Sweet complication
By Shining Azure Angel
Summary: Will a past debacle cause some friction between two of the lightspeed gang?
Disclaimer: power ranger's lightspeed rescue or any personification of such is not owned in any part by me.
Author's note: My little fic takes place the same day as the end of Operation lightspeed.
Additional Author's note: I'd like to say I'm glad there are other C/D lovers out there. Also I love feedback but please no flames. I can handle words meant to help but I do not post harmful words so would appreciate not receiving them.I'm not saying I don't want constructive criticism, like If I did should add something or get rid of something else but…
Dedication: I'd like to say this is for Dana Grayson, who encouraged me to post this. Thanks Sydney.
Chapter 1 Pasts Return
Dana Mitchell sighed as the door to her quarters slid closed behind her. She was very glad to be home, back in the safety of her room and away from all of the insanity of the day. So much had happened today that her head was still reeling. Not only had the demons been released but she'd been made a power ranger. To think her, Dana Jennifer Mitchell was the pink lightspeed ranger. She knew her father had meant what he had said; he'd been training her since she was little for today. The only problem was Dana didn't know if she could do this.
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Man, Carter could not believe this, he was a power ranger? He was living under the bay? The girl he'd dreamt about for the last seven months was there, one of his fellow rangers. He didn't know what he wanted to do, jump up and down and shout for joy or shrivel into the ground. She was pretty, smart and totally out of his league. After she'd kissed him in the club, one he never went too on his own, or willingly he'd done some checking and found out she was a medic. She was a pretty one too, her shoulder length blonde hair much like spun gold, her blue eyes like a summer sky. He wondered what she'd thought of that kiss; he'd only kissed three girls and as he'd not been expecting that one he'd not been ready. Well since he'd not get another chance what did it matter? She probably thought he was a total Claude. It was the reason he stirred clear of women.
"Hey man you ok?" The voice had Carter turning to face the new green ranger; he was still in his cowboy get up minus his trademark hat.
"Yeah, fine why?"
"You had this gloom and doom look on your face. You forget we won?"
"One fight, not the war." Carter pointed out having no trouble switching topic. It was better to talk about their new job than their boss's pretty daughter.
"We will." Joel said picking up his hat off of the bed.
"Where you going?" Carter asked then and Joel shrugged.
"Pick up my gear. Can't wear the same clothes forever." Joel reminded him and was out of the room leaving Carter with the silent Asian man.
Chad Lee spent a lot of time studying people. Since they'd gotten back to the Aquabase he'd been watching his new roommate and had noted that Carter had more than this new situation on his mind. Chad wondered if he should ask but Carter seemed the type to work through things himself. That was why the new blue lightspeed ranger moved to
Leave as well.
Alone, Carter moved to sit on his bed. Yes he too had to pick up his things but he just didn't feel like doing anything. So much had happened and there was so much to think about. Maybe he should just dive in, find out about the kiss and see if this little complication was for better or worse.
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God, the blonde thought plopping down onto the bed, could things get any worse? After all not only had she become a ranger but too she'd found out that one of the hottest guys in Mariner Bay was also one of the team.
Dana didn't know Carter Grayson but she had a feeling he'd not be the type to forgive and forget. Not that she'd really done anything to him, after all the bet had just been that she had to kiss the next guy who came into the club. It was odd but
Fluffing her pillow Dana could barely remember what had persuaded her to go with Angela to the place in the first place. True her scientist friend had been working on getting over some guy that had not liked a girl smarter than him but a dance club? In all truth, Dana had rarely ever seen Angela Fairweather drinking but it was still funny.
The knock on her door fairly had Dana jumping out of her skin as well as her thoughts. Frowning she got to her feet and called.
"It's carter!" Came a deep masculine voice and an involuntary shiver ran up her spine. What? Had her thoughts conjured the guy?
Lordy, what could she say to him? She'd not seen him for more than a few seconds since the night at the club and today had been so busy… What if he was mad? What if he wanted to know what she'd been thinking?
"Dana," Carter began uncertainly and she could only stare up at him her mind racing back over that morning's first impression of the man.
They'd arrived to find firefighters scrambling around an apartment fire and Dana's escorts stopped one of the firefighters and asked if they knew where Carter Grayson was.
Watching Dana got out of the limo, she looked at his once more. She glanced around and then the two agents in black pointed out the guy then where he balanced atop a ladder. She caught her breath, he was tall she'd seen that even before he'd entered the building and something had told her it was the guy she'd met, not just from his dossier but the confident way he moved.
Now though as he stood there on the other side of her doorway Dana saw nerves in his deep cerulean eyes. She felt it too and wondered what she should say.
"Carter I…" Her belly did a little flip flop when he started to speak at the same time as she had.
"Dana, I just wondered I have to go pick up my stuff and I think we should talk so want to come with me?" He was glad he'd not stuttered, she was so pretty and he always felt silly with pretty girls. Maybe it was because he was on a mission.
"Carter? I," Was she going to say no? A sudden feeling of dejection shot through him and he knew he had to do this, had to somehow do this.
"Dana if we're going to be working together we need to talk." He said, proud of how even his voice sounded. There wasn't even a hint of his nerves there.
"Fine." She knew that he was right of coarse, they did need to talk, to get this out in the open. Besides that, maybe it would be nice to spend some time with this guy.
TBC
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Ok chapter 1 up, what do you think? Should I go on? Any suggestions?