It was after dark when Sarah got home. She was expecting hell from Jenny, but when she walked through the door, Mick was standing in her front hall as well.

Neither looked pleased with her. Sarah gulped as she set her hoverboard down.

"Should I just go to my room?" she asked.

"What exactly were you thinking?" Mick frowned and he was twitching a little bit, indicating how angry he was. Mick was a bit of a twitchy guy on a good day, but when his emotions were high, it tended to get a little out of control. "We've been everywhere looking for you! Do you have any idea how dangerous it is to deactivate the tracker on your communicator?"

"I had something I needed to do," Sarah shrugged.

Mick looked like he was going to boil over his face was so red. Jenny, however, laughed.

"Something you had to do?" she said. "You had something you had to do?"

"Uh… yeah?"

"Do you realize that something had me visiting both Kathryn and Drex in prison to find out if you had been by?"

"Preston and Kelly called you, huh?"

"Do you realize that something had me calling and texting you for hours, wondering why you wouldn't pick up? Wondering what the hell happened to you and if I was going to find your body in some ditch?"

"I wasn't in any danger."

"Oh, you weren't in danger," Jenny said in a teasing tone as her temper continued to flare. "Oh, you're right. Because whenever a sixteen-year-old runs off after school and her friends are telling me she was talking about visiting her mother in prison, there's never any danger to worry about."

"But…"

"Are you freaking kidding me, Sarah?" Jenny screamed and even Mick winced at her voice. "Do you want my hair to go absolutely white? Do you want me to have a heart attack? Do you want me to ground you for the rest of your life? Because I can do that!"

"You worried us both," Mick said. "You were alone, Sarah. If Galvanax had seen you by yourself, who knows what he could have decided to do. You wouldn't have been able to call for help, if he even gave you that chance."

"What the hell was going through your head, Sarah?" Jenny asked. "What on earth made you think that there was any good excuse for what you were doing?"

"I…"

"Why are you so much damn trouble?" Jenny shouted. "The clones, the time machine, the car accident, the brain damage, running off…"

Sarah shrugged her shoulders as she felt her eyes start to well up with tears. She had known to expect hell from Jenny the moment she left Kelly and Preston at school. She thought she would be able to take it. A little grounding, some shouting, but after hearing what her grandmother had to say, Sarah was starting to think she had gotten a little in over her head. Jenny listing off the ways she had already caused trouble for her mother really didn't help things.

"What the hell am I going to do with you?" Jenny frowned, her voice softening when she saw Sarah was getting upset. She was glad to see Sarah was responding in some way. She wanted to drill it in now that this wouldn't be okay. She didn't want Sarah to think she could get away with this for any reason, and then do it again when there was a chance she wouldn't get as lucky. "And what the hell am I going to do if I lose you too, huh?"

Sarah shrugged her shoulders and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. Mick placed his hand on her shoulder.

"We were very worried, Sarah. Your mother and I really just… wanted to know you were safe," he said, then squeezed her shoulder. "So… where did you go?"

"Can I talk with my mom?" Sarah asked. Mick looked to Jenny, then nodded his head. He had to assume this was a family matter. He had what he needed: his pink Ranger was safe at home.

"You'll be in class tomorrow?" he said and Sarah nodded. "You'll help Calvin and Hayley with their projects? You'll join us for training?"

"Promise," Sarah said.

"Have a good night, then," Mick said and walked out of the door. Sarah looked to her mother, who still had her arms crossed over her chest and was glaring intensely.

"Well?"

"I was…"

"You can tell me that later," Jenny frowned. "Right now, I want you to tell me what the hell you think I'd do without you? Because I damn well know it won't be good."

Sarah shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know."

"Exactly," Jenny said. "I don't know is exactly right. I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you. I was worried sick, Sarah. I was this close to calling the police. Mick was about to send out the other Rangers. You're grounded."

"Fair enough," Sarah nodded.

"You're either at school, training, or you're in your room. No hanging out with your friends, Kelly isn't coming over, and the garage is completely off limits. You even look at it, you're looking at a month in your room. Do you understand?"

Sarah nodded her head and started to make her way upstairs, certain Jenny's punishment was effective immediately. However, on her way, she stopped and hugged Jenny tight.

"Thank you," she whispered, then hurried up the stairs. Jenny stood baffled as she watched her daughter, then groaned as she headed into the kitchen and picked up her parenting book from the table.

"Where the hell is that chapter on missing Ranger kid coming home, getting yelled at and grounded by evil step-mother, then still hugs you and serves her time without complaint?"

She flipped through the book, then tossed it aside, "I've really got to write my own."