Alright, so I'm pretty sure this is just going to be a oneshot fic. If I get enough interest I might continue it, but the point was really just to get it out of my head so I could continue with my other stories.

I've been watching PR:SPD and I love the characters, well most of them. I'm not a huge fan of either Z or Jack... so I just had to get this out.

"Sky?" the blue ranger looked up as Syd poked her head into the main control room. Rather than answering her, the tall brunette just grunted. "Nice to see you too."

"What are you doing here Sydney?"

"I thought you could use some company." The blonde replied settling herself on one of the surprisingly comfortable control room chairs.

"I'm on duty."

The pink clad girl shrugged "So?"

"So," Sky answered, checking the computers monitoring the city "I won't have time to entertain you. Why don't you go get some sleep? You'll need energy for training tomorrow."

"Ah, but see, I'm here to entertain you. I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep anyway, Z snores louder than Bridge does, if you can imagine that. Plus, you don't hang out with me anymore Sky…"

The blue ranger almost caved when Syd started pouting. Almost. "Syd-"

"I'm just worried about you. Bridge and I both are."

"Syd-"

"And I miss you- hanging out with you." Syd corrected herself hastily "I miss hanging out with you. You and Bridge are my best friends-"

"Sydney."

"Yeah?" She looked up at the older ranger, relieved that he had cut off her rambling.

"Stay."

"Okay." Sydney flashed Sky her million-dollar smile, which caused the usually cold and stoic ranger to melt a little inside. But just a little. "So what do you want to talk about?"

Sky just stared at her "Talk about?"

"Oh," Syd snapped her fingers and grinned slyly at her friend "I know… Okay, so I was hanging out with Bridge, when he had to go to the bathroom. So, I'm just sitting in your room, minding my own business, when the phone rings…" Sky started to get an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach as Syd continued her story. "So I answer the phone and it's some girl. At first I figure it's a wrong number, right? Cause if you had a girlfriend or something you would have told us, especially since Bridge and I are your best friends, and it wasn't. It was Regan. Your sister. How come you never told me you have a sister?"

"I-"

"Cause usually that's something best friends know about each other…"

"I-"

"You-"

"Sydney! Listen to me." Sydney stopped talking when Sky snapped at her. He reached over to grab her hand, but stopped when he saw the tears in her eyes. "Regan goes to boarding school in Switzerland."

"So that's a reason not to tell us about her?"

"When my parents died I did everything I possibly could to follow in my father's footsteps. My sister couldn't stand the thought of me becoming a ranger and literally following my father's footsteps so she left. We don't really talk, just on special occasions and stuff. It's too painful, for both of us." Sydney was about to speak again when Sky's watch beeped. "Shift's over. I'll see you tomorrow at training."

"Sky!" Sydney's voice followed the brunette down the hallway, but he didn't turn at the sound of her apologetic voice. "Sky! Why was yesterday a special occasion?"

Sky did turn when she asked the question "It was the anniversary of their death."

Except for training and actual rangering Sky managed to avoid Sydney for the rest of the week. It wasn't too difficult a task though, as Sydney was avoiding him as well.

Bridge was starting to worry about his two best friends, while he was sure Z and Jack didn't really notice a change in Sky he definitely could. He didn't even need to take off his protective gloves to feel the negative emotions rolling off his friend in waves. Sydney was obvious to all the rangers though and it was disconcerting to see the normally cheerful, perky blonde brooding.

It wasn't just the worrying that was affecting Bridge though. The green ranger was starting to feel the curse part of his 'psychic gift'. All the negative and painful feelings were starting to take their toll on him physically. Sky was keeping him up at night, all night, with his latent pain and Syd was taking her aggression out on him on the training mats.

After a particularly rough training session it was finally Z who called the more experienced cadets on their behavior. "What is wrong with you guys?" the youngest of the B squad demanded as she pulled a battered Bridge up from the mats.

"What are you talking about?" Sydney huffed, glaring at her roommate.

"What am I talking about?" the Hispanic girl was practically screaming in the pink ranger's face. "I'm talking about this!" She gestured towards Bridge "Look at what you two are doing to him!"

