch her going through all of that..."

"Actually it was." Dillon said with a smile. "I never once thought about it that way. She gave me so much more than I could ever have imagined, even when she was struggling. I was there for every one of her breakthroughs. I wouldn't have cared if we never...you know...just the fact that she had that much faith in me was all that mattered."

"Well the first time's always special." Flynn told him sagely as Ziggy arrived with more beers. The two just stayed quiet briefly while he looked between them both nervously. Flynn could guess that he was worried about him telling Dillon that he knew what had happened between him and Tenaya.

"What are you guys talking about?" He asked them.

"Lightningball." Flynn lied expertly.

"It's the big charity game in a few days." Dillon reminded him. "We were just wondering if Chas and Hicks will have recovered in time for the game."

"They were both pretty messed up after the raid." Ziggy whispered as he turned and left the table. "If you'll excuse me, I think Gem's getting a little over-excited again. I need to save him before Scott loses his patience."

Flynn turned back to Dillon and nodded in understanding. He knew Dillon was grateful that he respected his privacy.

"So...how do you feel now that it happened?" Flynn asked him.

"It sounds clichéd, but if anything...I love her more." Dillon replied. "I can't imagine wanting to be with anyone else."

"I kind of felt that way about Sam." Flynn assured him. "I'm already sure she's the one."

"The one?" Dillon said with a smile, thinking about Summer. "I like the sound of that...yeah...she's the one."

Back at the Garage, Gemma laughed as Summer finished explaining how she felt about what had happened between herself and Dillon. Out of respect for how awkward it would be for Tenaya given the fact she had just learned that Dillon was her brother, she had spared them the gory details of the act, and had instead just told them about how she felt.

"There were times I would never have thought I could go that far, but it just felt...right." She concluded.

"Well it has been pretty obvious that your relationship with Dillon..."

"Could you please not finish that statement?" Tenaya begged Dr. K. "I mean...it's messing with my head enough knowing he's my brother without imagining...well...just...ew!"

Gemma giggled as she gulped some wine. "It must have been hard living in the same building as all those guys for all that time."

"It had its moments." Summer agreed.

"I will admit to having had a few such thoughts myself." Dr. K admitted drunkenly. Given her young age and her small stature, it was becoming clear that the wine was starting to go to her head. The others just looked at her in slight bemusement. "Why are you all so surprised? I'm smart, but I'm still human. I do experience human passions."

"Well it's just odd to think of you thinking about things like that." Summer remarked. "I do remember having that talk about the number 10, but if I remember rightly...you didn't answer me."

"I did not." Dr. K said in a slightly tipsy laugh. "Although a part of that is down to my earlier admission to seeing you as competition. I will admit to being a little territorial."

"So you watched the guys for all of that time?" Summer asked her.

"Do you really think it was necessary for all of you to strip to your underwear for the original testing and medical examinations?" Dr. K asked her. "I still have those recordings...I sometimes enjoyed watching them."

Summer and the others all laughed as she admitted this, knowing that she would never have admitted this had she been sober.

"What? The males are attractive." She stated again more forcefully as the fact the others were laughing at her annoyed her a little. "Has it never occurred to you that only the Series Yellow suit was created with a skirt?"

"I always kind of thought you intended the Series Yellow operator to be a girl." Summer replied.

"Actually I only knew once you passed your test." Dr. K told her. "I added the skirt because I have no desire to see the shape of your posterior. No offence Summer."

"None taken." She replied, taking another sip. "So you still didn't tell me which of the guys scored 10 on the cuteness scale for you."

"I have to admit never having such thoughts about Ziggy...he was always a little...scrawny for my tastes." She began. None of the others noticed Tenaya's reaction. She hated to hear anyone speak about Ziggy that way.

"Flynn is...cute...in a cuddly kind of way...I can understand why Sam likes him." Dr. K continued. "Dillon, while irritating in his defiant manner is admittedly a desirable partner in a purely physical sense..."

"Scott!" The three others all called out at once.

"I thought as much." Summer chuckled as she poured them all another glass. "He is kind of attractive."

"He is a cute." Gemma agreed. "He isn't spoken for either. I may just have to try getting to know him a little better."

