Something Worth Living for
By
SweetInsomia
Hello everyone thanks for dropping in! This is my first published story, I hope you like it, and if you don't like I'm open to suggestions.
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NewTech city has fallen silent, after Grumms defeat. For it's residents, things have returned to normal. No longer looking over their shoulders for signs of danger, no waiting on the rangers to take down the monster. Just going back to their normal lives, although on occasion the rangers do make an appearance. Like the citzens the rangers went back to their lives as well. Though the training has slowed down, giving them more time for their own lives.
Bridge Carson, newly made blue ranger sits in his room, reading a letter. The shaky, yet elegant, hand writing filling the whole page with its words, and several pages after that almost like a book. He reads the letter, again and again, soaking in all every last word. Forgetting about his roommate, who is disturbed by his silence, normally you can't get him to be this quite. His roommate, the red ranger knows Bridge gets these letters, about every two weeks, but doesn't know who they are from. The man in red, Sky Tate, also doesn't know of anyone who hand writes letters anymore. A knock sounds at the door; Sky knows who it probably is. Sky guesses its Bridge's girlfriend; never in a million years would he have thought that Bridge would have a girlfriend, first out of the two of them. After a few minutes, of Bridge not letting the guest in, Sky says the magic word.
"Open."
Elizabeth Delgado walks in the room, nods to Sky in thanks. She turns her attention to her boyfriend, who sits still on his bed reading the letter. Z looks at Bridge strangely; normally he would have greeted her by now. Sky decides to inform Z of what's going on.
"He gets those letters, every now and again. He is always like that when he gets one," Sky explains sitting down his, copy of the handbook. He stares at Bridge, wondering when he will snap out of it.
"Who are they from?" Z asks sitting on the edge of Bridge's bed. Bridge doesn't seem to take notice that she is even there, and that scares her a little. He is so enthralled by the letter that it leaves him vulnerable to the things he falls to notice.
"I don't know, he ever let's anyone else read them," Sky says sitting up on his bed. Z turns her body and looks down at the letter. She can clearly see the hand writing on the lined paper. Yet she can only making out a few words of the scrawl, before Bridge wakes up from his trance. He instantly folds up the letter, and looks around the room.
"When did you get here Z? I don't remember letting you in, though I could have done it without knowing. Like breathing everyone does that without knowing, because we would-" Bridge says starting his ramble, putting the letter in his jacket pocket.
"Bridge, Sky let me in," Z says cutting off the normal ramble. Bridge nods his head looking at her. "Who was the letter from, Bridge?" Z asks just being her curious-self.
"Oh the letter was from my...sister," Bridge says hesitantly not remebering if he had told them or not. Z looks at Sky both sharing confused looks, either knew that he had a sister.
"You have a sister?" Sky asks he can't remember Bridge ever mentioning that he had a sister before, nor has he seen her around here. Surely if she was here Bridge would have introduced her to them before now.
"Yeah, she is the best. Always smiling and laughing, no matter what," Bridge says again not starting a ramble, lost in this thoughts. His two teammates find this just weird, this isn't normal for Bridge. "It would be nice to visit her one day. Do you think we could go visit her as a team, Sky?" Bridge asks looking at Sky, almost pleading with green eyes. Being the leader of the team, if Sky didn't approve there would be no reason to ask Cruger. Sky thinks it over, would she be like Bridge, just the opposite, or similar? He decides the best way is to find out for himself.
"If Cruger approves," Sky says nodding his head, not seeing a problem with it. Sky looks back in forth between Bridge's ecstatic expression, and Z's electric shocked one. "Aren't you two supposed to be patrolling, about now?" Sky says standing up, looking over at the alarm clock.
"Come on Bridge, before he pulls rank on us," Z says pulling Bridge up, and towards the door. Bridge waves bye to Sky and follows Z out of the room. Sky walks to the Command Centre while, Z and Bridge walk to the vehicle bay. Sky gets to the Command Centre, the automatic doors open for him. Cruger notices Sky, and he quickly salutes his Commander.
