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Of Kidnappings and Love
By DarkHonda aka Tal

Prologue

Kelsey Winslow, a yellow ranger, was rollerblading her way on Mariner Bay's promenade. More often than not, she missed the chance to do so, since ranger training took too much of her time, as well as fighting different demons in the forms of monster, or was it monsters in the form of demons? Whatever. The idea is that she was rarely seen skating, and today, she finally got the chance! Dana and Carter were off on a secret date, Joel tried to get Ms. Fairweather to come flying with him, Chad was underwater seeing Marina and Kelsey finally had the time for some near-extreme activity, which this time took the form of rollerblading. She didn't want to go sky diving in case she'd meet Joel nor snorkeling because of Chad and Marina, and couldn't go Rock Climbing in case she'll get stuck and then the Fire Fighters would call Carter. Not that there was any chance she'll get to such a hazardous situation, of course.

And so, humming a tune, she rollerbladed along the promenade, watching the sun setting while swiftly going through the piles of couples who thought walking on the promenade is romantic. Actually, they were making her think about the last time she had a date, hmm.. his name was Brooklyn or Brock or Barry or something. He had red hair and green eyes to go along with a tall body and working in a really important law firm and was boring as hell. She shouldn't have been surprised though, her grandmother fixed her up with him, she should've expected it. When will her grandmother accept the fact she doesn't want to be a sit-in-home wife and do the only-raise-the-kids thing? She wanted to be independent, free and completely in love. Too bad that isn't happening.

And then she bumped into someone and was about to fall over and do the entire show, scrape her knees, bang her head with the ground and not being able to get up since she was on wheels.

Fortunately she was caught by someone.

"Thanks, I'm really sorry," She said quickly, pulling herself up while using his arms, only then she turned to watch the person's face and froze; he had a beautiful complex and dirty blond hair that went with a pair of coal black eyes that had a glint in them, they sparkled. His mouth was curved into a half smile.

"I'm… really… erm.. sorry, for everything," she managed to mutter, he was making concentrating on her words a hard task. Once her eyes met his, she couldn't look away, her hands still holding his arms and his arms still on her shoulders, keeping her from falling.

And then she realized she was staring too long and staggered away, moving her hands away from him as fast as she could. She nearly fell again and he chuckled and grabbed her, lifting her up and balancing her before taking a step backwards.

"Er.. thanks." She muttered before diverting her gaze awkwardly behind him, the sea had the most awkward shade of colour blue. "How could I make it up to you?" She asked before she could regain control over herself. Her meaning sounded wrong, very wrong, but when she peeked into his eyes he just smiled innocently.

"Join me for ice cream? There's a great shop not too far from here," He said and she shivered lightly: his voice fitted his looks, low, a little sharp, she felt herself sighing involuntarily.

"Alright, so, who are you, again?" She asked exasperatedly and he smiled.

"I'm Ryan, and you would be?" He waited expectantly, smiling at her.

"Kelsey."


A/N: Well, this is something I've been working on in the last month, it's going to be RyanKelsey centric with mentioning of ChadMarina, CarterDana and JoelAngela. The entire war-against-the-bad-guys isn't a big chunk here, but don't worry, there will be action. The good stuff. Rating will change somewhere around chapter six, you'll see why. Have a good time reading, please, review! I'll appreciate it!