A little secret

Hey readers, sorry I had to delete the other story but I was reading it and I thought it needed some super re-doing. So I decided to re-write it. This one will go into more detail and I'm practicing what a wise reviewer once told me, "show don't tell" so here it is! Hope you guys like and as always reviews are greatly appreciated.

Disclaimer-I do not own power Rangers at all in any shape or form.

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Kira sighed rolling over to face the clock on her nightstand after being woken up for the third time that night.

3:30 read the clock and she sighed leaving the warmness of her queen sized bed to tend to the noise maker.

Grumbling some Kira followed the trail of wails, down the short hallway of her small apartment to the room where the sleep breaking noise was coming from.

"Alright, alright, ¿que pasa? What's got you so railed up tonight huh?" she asked peeking in the crib to see her little bundle of joy laying in the crib wailing his eyes out; again for the evening.

She sighed picking him up and sitting in the rocking chair, trying to get him to go back to sleep. "What's gotten into you lately, you normally sleep through the whole night" she said to him while gently swaying the rocking chair back and forth but he kept at it.

Kira got up now, and peeked back into the crib to grab his favorite elephant toy. She didn't know why but one cuddle with this thing and he would fall right asleep. It was awkward but satisfied both him and her and that's the only reason she kept the ugly looking elephant around.

Upon coming in contact with the fuzzy elephant, the young baby calmed down and resorted to sniffles and sighs, while attempting to get back to sleep.

Kira however let go of a long cat yawn thinking of all the events that occurred today. She had a major test a school that she wasn't sure she passed, then she had to stop by the grocery store and go through the task of grocery shopping for her and the little one in her arms. She had to go to work which she always hated because her boss was the most complicated man to work with. Then after work Mesegog decided to throw one of his monsters into the city and therefore she spent her night battle some sort of evil fish monster along with her teammates. Then when she finally reached home tired and exhausted she had to finish her homework and tend to the wailing baby for the third time this night.

Sometimes Kira hated living this way. She just turned 18 a month ago and yet she lived on her own with a baby on the house. 18 year olds weren't supposed to be doing this; 18 year old were supposed to be preparing for college and dating and become independent and all that good young adult stuff.

But instead Kira was stuck living on her own; on her own after her parents, her own flesh and blood kicked her out of the house. She wasn't surprised though, her parents were not the brightest of people. If they were they would have realized their drinking problem ages ago and done something about it but they didn't and one night after coming home from doing God knows what, they were again drunk and it came across their minds to just kick their daughter out of their home.

Kira didn't put up a fight like she normally did with her parents but instead just decided to leave. She hated when they drank and she was sick and tired of them chastising her and using her for their dirty work and all of the above. She was basically glad to leave and voluntarily packed up her things and left.

She stayed at her friends house for a couple of nights with no explanation as to why she was kicked out in the first place and soon enough Kira was able to find an apartment. Although seventeen at the time, she was able to wing her way into an apartment since she personally knew the apartment building owner.

So she moved in. And no more than 2 weeks of settling her self in, the new member of her household arrived.

Austin Elijah Ford.

He was one of those babies that was left in a basket by an anonymous source with a note attached to his little blanket that read, "Please take good care of him".

Until the day that Austin arrived Kira had no idea that people did such things, she thought it was only in the movies.

But just as she was about to send him to the adoption agency, Kira stopped herself. She began to worry about what kind of parents he'd get, or what the kids would treat him like. What if he wound up getting parents just like hers? She couldn't let that happen, she had to keep him.

Or at least that was the story se kept telling herself the first couple of weeks of him staying with her. Truth was she actually felt connected to the baby. Like it was her duty to take care of him. Her destiny, her mission, her something. She didn't know but she knew that if she let him go she'd fell empty. She didn't question it, she just did it, like her ranger duty. Some message or sign, or pathway told her that she must look after this baby and she did. And when she finally turned 18, she went to the adoption agency and adopted him as her own, all the while telling no one of her little secret.

Austin, like her ranger duty was her little secret and he'd stay that way. Other than her parents (who found out and claimed they didn't care) and his babysitter, nobody knew about Austin. Not her teammates, not Haley, not even Dr. Oliver. Nobody knew about him and nobody was going to know about him. She couldn't take the stress of people knowing and treating her different or rumors floating around school, or worse Dr. Oliver and Haley trying to con her out of "making a huge mistake". It was just too much to handle at the moment and she didn't need it. She knew was she was doing and that's all there is to it. Nobody was going to change her mind.