"What can I do for you, Cadet Tate?" Cruger asks standing from his chair. It's not normal for him to see the rangers unless, there is a problem. They know their training schedule by now, and can train themselves.
"Commander, Bridge would like for the team to visit his sister," Sky says standing in front of the Commander. He hopes that the Commander will fill him in about Bridge's sister.
"And that is a problem, Cadet?" Cruger asks it's perfectly normal for Bridge, of all people, to want his sister to meet the team. He thought Bridge had introduced the team to her along time ago.
"No sir, only if you approve of the whole team leaving for the day, to visit her," Sky says know for a whole ranger squad to be gone for the day would be critical. Of course they could be reached, but it would still be awhile before they could get the job done.
"The whole team, you do realize that includes you, Cadet Tate," Cruger says knows Sky would only leave the base for assignments. He also knows that only time Sky leaves on the base is on anniversary of his dad's death, to visit both of his parents.
"Yes sir," Sky says nodding his head, still a little surprised that he hasn't met her before.
"Then I approve, you can go Saturday to see Bridge's sister. If I need you I will call," Cruger says glad that his rangers will get some time off.
"Thank you, Commander," Sky says saluting prepared to go tell Syd, about this revealed secret.
"Off the record Cadet," Cruger says stopping Sky from leaving. "Are you going because Bridge would want you there or is it a personal visit?" Sky is shocked, to say the least, by what Cruger is implying. Cruger had assumed that not only had Sky met Bridge's sister, but was also involved with her on a personal level.
"Both sir, Bridge is a very dear friend that makes this personal. I didn't even know Bridge had a sister tell just a few moments ago sir," Sky says quickly clearing the air, from the assumption how could he be involved with Bridge's sister if he has never met her.
"I see. Dismissed Cadet," Cruger says nodding his head and going back to sit in his chair. Sky walks out of the Command Centre and heads towards the Rec. room. He quick finds Syd reading a fashion magazine.
"Syd, did you know Bridge has a sister?" Sky says watching how quickly Syd's head snapped up.
"No, Bridge has a sister!" Syd says just like he had been, in shock. They have known him for so long, and didn't know he had a sister. Why did he feel the need to keep his relative a secret? Why did he have a secret sister? Was something so strange about her that she need to be keep hidden from them.
"Yes, we are going this Saturday to see her," Sky says sitting down on the couch beside her. He glances at the magazine article that Syd was reading, more lovely dovely stuff.
"What's her name?" Syd asks Sky shrugs his shoulders, Bridge didn't say. "So we are going to see her and we know nothing about her?"
"Pretty much, you know those hand written letters Bridge gets?" Sky asks Syd nods, curls a bouncing. "They're from her, he got one before him and Z went out on patrol."
"Does Bridge know, that we are going to see her," Syd asks crossing her arms with a pout on her face. She can't believe he didn't tell her, she could understand not telling Sky. Sky nods his head saying.
"He asked me before he went on patrol."
"Has he talked to Cruger?" Syd says picking up her magazine again, her eyes just skimming the words.
"I talked to Cruger and got it cleared," Sky says standing up to go make to his room.
"I thought you said he knew," Syd says looking up at Sky.
"It was his idea to go see her. He asked me if it was okay and I told him if Cruger approved," Sky says looking around the room, random cadets stopping to stare at the pair of rangers.
"Are you going to tell Bridge?" Syd asks standing up too, now having something to do.
"I thought I would let him find out on his own," Sky says walking from the room. Syd nods and follows Sky out. Syd stops at her door, and goes into her room, probably to pick out an outfit for Saturday. Sky heads back to his room, and puts on his gloves for a couple of rounds with the punching bag. He punches and she plans for most of the time that Bridge and Z spend on patrol.
Well everyone that's chapter one of Something Worth Living for. Thanks to xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx for all the help she has given to me. She is also a genius author so go check out her stories.