They were kind, soft, innocent and naive in a way, and beautiful.

That was my first impression of her, brief as it was. That she was someone to be looked after and taken care of but boy was I wrong about that. I soon learned that behind those eyes was a strength and passion that I didn't see the first time I looked. She may have looked soft, but there is steel running through Kendrix that not a lot of people choose to see. They saw the glasses, the science department uniform and classed her as a geek.

They didn't see the compassion, the depth of life in her soul. They never knew the warmth she brought to her friend's lives by just being herself. Her love of life and of science; her insatiable quest to know it all, endeared her to me. Her sweet nature and natural honesty combined with her naivety gave her such strength that I envied her sometimes. Even in the midst of the chaos that our lives had turned into by becoming Power Rangers, she always found time to comfort others.

It was her I turned to when I wanted to talk about Mike and how much I missed my big brother. It was to her that I turned when I woke up screaming in the middle of the night with nightmares. It was her that found me crying alone in the park one afternoon and just held me, soothing away my tears for my brother. She even shared some of the stories she had about him with me, times when he had become her surrogate big brother and I realised that she missed him as much as I did. And I think it did us both good to talk about him, it helped us with our grief at his loss. It made the joy I felt at Mike's return even greater as I was able to share it with someone that understood what I was feeling.

The one thing I've noticed about all of us, and by all of us I mean us male Rangers, is that for some reason, we've all become like over protective big brothers of her. But Kendrix will only let us molly coddle her so much before she pulls us up short. As I said, there's steel in that petite frame of hers.

But nothing prepared me for what happened. Not the loss and return of Mike. Not the excitement of meeting the Astro Rangers that saved the Earth and the whole Universe come to think of it. None of that prepared me for the hole that appeared in my heart when she was gone from my life. One minute she was there, fighting along side Cassie, fighting to save us all from the Pink Psycho Ranger and then next, she was gone.

Now it was Mike's turn to provide me comfort.

He was the one that I turned to in those dark few days before Karone's arrival. It was him that I poured my heart and my soul out to. About how much I had come to love the quiet, unassuming Pink Ranger. How much she had meant to me. And he in turn poured his heart out as well, how he hadn't even had a chance to say goodbye. At least I had that little comfort, comfort denied my brother. Then Karone arrived and Kendrix's spirit chose her as a replacement, to carry on where she left off. We got along alright, she became a good friend, but she couldn't replace Kendrix in my heart, nothing did. Late at night I would go and sit in the park and talk to her spirit. Tell her spirit that I knew was watching over me what was happening with me, and the others. Some nights Mike joined me, other nights he left me to it. He knew it was my way of keeping her alive in my heart.

And then came that awful final battle. I have never been so scared, yet so determined to win in my entire life. This is what Kendrix died for, what she fought for and I was not going to let her down, no way in hell was I. I think Mike was the only one that realised that I did it all for her.

Everything I did as a Ranger, everything, I did in her honour, her memory. I tried to do everything how I think she would have wanted me to do. And it worked to. We won the war but there were a lot of losses, including the total destruction of Terra Venture. But then, we got the surprise of our lives. When we returned the Quasar Sabres to their sacred rock, the whole of Miranoi was restored and then my heart got its fondest and deepest wish.

Kendrix was back.

That face I knew so well. The smile that lit super novas in my heart. And those eyes, those eyes that cut straight through me. Kendrix was back in my life and I couldn't be happier. There was a huge celebration that night and everyone rejoiced. The people of Miranoi, the people of Terra Venture, everyone celebrated a joyful conclusion to a long, hard journey.

And so tonight is the night I am going to tell her how I feel about her. How much I love her and how much I missed her. And nothing's going to stop me because when I saw her today for the first time, her eyes were the first things that I saw. And when I saw them again my heart leapt into my throat and as I held her tight in my arms I knew that I would never let her go again.

Her eyes led straight to her soul and I wanted to drown in them. And tonight I plan to do just that for the rest of my life if she'll let me. And somehow, somehow I know she will.