Ch 12: Reuniting a step at a time

As Dara and the troublesome two-some caught up on life, more Rangers had slowly wandered in, looking for the originals. Ernie slowly sends them all back towards where Kim, Jason and Tommy had wandered off to, all but one.

When Ernie saw Justin walk in he just smiled, "Justin, good to see you again."

"Thanks Ernie, you haven't by any chance seen Tommy have you?" Justin asks as he looks around

"Oh I've seen Tommy, but I think you need to go talk to the girl at the bar first. She has streaked hair and sitting with Bulk and Skull." Ernie nods over to the group.

Justin looks at the girl and raises an eyebrow, "Why do I need to talk to her?" he asks softly

Ernie chuckles a bit, "Just go talk to her. You haven't seen her in a long time."

Justin walks over to her and glances back to Ernie more then a little confused at first.

"Yea well if I have my way I'm back for good." Dara tells the boys, "Just have one last task to do then I'm resigning from my post."

Justin pauses as he hears a voice from the past, "De? Is it really you?" he asks as he stands behind her.

Dara grins and twirls in her seat "Baby Blue! Long time no see." she laughs at the look on his face at the old nickname

"Really must you call me that?" Justin asks as he gives his adopted sister a hug.

"Well yeah... It is my nickname for you after all." Dara answers as she sticks her tongue out at him with a grin, returning the hug.

"Still annoying though, anyone else know your back yet?" Justin inquires glancing back to where Ernie is standing.

"Ummm... just you three and Ernie for now... waiting to introduce myself to the others and see how many of them can tell its me." Dara comments with a smirk on her face.

Justin nods some "alright well I have to get to the others, my girlfriend was coming in with Tommy and his juniors."

Dara laughs softly "Juniors eh? About like how you used to be?" she carefully asks.

Justin smirks "Yup, I'll see you later." he places a kiss on her forehead and walks off to where Ernie is now pointing out the others to him.

Bulk and Skull exchange a glance with one another, having already figured out after the Astros went public who all the previous rangers had been.

"So... Little sister... how long have you known the ranger secret?" Bulk asks softly.

Dara raises an eyebrow, "How do you know the secret?" she asks just as quietly.

Bulk smirks some "Astros went public, was just a matter of back tracking who hung out with who back in the day."

Dara laughs and nods some "yea i suppose that would make it easy to know what was up with the old group."

Skull nods "yea however there was always one thing we never could figure out."

Raising an eyebrow in curiosity, Dara asks, "whats that?"

"How you fit into it all." Bulk says as if it should have been obvious.

Dara smirks some, "That's a story for another day."