Notes: Well, I love these little theme challenges so much that I came up with a list of my own challenges, heh. There are ten, so enjoy them, OK? I'd love some feedback, so press the little button and leave me a review, if you please.
Underneath It All: Sky and Syd
Disclaimer: How doest thou not know this already?
Challenge: Watch Over Me
Timeframe: During Walls when Sky and Syd were guarding the diamonds
He needed someone, for God's sake. He needed someone to talk to and vent to and someone to lean on. He needed someone to comfort him and hug him. That someone might as well be her.
And so she kept on at her job, resolute in her self-imposed mission. She'd get him to relax a bit, to smile and laugh. And that was why she'd volunteered her services to Jack, under the pretense of guarding the diamonds.
Syd knew that to the others she came off as a ditz; it was something of a tradition for the pink ranger to be a damsel in distress. She knew she could be petty sometimes, and she knew that she whined a bit more than was really necessary. But Syd wasn't the pink fairy tale princess everyone thought she was. She was more than that, much much more than that.
He told her everything, eventually, if she coaxed him to it properly. And so she tossed a diamond at him gently, knowing that it would irritate him. She continued throwing diamonds at him, getting him so annoyed with the chucking of reflexive rocks and the mocking tone she imitated him with that he stomped over and dumped the contents of his water bottle over the top of her head.
She shrieked indignantly and then told him he looked better with the smile on his face, which brought the scowl back. But then she perched next to him and all of his troubles came tumbling out one at a time. She listened carefully, mewing offerings of sympathy to her blue ranger and then Jack called on the morpher, ending the chat.
But then as they got into the jeep, Sky on the driver's side and Syd on the passenger, he smiled again and thanked her for always looking out for him.