At First Sight: Sky and Syd

Written for the Ars Amatoria Ranger Romance Themes Challenge Volume II. OK, I couldn't stay away, and now that I have nothing else to work on until Operation Overdrive…I am back to the grindstone for my favorite ranger couple.

Disclaimer: I keep telling you…

Challenge: History

Timeframe: Post Endings

As it happened, Sydney was on night watch the night after they captured Gruumm. The Command Centre had never been so boring before. She had read all her fan mail, filed her nails, and counted all the buttons the control panel had to offer. She almost wished Gruumm would get out of his containment card just so she'd have something to do.

Absentmindedly, Syd pulled up an old video file. While the video loaded, Syd read the title. Time for Lightspeed, Kat had named it.

Then it clicked. Pulling out her morpher, the pink ranger's heart was beating twice its normal speed in her excitement. Her parents had been with Lightspeed and his parents with Time Force. And now that he was red, there were three generations of pink and red rangers who ended up married, if Syd got her way.

"Hey Sky, get to the Command Centre. I have something to show you," Syd ordered.

He came bursting in less than two minutes later. "Where's the emergency?" he demanded.

"I didn't say anything about an emergency," Syd replied. "Look what I found, Sky."

She pointed to the now fully loaded video. Comprehension dawned on Sky's face, and then he dragged two stools over for them. "We should watch it," he said by way of explanation.

The computer screen glowed in front of their faces as the red and pink rangers watched their parents fight one of Lightspeed's old enemies, Vypra. Admiration was carved onto Sky's face as he watched his father. Clearly he was doubting whether if he could ever live up to his expectations.

"You'll be great."

Sky chose not to respond. He turned the computer off, propped his elbows up on the control panel, and rested his chin in his hands. He looked distraught.

"I promise."

"You think I can do it?"

"It's in your blood. It's in my blood, and the others' too. Being rangers is our history, Sky, and it's our futures as well. Because of that, you'll be great."

"Watch some more of our history with me?" he offered.

"I would love to," Syd answered.

And so she watched the past unfold with the man she'd spend her future with.