Sarah played mindlessly with her hands, twisting them, pulling on her fingers and tapping them against her legs as she waited on news of Mrs. Foster's condition. Calvin sat with her and across the room, Hayley was with her father. Neither Calvin and Sarah wanted to intrude on this personal matter, but wanted to be close, just in case they were needed.

"It'll be okay," Calvin said and squeezed Sarah's shoulder gently. "It's the best doctors at this hospital and a slim chance is better than none."

"I shouldn't have trusted him, even a little," Sarah said. "It felt like a trap, we've been fooled like this before…"

"We had to give him some trust," Calvin said.

"I wanted to believe it was true!"

"Sarah, you did everything you could," Calvin assured her. "We kept him close, we all agreed on what we'd tell him and what we'd keep. I'm just glad this happened before we told him about the base. He could have done some real damage."

"They won't forgive me, will they?" Sarah asked and looked to Calvin. He glanced over to his girlfriend and her father. He shrugged.

"Well, Mr. Foster has no reason to think you have anything to do with this."

"Until Hayley tells him."

"Hayley won't do that," Calvin shook his head. "Not without discussing it with us first. Not until she talks to you."

"She won't talk to me."

"Hayley? I mean, I can't say you won't get the silent treatment. Could last maybe one or two…"

"Days? Weeks? Months…"

"Hours," Calvin said with a chuckle and gently nudged Sarah. "Come on, Sarah. You know Hayley better than that. She's not the type to throw away a perfectly good friendship just because a friend's parent is a psychotic murderer."

"So this happened before?"

"Well… no," Calvin answered with a shake of his head. "It's not really something we considered but… Hayley's forgiven me for some really stupid stuff in the past. And that's for stuff I did. I'm pretty sure she'll know it was your dad, not you, who killed her mother and she'll let you off the hook real easy. Though… I'm sure you know that already."

"What do you mean?"

"I know it might not be right away but… whatever happens, Sarah, make sure that you forgive yourself," Calvin said. "You had no idea this would happen. We all did everything we could to keep ourselves and the city safe. This isn't anyone's fault but Oedius."

"And my dad."

"Maybe keep an open mind on that," Calvin said.

"It's all they had," Kelly announced as she arrived back in the hospital waiting room with a handful of snacks. It looked like she had emptied out a vending machine as she dumped the snacks on the chair next to Sarah. Jenny, who had gone with Kelly, went to talk to Mr. Foster and Hayley. "I can check the store down the street if nothing's right."

"I think we have more than enough," Calvin said and gently pulled Kelly down into a chair, making her sit. Kelly hadn't been able to keep still since they arrived at the hospital. Understandably she was hurt and scared by what had happened but couldn't justify to herself being in as much pain as Hayley and her father. Though she had been living with the Fosters for over a year now, and she had, on numerous occasions, called them the best parents she ever had, it didn't feel right to her to think she was hurting as much as Hayley.

So she kept busy, running errands for anyone so she wouldn't have to choose between sitting with the Fosters, or sitting with Sarah and Calvin. Sensing she needed to keep busy for a while, Calvin had asked her to get some snacks, claiming he was hungry. He had a well-known appetite and knew Kelly would spend some time collecting and assortment of food for him and Sarah.

"How are you holding up?" he asked her and Kelly shrugged.

"I mean… I'm okay," she said. "I've done the dead parent thing twice already and… Anne wasn't really my mom so…"

"She was more of a mother than anyone else," Calvin said. "How are you really doing?"

"What if she doesn't make it?" Kelly asked. "And… what if they don't want me to stay anymore?"

"You'll stay with us," Sarah chimed in, almost immediately. "No question."

"But you want to stay with them?" Calvin asked Kelly, who nodded yes.

"They're my family. They're the best I've got and…"

"Go sit with them," Calvin said and looked over at Hayley. As preoccupied as she was, she did look over to Calvin and Sarah occasionally, just to reassure Calvin that she was okay. He subtly gestured to Kelly and Hayley knew what he meant. She nodded.

Calvin pushed Kelly out of her chair, "Go sit with them."

"But…"

"Ask if they need snacks," he said, offering Kelly any excuse to go over. He knew once she was there, Hayley would tell her to stay. He put a bag of chips and a bag of candy in her hands and pushed her. Kelly made her way over hesitantly, offered the chips and then sat down. Hayley took her hand.

"Thank you," Sarah whispered to Calvin, who nodded.

"They need each other," he told her. "It's the least I can do."

"How are you so calm?" Sarah asked. He turned to her.

"I guess because I have to be," he answered. "No one should expect Hayley or Mr. Foster to be calm right now. Kelly's so scared, she's got no idea where to sit, and you're falling apart over all of this…"

"Aren't you worried? Mad?"

"Yeah," Calvin nodded. "Terrified and pissed."

"Doesn't show."

"Who would it help?" Calvin asked. "I can't be more pissed off with you than you are with yourself. There's no way I'm more scared than Hayley, Kelly and Mr. Foster."

"My mom's here," Sarah said and pointed to her mother, who was asking around to see if there were any updates on Mrs. Foster.

