The Broken Heart
Summary: Greg Sanders a seasoned CSI begins teaching at SPD Academy after the death of his wife amd what's up with Dr. Manx?
Disclaimer: I do not own Greg Sanders or Power Rangers unfortunately.
It had been a little over a year after the death of his wife yet still his memory of her seemed to stretch on before him. He didn't think that he would ever forget her, and that he was thankful for. Her life had been taken prematurely in his mind. She was so beautiful and she loved her job. He frowned. It was the job that killed her.
At first he was so quick to blame the person who pulled the trigger, and he was relieved when Nick put the bastard behind bars, but, he knew just as she did that the job had hazards. Heck, it was a lesson they all learned first hand when Nick was nabbed and buried alive twenty years prior. Nick, bless him, only wanted what was best for everyone. He was always that way, in fact it was he who stayed strong for Greg's sake.
Professor Greg Sanders sighed as he glanced up at the monstrosity of a building that was the SPD Delta Base. It was a far stretch from what he was used to back at the Las Vegas crime lab that he had called home for the past twenty five years. But Nick was right, he was ready for a change and if that meant teaching cadets a thing or too, he wasn't complaining. It's exactly what his wife would have wanted him to do. He sighed again and pushed through the doors and headed toward the front counter.
"Can I help you, sir?" A voice said startling him out of his jumbled thoughts.
Greg nodded, "I'm Professor Sanders, I'm here to see Commander Cruger."
"Oh, he's in the command center right now. You can take the escalator up to the third floor someone will show you were to go if you ask."
"Right," He said as he headed for the escalator.
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Kat Manx let out a soft yowl for what seemed like the fiftieth time that day. Nothing seemed to be going right for her. The command center was now in shambles due in part to one of Boom's many experiments and she had to take the blame for it. She shook her head. Nothing was worse than having a big, blue, dog of a commander growling in your face. She meant that respectfully of course, after all, Commander Cruger was a big, blue dog. But, she had to admit that in all of her 148 Earth years, she had yet to meet anyone who was more stubborn than her commander.
They had been friends for years, but even that wasn't enough to get him to lighten up. Doesn't he know that it's more stressful to work with his constant nagging? It was definitely not good for her heart that was for sure. She supposed that he had every right to be the way he was, after all, he too had his fair share of stress, and a good quarter of it came from her.
Just last year, she had fallen extremely ill, leaving Boom in charge of her duties. She laughed to herself as she remembered waking up one day to a disgruntled Doggie leaning over her begging for her to recover. She wasn't out of it so much that she didn't notice the silver hairs growing at the base of his ears either.
He was trying to be humorous to cheer her up, she knew that, but she also knew that he was being dead serious. She could sense just how scared he was for her. She had a failing heart, and they had been waiting for weeks for a transplant. She knew that she didn't have much of a chance for survival, even if she did get a new heart, because it was impossible to find an exact match for her. They were going to rely on genetic re-sequencing to change the genetic code of a human heart so that she would have a better chance of not rejecting it. The chance was one and a million and with her team by her side, she took it and she survived.
She was happy with the outcome, but sad that it had to come at a price. Someone had lost their life in order for her to live. Someone who more than likely had a family and friends who loved them. She wished that she could thank them in person, but all she was allowed to do was write them a letter.
Turning the corner, she let out another yowl, this one not so soft as the others. Apparently she was so deep in thought she forgot to watch where she was going, and ran head first into a tall human male causing her to land on her hindquarters before she could catch herself.
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'The place is gigantic that much is true,' Greg though to himself as he took it all in. He wasn't sure, but he was pretty certain that it could house a small town. He let out a low whistle and commented to himself about the architecture. He was positive that he hadn't seen anything remotely like it before. What it lacked in looks on the outside definitely was made up in the bowels of the building.
His eye caught three cadets talking amongst themselves and he decided that it was about time he found the command center. He was about to walk over to them when a force hit him from behind almost knocking him over. Looking back he noticed a woman staring up at him from the ground.
"Oh," he said as if to remember his manners and he offered her a hand. "I'm sorry, I was in your way."
She took his hand, "No, it's okay. I wasn't watching where I was going. I'm Dr. Katherine Manx, but you can call me Kat."
Greg cracked a smile at the irony of her name. 'Manx is a type of cat, and she looks like a cat so they call her Kat', he rambled in his head. "They have the name Katherine where you're from?"
Kat gave him a small smile that showed him a hint of her fangs. "Apparently they do."
"I'm Professor Sanders, but you can call me Greg." he said as he let go of her hand. "I was looking for the command center when you bumped into me. I'm supposed to meet Commander Cruger."
"Oh," she said. "It's right this way, if you'll follow me it's not far."
Greg obliged noticing with interest that her right ear twitched when he said the commander's name. They walked in silence for about a minute when she spoke up again.
"You may think this is weird, but when you helped me up, your touch felt familiar somehow. Have we met before?"
Greg gave her a toothy grin. "No, I would have remembered." He didn't however say that he had felt it too. He also noticed that he had smiled in her presence, twice, and he just met her. A feat he wasn't able to accomplish in over a year. Kat intrigued him, that much was for certain. There was just something about her that seemed to reach out to him and he was going to find out what it was if it was the last thing he did.
