Mommy
By: Kary G.
Chapter 5

A/N: Thank you to my wonderful Beta Ckorkows for helping me out with this chapter.. I was at this point sooo lost, and my inspiration was not there. Thank you to my readers for the wait. I hope it was worth it. I haven't even finished other stories, and yet I have new ideas for more new stories, but that will have to wait. Enjoy this chapter, and please review to see how good or how bad I'm doing with this story =)

Gage explained their reason to be late, and also Sydney took her time to let their friends know her situation. They understood, and because of that they were not pushing her away, the Gage's were family to everybody in there. Sydney was not alone.

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Caroline was doing some paper work at St. Matthew's Hospital when she received a call from her friend Allison telling her about how they broke in her house.

"What? Oh my god… How's Piper? How's my daughter?" Caroline felt the panic rising.

"She's fine Caroline, some rangers came and stayed with me for a few moments, and they left after another car police arrived," She felt the need to tell Caroline about seeing Sydney, but knowing the state Caroline was in… she didn't want to make it worse.

"I'll be there in a few minutes," Caroline hung up, as she was moving some of the papers a few other slipped from their folders going straight to the floor, and she had to put them all in order, she stopped dead in her tracks as she saw a form from the Mental Facility, that was hers… she quickly opened a drawer, and placed the paper as she took a key and locked it.

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"Are you ok? Where's Piper?" A desperate Caroline entered Allison's house.

"She's sleeping, I gave her a bath, and now she's sleeping,"

"Thank you so much," Caroline took a hand sanitizer, and rubbed in her hands to fight the germs…

Caroline saw how Allison was putting her hands in the pocket, Allison was nervous, and Caroline noticed it. "Why are you nervous? And what do you have in your pocket?"

"Nothing Caroline. I'm not nervous…." But Caroline shut her as she took what she was in Allison's pocket.

"What are you doing with this? This photo needs to be buried.. I don't want to see her face again… ok?…"

"I understand… I'll burn it," she took the photo, and then kept it. Sydney Cooke needed to know about what was going on.

**The Next Day**

All the rangers were now inside Headquarters, focusing on their individual tasks. While listening to Trivette complain about his paperwork.

"I hate paperwork!" He complained.

"Are you kidding me? Paperwork is the best!" Trivette couldn't believe what the junior ranger said.

"Really?"

"Yep…especially when you take it home, and finish it while watching TV and eating popcorn," He laughed followed by his lovely wife. This was so unique between them, always joking around. If they weren't then their jobs would be absolutely boring.

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Allison stood outside the Ranger Headquarters. She still didn't know what was best for that baby girl. Should she go inside? Should she go back to Caroline? She took a deep breath, and pushed through the doors of Company B.

She was about to turn around and leave but knew that it was now or never. So, she opened the door, and stepped inside. She looked around the room before asking "May I speak with Ranger Sydney Cooke?"

Sydney stood up. "Allison… what are you doing here? Is everything ok?" Gage and the other Rangers stood up. Confusion began to fill the room, and their minds. What was Allison doing here? What was going on? These entire questions kept assaulting Sydney's head.

"No, Ranger Cooke everything is not okay. That little girl is in trouble with Caroline,"

"What makes you say that? How do you know she's not safe?" Sydney inquired concern for the child's safety showing on her face.

Attention was drawn to the nurse like a magnet pulling every single thing towards her. Allison blinked several time, each blink showing the nervousness she was in that moment. She wanted to run out of there. Will she be in trouble after telling the truth? But, if she didn't say a word… that would mean she was lying, and playing the game Caroline wanted her to play, to follow, and the guilt would be eating at her insides every time she saw that baby.

Allison's breath became rapid. Sydney took a few stops forward, and took the nervous girl arm. The senior rangers along with Gage began to follow Sydney, but she turned around, and held her hand out, they all understood her message, and stayed inside the Company. Sydney and led Allison outside so she could take some fresh air into her lungs. "Better?" Sydney's harsh voice kicked in.

She didn't say a word instead she nodded. "This conversation has to be in private, please.."

Sydney observed the frighten girl. Why was she asking to have this conversation in private? Couldn't she say whatever she had to say in front of her husband, and friends? In those moments she wasn't the victim but the interviewer, and whatever Allison had to say was not going to be neither easy nor pretty.

"Sure, follow me." Sydney turned around and stepped in Ranger HQ once again, this time to a new location where no cameras or any other eavesdropping device would interrupt them, just her and Allison no one else.

"Don't worry. We are alone, there's no one behind glass windows, no cameras. No nothing," hearing this made Allison a little better, less nervous…

"I'm sorry I kept this from you, I know I shouldn't have said something, but she threaten me, and I just couldn't do it, but when I saw you, and when you held Piper…."

"What's going on Allison?" adrenaline rushed through her body, every word that came out of Allison's mouth had a meaning…

"Ranger Cooke, Piper's your daughter," the last word came out as a whisper, hard to hear. So hard to understand that Sydney had to lean to hear that last word.

Sydney's face became pale, white like the snow. Here she was crying every night to sleep because she couldn't give a family to Gage, and now this… a… a daughter? Her eyes welled up with tears. She closed her eyes, and placed her hands in her head, waiting to hear Gage's voice telling her it was a bad dream. Silence filled the room. Sydney opened her eyes knowing… or was it imagining? Was this a dream? No… until her eyes focused the small grey table where her elbows were resting. It wasn't a dream. Not even the tears falling like big, fat raindrops…

"But…how?" the petite ranger asked before being attacked with more tears. Allison waited a few minutes until she calmed down, and began to speak.

"When you had the hysterectomy….."