"I'm not doing anything to him." Sky denied stiffly, although he was sure he had something to do with his friend's worn appearance.

"You sure as hell are!"

The red ranger nodded his agreement and, in an unusual moment of insight, set a hand on Bridge's shoulder "You're broadcasting your feelings like a freaking satellite, man. Even I can feel it."

Sky looked at the green ranger, who just closed his eyes and turned his head rather than start another conflict. "And me?" Sydney asked quietly.

"Were you not just there for the particularly brutal beat down you just gave him?" Z asked in disbelief.

Sydney hung her head shamefully. "Bridge-"

"Just save it for now, Princess, I'm taking him to the infirmary. When you and blue boy figure out your problems come talk to the rest of us."

Sydney and Sky just watched as the yellow and red rangers led Bridge away. "I can't believe she called me Princess." Sydney said to herself quietly. "She knows how much I hate that."

Sky snorted "Typical."

"What?" Sydney asked heatedly.

"I said it was typical. Typical of you, an actual princess who gets everything her little heart desires, to worry more about getting called a name than her friend, who's on his way to the infirmary."

"You arrogant… egotistical… son of a bitch!" each insult was punctuated with a punch in the stomach.

Sky, surprised, began blocking her flurry of punches. "Sydney! What the hell are you-"?

"I can't believe you!" She spat, feigning a punch to his head only to roundhouse kick him in the side. "Here I am, all ready to spill all my feelings to you when your mysterious sister calls-" Sky grabbed her wrist and tried to twist it behind her back, only for Sydney to slip from his grasp and flip over his shoulder. She snap kicked him in the back before he could recover from his surprise.

"Feelings?"

Sydney tried to foot sweep him, to take his mind off her slip of the tongue "And then after I make a complete idiot of myself you start ignoring me… What am I… supposed… to think?"

Sky backed away as she began punching at him again. Finally, sick of being attacked, Sky swept her feet from under her and pinned her to the mats. "Sydney, what are you talking about?" Without thinking Sydney pulled his head down to hers and kissed him fiercely. When lack of oxygen became a problem Syd rolled Sky's heavy body off of her own and ran out of the room and towards the infirmary.

This time it was the blue ranger who watched as his teammate ran away.

When Sydney entered Bridge's room Z stood up from his bedside, ready to do battle again. "What are you doing here?" Z's voice was cold as ice and even Sydney's tears didn't phase her.

"Get out." Z did flinch at Syd's tone of voice. And she was really surprised when the pink ranger grabbed her and physically removed her from the room.

Bridge grinned tiredly from his hospital bed. "There's my Syd."

Sydney smiled tearfully and lay down in the bed next to him. She sniffed loudly and cuddled against her best friend when he wrapped his arms around her. "Bridge, I'm so sorry."

"Syd, it's okay…"

"No," she shook her head violently "It's not." The green ranger tried to pull away as Syd started taking off one of his gloves.

"Sydney-" his tone held more desperation than warning.

"Bridge, I want you to know."

"Syd I don't know-" he was cut off as she pulled the glove all the way off and gently touched his hand to her cheek. He was overwhelmed with her feelings: Anger. Confusion. Love. Friendship. Regret. "Those weren't all about me were they?"

Syd shook her head again and wished desperately that the tears would stop coming. "No."

"Sky."

Syd nodded. "I kissed him."

"What?" Bridge was floored.

"I kissed him."

"When?"

"A couple minutes ago. He was making me so mad and we were fighting… and I just kissed him."

"Syd-"

"I'm really confused." Bridge hugged his friend tightly when he heard how small her voice was. "I'm sorry I took my frustration out on you. I love you. You're my best friend."

"You're my best friend too, Syd."

"I was kicking Sky's ass." The blonde stated after a few moments silence.

Bridge laughed weakly as sleep started to take over the two of them. "I don't doubt it."

"What's going on with you and Z?"

The green ranger sat up, suddenly wide awake. "What?"

"Come on Bridge… It's pretty obvious you guys like each other."