Summer definitely noticed a less-than-enthusiastic look on Dr. K's face as her friend said this. She could now believe what Dr. K said about being territorial.

The girls continued to laugh and joke as the guys arrived back from their time at the bar. Gem rejoined his sister as she finished her glass.

"I see you all had much the same idea as us." Scott remarked, noticing the scene before him. "Mind if we join you?"

"Of course we don't mind." Summer told them as Dillon took his place on the couch next to her. "It will really help if we all get used to each other."

Ziggy was careful to take a seat on the opposite side of the group to where Tenaya was sitting. She couldn't help feeling a little disappointed that he wouldn't want to sit with her, but she could understand in a way. It wasn't as though the others were likely to understand how these feelings between them had developed, and seeing the way he kept looking over to Dillon, she knew that there was at least one more complication in the way.

The following morning, Chas was busy dressing the wound in his leg when his fiancée came into the room.

"How are you feeling today?" She asked him, handing him his trousers. They were still getting used to their somewhat more Spartan living accommodations since his father had cut him off. Chas pulled them on, smiling as he saw her.

"I never thought I'd be facing the press again." He commented, kissing Brie gently. "I can't believe I'm going to do this."

"You know I'll stick by you." Brie replied as she picked out a shirt for him. "I think this one suits you."

"If it wasn't for that, I'd never have agreed to stand." He told her flatly, pulling on the shirt and beginning to button it up. "It'll take the two of us to get through this. Dad's not going to be happy when he finds out he isn't running unopposed."

"He might not play fair, but you're by far the better of the Winchester men." She assured him. "He would never have done what you did for this city."

"It's going to be hard to compete with his cheque book." He replied. "I know I have that trust fund my Aunt left me, but that's still going to be nowhere near the kind of money he'll throw at this."

He heard a knock on the door, and made his way to answer it, putting on his tie as he went. He opened the door to find his father standing in the doorway. His mood noticeably darkened as he saw him.

"I got an interesting phone call today." He greeted his son. "A journalist asked me if I had any comment about your announcement that you'd be standing against me."

"I haven't actually made that announcement yet." Chas corrected him. "I'm just getting ready for my press conference now actually."

"If I were you I'd get such silly thoughts out of your head." He replied in a condescending sneer. "No one's going to back you."

"Colonel Truman's already agreed to help me with my campaign." Chas informed him. "He thought I'd do a good job."

"You haven't achieved anything in your whole life." Mr. Winchester laughed. "What do you know about politics?"

"I learned a lot watching you." Chas told him. "You only want the power. I want what's best for Corinth and my family."

"What family?" Mr. Winchester asked him. "You and that..."

"Don't you dare say anything about Brie!" Chas warned him angrily. "She's supported me since the battle. You disowned me because I told the truth about Summer. She's more my family than you."

"You know better than to think I'll let you beat me!" Mr. Winchester spat angrily. "This is your last chance to back out before things get...uncomfortable."

"Goodbye dad." Chas said coldly. "I'll see you on the campaign trail."

With that, he slammed the door closed, breathing a sigh as he considered the wisdom of his actions. He turned around, finding Brie standing there.

"I'm sorry, I really wish you hadn't heard that." He told her. "It's me he's angry with, it shouldn't affect you."

"It will affect me Chas, we're in this together." She told him. "You know he's going to say anything to get his way. It would be naive to think he won't try to smear me. I don't care what he says about me, I love you."

"You've been great about all of this." He complimented her. "I know this has been a big change."

"I can't say it didn't hurt that a lot of my friends have stopped calling." She remarked, beginning to prepare some toast for him. "But if they couldn't support us just because the money isn't there anymore, then they were never really our friends."

She bit her bottom lip gently as she considered what she was about to say next. She knew she had to tell him, and right now he could do with the good news.

"As long as you're here, I know everything will be fine." She told him. "The three of us will be fine."

"Can I have that in writing?" He asked her. "I mean...wait...did you say the three of us?"

Brie just nodded in response, before coming to his side. Chas swept her up in his arms and smiled broadly, holding her tightly.

"I'm going to be a dad!" He yelled happily. "I'm going to be a dad!"