Blue & Evil: The Beginning

By: PernDragonrider

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Power Rangers. Just borrowing the characters for a little romance then returning them. No money being made; so don't sue.

Author's Notes: This contains SLASH! Relationship between two men and if you don't things like that please hit the back button and go no further. This plot bunny hid and bit before I could get rid of it. This is a prequel to my drabble entitled "Blue Meets Evil On The Beach!" Just one possible explanation for the tale of how Chad Lee and Ryan Mitchell might have became a couple. Special thanks, kudos, and bowing and scraping at CamFan4Ever's feet. Without her almost instant feedback, patience, and encouragement this tale would have never been written. Enjoy and please leave a review. Pern. Now onto the tale…

Chapter Four – Dark Clouds & Silver Linings

Chad worked hard with his team during the day; however every night at sunset he was always on a secluded portion of beach near the submerged Aqua Base. Dana, occasionally, would accompany Chad but would never sit by Chad; she would sit further up or down the beach as Chad crouched, sat, or lay on the beach watching the sunset.

About three weeks after becoming the Blue Lightspeed Rescue Power Ranger, Chad and Dana were walking toward the spot, the place where Chad and Ryan had promised each other that they'd always watch the sunset over Mariner Bay. Dana wasn't looking ahead, but at her companion and she smiled slightly as Chad's almond eyes opened in surprise and delight. She looked in the direction Chad was and saw only the silhouette of a tall, well built man standing and facing the bay. She stopped walking and watched as her friend and teammate raced toward the shadowed figure with a bright, happy smile of delight gracing his Asian features.

Chad skidded to a stop, but his delight faded instantly as the Red Lightspeed Ranger turned to look at Chad's headlong rush to his side. "What's up Chad?" Carter asked even as he eyes were actually looking over Chad's shoulder at Dana slowly walking up to both men. "Is there an attack or something going on?"

"No, sorry Carter." Chad said very dejectedly. "I thought you were someone else. I'll go on up the beach and leave you and Dana to enjoy the sunset together." Carter couldn't tell in the subdued lighting of the sun's dying rays; but he could have swore he saw tears appear in his teammates eyes.

"Chad, stay here." Dana said with a soft understanding smile for her now hurting teammate. "Carter and I will walk on down the beach together. There's a spot just up the way that's has a nice collection of rocks where we can sit without getting full of sand. Stay here and enjoy the sunset. This is your spot, my friend. We'll leave you to enjoy the glory of what looks to be a very gorgeous sunset."

As Carter and Dana walked further up the secluded beach Chad's thoughts were not on the budding relationship between his commander's daughter and his team leader, but on the one man he missed more than anything. "Where are you Ry? I haven't seen you for three weeks. You weren't at the apartment for my last days off and I'm miserable. I miss you. I need you. Where are you?"

While Chad sat in misery on the beach, Ryan was sneaking away from his father, Diabolico, and the other demons in the half-reality that were the remains of Queen Bansheera's temple. "Chad must be frantic." Ryan thought sadly. "If father hadn't called me back here for something I would have already made it to OUR spot on the beach. I can still make it, just after sunset, provided I can sneak away."

So lost in his thoughts of getting to Chad's side, Ryan didn't see Vipra blocking his path and he walked right into her. "Where are you going, Ryan?" The evil woman asked. "Diabolico said that he wanted all of us here for something special tonight. He will be most displeased to discover his son's abandonment."

"I'm going out for some fresh air, Vipra." Ryan growled in anger and part shame. "I just wanted to watch the sunset over the beach and envision how it would look from the steps of Queen Bansheera's Temple when it was restored to its rightful glory."

"You're sneaking out to that Power Ranger." Diabolico's voice came from behind Ryan. "He will be missing your presence by now. Go son, make up some story about why you've not been there and keep him entranced with you. He will make an excellent slave for the Queen's Temple."

"Yes, father." Ryan said with a delighted tone of voice. He didn't look back as he quickly ran from the area and he didn't stop running until he'd made it to the beach where he and Chad had made the promise three weeks ago.

Ryan reached the small-secluded cove in a state of breathlessness. The sunset was almost over and he saw two figures, a man and woman walking back toward the entrance to the Aqua Base. He frowned until he realized that the male was too tall and fair to be Chad. He walked toward the spot and found Chad sitting morosely in the sand staring out over the darkening waters. Ryan didn't think and was afraid to breathe as Chad started speaking to the night.

"Ry, I miss you so much." Chad's sad, melancholy tone washed out over the water and the small waves lapping near his feet. "I've not been held in your arms or been able to hold you in mine for what seems like forever. Please come tonight, Ry. I need you, your strength, your love, your understanding. It's been a really rough three weeks, Ry. Please God I need him so much. Let him hear my heart's desire?"

Ryan didn't say a word, he couldn't. He just sat down heavily behind Chad and pulled the now startled man into his arms and held him tightly to his chest. Finally, after a few seconds of silence Ryan choked out, "Blue, I've missed you so much it hurts everywhere, but especially in my heart. Love you."

Chad sighed and relaxed against the broad, pale bare chest he knew was behind him. He wriggled in the sand and finally managed to achieve full contact with Ryan's body against his own from his head to where his own butt was on the cooling sands he sat on. "Thank you, God." Chad breathed out as his troubles, worries, and sadness left him completely.