The conversation stopped suddenly when it's main subject entered the room. "Am I interrupting?" She asked nonchalantly, but after Sydney's comment Bridge tried to focus on the younger girl's emotions. Jealousy.

"Me and Bridge?" Sydney laughed "Please. I love him, but he's more like my little brother than anything." She turned to the bewildered green ranger, kissed his forehead, and winked knowingly at him "I'll be back to see you later."

Bridge nodded blankly and watched Z as she came forward to sit on the edge of his bed.

Sydney shook her head and chuckled at the two younger rangers. They were more obvious than she was.

Syd was sitting on her bed, clutching Peanuts her stuffed elephant, and staring blankly at the wall when a very confused Sky entered.

After Sydney had left him earlier- after the kiss- he had gone back to training. It's what he did best and it helped clear his mind, but this time even after pushing himself to the edge of exhaustion he didn't have any answers.

As she hadn't noticed him yet Sky stood in the doorway, just watching her. She was beautiful, with her golden blonde hair and cornflower blue eyes, but that wasn't all. It was the way she smiled at him, the way she said his name, the way she could make him laugh even when he was in his darkest moods, the way she could convince him to do something he would never do on his own… Sky shook his head at his own stupidity. Why had he never noticed he was in love with his best friend before?

"Are you just going to stand there," she asked, still staring at the wall "or are you going to come in?"

The usually confident blue ranger hesitantly stepped into Sydney and Z's room. "Syd?"

"If you're going to say it was a mistake, don't bother. I can't take it back, Sky, and if I could I wouldn't want to."

"Syd-"

"Sometimes you make me so mad, Schuyler Tate!" She shouted, throwing Peanuts onto her bed violently. Sky winced at the use of his full name, the only people to ever call him that had been his parents and once in awhile his sister.

"Syd-"

"How long have we known each other?" She demanded.

"A year and a half," he answered "but Syd-"

"A year and a half!" She threw her hands up in the air "And you haven't noticed in all that time how I've been pining for you?"

"Sydney-"

But she wasn't in the mood to listen to him. Sky watched half amused half frustrated, as she started pacing back and forth. "I just, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about your sister and yelling at you and about your parents… I've just been in love with you so long that it hurt like hell when I realized that I hardly know anything about you. I-"

"Sydney." She finally stopped rambling when he pulled her roughly against himself and kissed her just as passionately as she had kissed him earlier.

"Whoa."

"Yeah." Sky leaned down and rested his forehead against hers. "So, you're in love with me?"

"I-"

"No going back." He reminded her, tightening the arms he had wrapped about her waist.

She sighed. "Yeah."

"Good." He leaned down and kissed her again. Sweetly this time.

She drew away frowning, "Good?"

Sky smiled at her. Genuinely. It was something she'd never really seen before. And it was certainly never something she'd caused. "Good." He repeated. "Cause I'm pretty sure I love you too."

"You?" The blonde asked incredulously "Love me?"

Sky nodded "I'm sorry it took me this long to figure it out."

Sydney laughed and drew him down to her "At least you do did." She kissed him again. "I had to practically throw Z in Bridge's face."

"Z and Bridge?" Sky asked, shocked.

Sydney rolled her eyes and kissed him again. "Mmmhmm…" The two were so lost in each other that they didn't notice when the door slid open.

"Whoa!" Jack, Z, and a now slightly better Bridge stood in the doorway.

Syd groaned and buried her blushing face in Sky's chest. While the blue ranger cleared his throat and glared at the others. "Can we help you?"

"Bad timing." Z whispered in Bridge's ear. It was only then that Sky realized that the two were holding hands. The brunette raised a questioning eyebrow at the green ranger, who blushed in response.

"We were just coming to get Syd. We thought she might know where you were…"

"Cruger wants to see us."

The five B squad rangers stood at attention in front of Commander Cruger. The extraterrestrial couldn't help but notice the close proximity of the blue and pink rangers and struggled to hide his grin of approval. "I have someone I'd like to introduce you to. This," the doors slid open and revealed a dramatically posed figure clad in white and blue spandex armor. "Is the Omega Ranger."