"Mike you're going to finish all the food and still missing Emily and Mia!"
"One more" Mike asked and held his plate high enough for Ji to served him "Please"
Ji sighed "Ok, but if someone continue hungry it will be your fault"
"Ok" Mike nodded. He sat next to Lauren on the table.
Antonio, Kevin and Jayden were eating the rest of their foods but Lauren barely touched it. She had been quiet and thinking since they got home and it looked like she was sad.
Jayden held his hand and gave her a gentle squeeze. "You okay?"
"Fine" Lauren nodded her head. She left the fork and the untouched food and put it on the sink. She wasn't hungry and if she were, she would give Mike her food.
The red ranger returned to her seat and turned to Mike "How's Emily?"
"Fine. She was…." He passed his food "… with Mia when I left her. Oh Men! This food is delicious"
Lauren smiled and nodded. She sighed and stood on her chair lost in her thoughts. Everyone had finished their foods so the blue ranger kept her attention. He frowned and glared at Lauren.
"Lauren, are you okay?"
"I'm fine Kevin" Lauren answered
"You sure?... because you are normally quiet and calm but now… you're strange"
Lauren nodded again "I said I'm fine, really"
"Are you sure? Because I don't want to blame myself because of another person was shot"
Emily walked into the kitchen with Mia. Both girls smiled and sat on the table. Emily next to Mike, and Mia next to Kevin.
Mike ate his food and looked to Emily relieved "You're awake"
"I'm fine" Emily shrugged "But keep eating or your food will miss you"
Mike nodded and returned in his food. He was like a compulsive eater but without the winning weight. He was always hungry and he always wanted to eat the triplet of a normal person. Since they all knew, the rangers could identified Mike as the hunger boy.
As soon as Emily sat on the chair, her friends started to ask her questions. Now that they knew she was pregnant they wanted to make sure she was comfortable. A shot pregnant woman would need help and company in all senses; and the most important: patience.
Antonio walked to her and grabbed her shoulders. He shook her a little not hard to not hurt her. "How is the new mommy feeling?"
"Antonio I'm fine" The yellow ranger smiled and tried to balance after the shake.
"Do you need something?" Jayden asked
"You want to eat?" Ji asked
"Are you hurt?" Lauren asked.
"Are you really fine?" Kevin finally asked
Emily rolled her eyes and let out a sighed. She knew that from now things would change, a lot. "I-am- fine"
"But, you sure? How's your arm? Ji and I did our best to keep it safe but we weren't sure if…"
"Lauren I'm fine really" The yellow ranger rolled her eyes again. It was just few seconds with her friends and they had already started to fuss over her. "When I need something, I'll let you know, promise. Anyways the arm didn't hurt too much."
"Let's hope so" Kevin sighed.
Emily looked him and stared his arm. He had a bandage in his arm and, or he hurt in the time they were in the Shiba house or he had went out from the persecution hurt. "Kevin what happened to your arm?"
"Uh, nothing big" Kevin shrugged his shoulders
"Did that was my fault? Oh yes, Mike told me about you getting hurt, but are you okay?"
"Emily this wasn't your fault. It was the officer's fault. You did a great work protecting us"
"But…"
"The bullet just passed near me. It made a cut, nothing more"
Emily bit her lip "Really?"
"Totally"
The yellow ranger unconvinced nodded her head. Lauren gave her a gentle pat on the back and smiled.
"You did a great, great work. None of us ever could have thought in the way you did. Even Jayden didn't know what to do. We're fine because of you"
"Yes, I guess" Emily shrugged her shoulders
"Hiciste un buen trabajo Emily" Antonio said. "C'mon amiga. We owe you one"
"No you don't" Emily shook her head "I'm sure you would do the same"
Everyone started to talk about the hard run they had had, all the exchanges of opinions and feelings they experimented when they thought they didn't make it. The scare they were when the people ran after them or when they started to shout bad things. Everything they thought in that moment, they said it.
Ji meanwhile, was hearing. He had lost the connection of the T.V when they ran to the forest. The camera that was filming wasn't as fast as they to follow them all the way back so he didn't know what had happened. He just remembered when he saw his rangers ran into the wood and when they appeared in the yard tired, with a hurt Kevin and an unconscious Emily.
"So I'm sure we wouldn't make it without Emily" Jayden assured
"Yes Em, thanks" Mia smiled
"Thanks Emily" Lauren added.
"So, now can you tell me what happened?" Ji asked, a little bored because he didn't understand about what the rangers were talking about.
"You didn't know Ji? They didn't tell you?"
Antonio joined the talk "Trust me Emily, when we appeared with you bleeding, the last thing we thought was on telling Ji what happened"
"Speaking of you Emily…" Ji said "I talked with some friends. A doctor will came to check up on you. You lost a considerable amount of blood and, though you look fine, I'm sure you don't want to risk"
"Yes, please" Emily answered.
"A friend?" Mike frowned "You have a doctor friend? Is he going to come here?"
"Is that not risky Ji?" Kevin asked
"It's okay, guys" Ji assured "We need infiltrates in the city to let us know how is the situation there. The doctor who is going to come is the one who informed me about the cases the day Splitface appeared in the city and started to eat souls, you remember?"
All eyes rolled to Emily. She just smiled.
"He's trustworthy" Ji continued.
"We'll see it" Mike added "Now, we're going to rest right? I'm so tired and…" A yaw interrupted him and smiled "Let's go to sleep"
"I'm with you" Antonio said. He walked out and directed to his room. Jayden, Lauren, Mia, Kevin and Emily joined him and they direct to their respective rooms.
Ji stayed in his stool and shrugged his shoulders "I guess, today there's no more talks"