"Why are you thanking God, Blue?" Ryan asked as he snuggled closer to the slightly smaller yet very well built man in his arms.

"Because, I needed you here tonight, Ry." Chad sighed and accepted the offered comfort of Ryan's embrace without a thought. "I've been so worried that you were hurt, missing, even dead when there was no sign of you at the apartment three days ago. I've almost haunted the hospitals in the area until they threatened to call my boss and complain. I've been miserable, Ry."

"I had to leave unexpectedly, Blue." Ryan sighed and held his lover tighter to him. "I got called away for an emergency with my family and I didn't have a chance to leave you a note. I'm so sorry for putting you through that, love."

"It's all right, love." Chad sighed tiredly. "Hold me, let me sleep a while wrapped so safely in your arms, Ry. I need you." Chad slipped almost immediately off to sleep in Ryan's arms. He was completely unaware when Vipra and Diabolico materialized before the two.

"You are right, Diabolico." Vipra cooed as she watched the Blue Lightspeed Rescue Ranger sleeping in Ryan's arms. "He will make an excellent temple slave. He is skilled at pleasure, Ryan?"

"He will be my slave, Vipra!" Ryan growled in anger at the voluptuous demon before him. "My slave, not yours to enjoy!"

"Now, now, son." Diabolico's voice almost held a smile. "We share our slaves and if Vipra wishes to sample yours; I'm sure she'll provide a suitable one for your pleasures while she explores what pleasures this one can give to his masters."

"You said that I would have my own slave, father." Ryan still held Chad protectively in his arms; however his voice was dripping with anger and almost icy as he faced the two demons that had raised him. "Vipra tends to disfigure those she toys with and I rather like the looks of this one. I don't want him maimed to where he cannot provide me with pleasure when I command it of him."

"You chose one that all of us will wish to see writhing in painful pleasure, Ryan." Diabolico's evil voice was filled with chastisement and some rising anger. "He and those other meddlesome Power Rangers will be taught lessons in who is their rightful masters!"

"Of course, father." Ryan said calmly and deferentially. "He will learn, quickly, who is master and who is slave. But that teaching will be at MY hands and no other shall touch him, ever! I claim this one as my personal slave. One I am entitled to as your son and heir, father."

"You speak well, son." Diabolico growled with pleasure. "Very well, the Blue one shall have his punishment from your hands alone. Do not disappoint me, Ryan, for I will take that displeasure out on the one you have so vocally claimed."

Both evil demons disappeared and both men shivered. Chad from the cold of their passage and Ryan from the fear of what will happen to his beloved now should he ever cross the demon that raised him. "What have I done to us, Blue?" Ryan thought in panic. "You will fight to the end to keep father and the others from destroying what has been built since their imprisonment centuries ago. I will lose you when I must do as father commands and punish you for your defiance. You will hate me from then on and that will kill me, inside and out." "It's getting late, Blue." Chad said very sadly yet his tone was filled with his love for the man in his arms. "The sun's rays have vanished nearly an hour ago. You need to return to work and I will be at the apartment when your next days off come. I promise that, love."

"Don't go, Ry." Chad pleaded sleepily. "Need you, you complete me, love. Without you I'm lost." Ryan didn't get a chance to answer Chad's sleepy plea because before he could Dana's worried voice floated out from the direction of the Aqua Base's entrance.

"CHAD?" Dana called out unexpectedly from the entrance to the base. "DID YOU FALL ASLEEP OUT HERE?"

"I'm here, Dana." Chad said wearily and sadly as Ryan quickly scooted away into the shadows and disappeared. Chad rose and smiled slightly as he saw Ry making his way up the slight embankment toward the roadway that was nearby. "I think I dozed off for a few minutes out here it was so peaceful."

"It's two hours after curfew." Dana said as Chad jogged up to where she was in the entrance. "I didn't want you getting into trouble and missing your next time off slot. Did the person you've been waiting for show up?"

"Yeah, he did, Dana." Chad said with a small smile playing about his face. "He got called away with a family emergency; but he promised he'd be there for my next time off slot."

"You look happier, more content, tonight. I'm truly happy for you, Chad." Dana said with a smile as the two walked down the long tunnel that led into the Lightspeed Aqua Base far below the waves that tickled the beaches of Mariner Bay above.

"Thanks Dana." Chad said with a sigh as they reached the base itself and they went to their separate cabins for the night.

The next morning, Chad went diving in the bay as usual and then joined the rest of his new friends and teammates in the galley. They ate and were fighting against a monster when the Cyborg Rangers came to their aid. Chad and the others were fired from their jobs as Rangers. Then when the cyborgs went berserk because of a lightening attack by the monster they'd been fighting, Captain Mitchell restored them to their positions.

That night, Chad wearily entered his apartment. They had been given, barring any attacks by Diabolico or Vipra the next three days off. "Ry?" Chad said as he tossed his keys onto the small table by the door and dropped his duffle so he could shrug off his blue checker patterned short-sleeved shirt. He stood in his blue tank top and then a large smile crossed his face as Ryan entered the small living room from the direction of the kitchen.

"Blue?" Ryan asked and then broke into a smile. "How long?"

"Three days." Chad replied as he quickly crossed the open distance between them and embraced his taller lover fiercely.

"I'll worry about eating food later then." Ryan said and surprised Chad when he swept the slightly smaller man into his arms and carried him into the bedroom without straining.

- End of Chapter -