Kira looked back down at the baby and smiled as he was back to his peaceful sleeping stage. She carefully got out of the rocking chair and set him back into the crib along with the ugly elephant. "Good night Austin" she said before heading back to her own room for a good nights rest.

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The next morning, Kira at her table that was shared with Trent and was beginning to doze off again in another one of her teacher/mentors science lectures. This unit was human science and currently he was talking about the 10 systems of the body. She didn't find this to be boring but she was so darn tired she couldn't keep her head up.

Trent nudged her again trying to keep her awake and out of trouble and at this movement Kira sat upright, gazing at the teacher as if she was paying attention.

"Are you ok?" Trent whispered.

"Ya why?" she whispered back.

"Because you keep falling asleep over there, what's up?" he asked.

"Nothing don't worry about it" she said focusing back on her teacher's lecture.

Unfortunately for her though, 10 more minutes back into the lecture and she was dozing off again. And this time, Trent couldn't save her because Tommy caught her and Trent just couldn't nudge in time.

"So in conclusion the Respiratory system goes through Respiration which is what, Kira?" he asked emphasizing on Kira.

Upon hearing her name, Kira snapped her head up and looked up at her teacher unsure of what the question was. She didn't want to embarrass herself and have the whole class laugh at her so she remained silent and Tommy took the hint moving on to the next person.

"Can some one help her out please?" he asked and a couple of students raised their hands. "Leila" Tommy called on one of the grade 9 honor students who of course had to give a perfect answer.

"The process in which we exchange gases with our environment Dr. Oliver." She said with a smile.

"Thank you Leila"

RING RING RING

"Oh thank goodness saved by the bell." Kira thought packing up her things as well as the other students did ready to move on to the next class.

"Don't forget class, homework is section 9-2 and 9-3 reviews, write out the questions and answers." He said as the class groaned while filing out.

"Kira could I talk to you for a minute" he said to the teen who was packing up her things rather slowly. A routine habit for her, Conner, Ethan and Trent only because their teacher often called them back after class.

"OOOO, Kira's in trouble" Conner teased and she only glared at him.

"Guys, I only need to talk to Kira today so please head to your next class" Tommy said.

"Well jeez Dr. O, if you don't want us around all you have to say so" Conner said pretending to sound offended.

"Bye you three" Tommy said and the three boys left chuckling out the door.

As soon as they left Kira turned to face her teacher. "You needed something Dr O?" she asked fiddling with a little beanie baby power ranger doll on his desk. Funny story where that thing came from. Last Christmas the team was actually surprised to see little power ranger toys and such on the market and they all agreed that the fandom was getting out of hand. But when Christmas rolled around Ethan decided to give one to his teacher as a gag gift and eventually Tommy wound up collecting the whole team and displaying them on his desk.

"Kira are you alright?" he asked.

Kira couldn't help but roll her eyes. This became a constant question with him now a days when she had to work long nights. Normally when she was dozing off in class he pulled her back after or talked to her later about it. She could understand his concern, after all she was supposed to be fully awake and having undiverted attention during class but the whole thing just seemed to get annoying. Shouldn't he get the point by now, when she had to work long nights, which was usually when there was a monster attack, she was tired the next morning. Why keep asking if she was ok?

"I'm fine Dr. O" she replied dryly. "And don't ask me if I'm sure, I'm positive" she added quickly knowing his next question.

Tommy sighed. "I'm sorry Kira it's just that your always dozing off in class or after school at training or at Haley's cyberspace or where ever. Aren't you getting enough sleep at night?" he asked.

"No" she sarcastically thought although it was true. "I'm fine, just overly tired, I had loads of homework last night." She said telling the partial truth.

"Kira you always have loads of homework, that's the same excuse you use every time I ask you about this." He said.

"Maybe I'm just a studyholic" she replied.

"Kira"

"Dr. O, I'm fine, stop worrying, sheesh, you know you cause your own gray hairs. Don't stress about it. Now I gotta go, I'm going to be late for my next class." She said before exiting and not giving her teacher a chance to reply.

Tommy only sighed looking at the little mirror also placed on his desk. "I do not have gray hairs" he said to himself briefly checking his short locks for any signs of grey.

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Ok that's the first revised chapter! Review and tell me what you think!