"She's just faking it, though. Like me," Calvin said. "Only, she has the added baggage or having just learned her husband's responsible for all this. I've gotta think she's only helping out of guilt right now. Pretty sure once she leaves, once she's done looking after the Fosters and looking after you, she'll fall apart too."

"This is messed up, Cal," Sarah said. He put his arm around her.

"Yeah," he nodded. "But we'll pull through."

-Ninja-Steel-

"This is messed up," Preston frowned. "How… how could this happen?"

"It's got to mean something else," Levi said. "Imposter doesn't necessarily mean Mr. Thompson, does it?"

All eyes turned to Mick. He didn't have any real answers. All he could do what shrug.

"Who else could it mean?" Mick asked. "Can we really assume that Oedius would randomly select a Ranger family? That she would say something about an imposter shortly after Mr. Thompson's return?"

"Madame Oedius never does anything randomly," Brody said. "Everything's planned. Everything's calculated exactly."

"But she just lost her mole by exposing him," Levi said. "She'd have to know we'd hear the imposter comment. That's why she said it. Now we know not to trust Mr. Thompson. He can't give her any information now."

"Maybe he's done everything she wanted," Mick suggested. "Going after any of our families is tragic but… Hayley's might just hit hardest… uh, no offense, Rangers."

"What do you mean?" Levi asked.

"Hayley's family spreads widest in our group. Two of our Rangers view Mrs. Foster as a mother figure. Two Rangers will feel this loss."

"Hayley and Kelly," Preston nodded.

"And their pain will be felt by Calvin and Sarah as well," Mick added.

"Not to mention the guilt Sarah probably feels knowing her dad did this," Levi said.

"One quick move and she's crippled over half the team," Brody pointed out with a shake of his head.

"But what does Sarah's dad have to do with this?" Preston asked. "Mick, when you called, wasn't he with Jenny? And Hayley's dad said it was Oedius who attacked. She pulled this off herself. And Oedius already knew who we were. She probably knew who our parents were."

"Aiden probably shared that much," Levi muttered.

"I told her who to kill," Bill said, announcing his arrival. The Rangers and Mick jumped as they turned to the door only to find him standing there, his hands up.

"You son of a bitch," Preston growled and took a step forward, stopping only because Levi had grabbed his arm.

"What are you doing here?"

"I just want to explain."

"Sarah and Jenny aren't here," Levi said. "And I'm sure they don't want to see you right now."

"You told Madam Oedius who to kill?" Preston asked. Bill nodded his head.

"You have to understand, it wasn't an easy choice. She said she'd kill Jenny if I didn't choose someone. I love my wife, I love my daughter. I'd never let anything happen to them."

"So you ruin Hayley's family instead?" Levi asked.

"Kill?" Preston said, looking to his teammates before turning to Bill. "What do you mean, kill? Hayley's mom's in the hospital, in surgery…"

"She won't make it."

"How do you know that?"

"Oedius meant to kill her."

"Let's hope she didn't succeed," Preston said. "It's the least you could do after hand choosing her."

"She succeeded. If I've learned anything about her it's that she gets her way all the time," Bill said. "She made me work for her after she saved me in the clone attack. If I did what she asked, she wouldn't hurt Sarah. She wouldn't kill my family."

"Just everyone else."

"I thought… I thought I could do something," Bill said. "If I fed her information, just enough to make her think I was doing what she wanted… maybe I could do something to help you guys. But she came to me the other day with this plan and basically said someone was going to die. I couldn't stop that."

"Better them than you, right?"

"I didn't want this to happen but… I didn't have a choice. Oedius wanted someone to die today. If I didn't pick, it'd be Jenny."

"We could have kept her safe."

"Then Oedius would know I wasn't working for her," Bill said. "She told me, if Mick or Dane or Red-Robot showed up to protect Anne, and if Jenny wasn't home, she'd join the fight and she'd stop at nothing to kill Sarah."

"So Mrs. Foster was the easy sacrifice?"

"It wasn't easy," Bill said. "Please, you have to understand. Sarah's furious with me and Jenny won't let me see her again until this is sorted and…"

"Sorted?" Preston asked with a deep frown. "You just admitted to murdering our friend's mother and you want this to be sorted?"

"My hands were tied."

"So you just watched all this unfold? That fight, the distraction… you let Sarah run into it knowing her girlfriend's mother would be killed?"

"She would have killed Sarah if I betrayed her."

"So you betrayed your family instead?" Preston asked. "I wouldn't blame Sarah if she never spoke to you again."

"You aren't welcome here," Levi told Bill.

"I didn't know what to do," Bill insisted, but Levi pointed to the door. With his head hung low, Bill turned and walked away. Preston slammed the barn door behind him.

"Son of a bitch," he muttered.

"So what do we do now?" Brody asked.

"Go show Hayley and Kelly your support," Mick said. "If Bill was telling the truth, your parents should be safe, but RedBot and I will stay here and keep an eye on things, just to be sure. If anything suspicious happens, we'll let you know."

"We have no idea how much Mr. Thompson shared with Madam Oedius," Levi said. "You watch your backs, alright?"

"We'll be alright," Mick promised. "Go be with the others."