the power diaries book 2 sacrifice

the more things change

Caroline had been with Carlos for a year now their daughter ariana was six months old now born on the ship in her father's quarters with the help of tj 's fiance emily they had lost three rangers during her time on the ship dustin was the closest to her she had been there the night he died and so were her best friend tori who was also dustin 's teammate the rangers considered caroline one of their own now jason and his wife Trini had figured out that kim hart was the one who ended dustin 's life they didn't know why she did it other than she wanted tommy for herself once more tommy had been falling in love with karone corbett who had been the villian astromena before becoming good karone was unware that she had been a target to kim and the former pink ranger now dubbed the ranger slayer had fled the ship and the team was about to find out tommy had known but he wasn't scared he had a way to make sure karone and her son lj were safe karone had her own plans in mind just then a girl with blonde hair teleported into the bridge she said her name was Morgan and kendrix was her mother billy was her father morgan said she was created the night kendrix had shared with billy before he married Delphine and before kendrix met and became engaged to mike she was also jade's mother mike had no idea kendrix had known billy much less had sex with him Maya saw the girl and started to cry kendrix 's death had hit her worse than the others they were best friends she had been there the night morgan was born morgan had been in love with dustin before his ranger days morgan had no idea he was gone maya asked morgan to come with her to the quarter she needed to talk to her alone morgan agreed maya was her godmother and her mother's best friend maya knew she had to tell her about dustin she asked morgan how are you morgan said fine aunt maya maya said i have some thing to tell you and I know it will hurt morgan asked is it dad maya said no billy is fine and so is mike its dustin im sorry but he is gone sweetie morgan started to cry she couldn't believe the father of her child was dead she asked Maya was it in battle maya said no only leo died in battle dustin was killed on the ship a few days ago morgan started to sob maya hugged her god daughter and cried with her she felt dustin 's loss as a yellow ranger and as his friend she danced with him at Caroline and carlos' wedding just last year she told morgan the story about how she and dustin tangoed everyone thought it was funny maya even laughed thinking about it now dustin liked to be the life of the party she agreed with kat the world was darker now without dustin being in it here was the mother of his child her goddaughter and they were mourning someone who was too young to die in the first place she then showed morgan the plaque set up for dustin next to her mother and leo it felt weird to maya her two best friends and someone who was like a little brother to her Morgan asked can I go see dad maya said sure morgan needed her father right now and billy was nurturing he could be a good father to her that was what she needed her dad right now billy said come in Morgan said I know I didn't grow up with you but mom knew what danger you were always in she died for it billy said I loved your mother and if I had known about you I would have been there for you everyday I met your mom in college she had you before she became a ranger herself her death broke me morgan I shut my wife out tommy and my team I reached out to Maya and that is when she told me about you you were with kendrix 's parents and they loved you maya told me how you loved the blue rangers the most unaware your father is one your mom and I were right but at the wrong time morgan she even gave you my last name Morgan said she never put you down she spoke highly of you she said you were a fellow ranger but on separate teams I was in love dad I met dustin and we had a daughter just like you and mom had me it came full circle billy said I loved your mom so much it destroyed me when tommy told me she was killed in battle when leo died it reminded me of her leo left behind a child too lj he is 7 months old now morgan said I know what he is going through losing my mom before my second birthday now dustin is gone too billy embraced his daughter he asked could we get to know each other morgan said sure I think jade needs to be around family dustin 's team is here and my dad is here billy said I'm sorry I wasn't much of a father to you morgan said I forgive you dad mom wouldn't want me to be mad with you forever