Disclaimer: Oh, how jealous I am of Disney for being able to own Andros and Ashley and Zhane...

Green-Eyed Monster

Sometimes it was so easy to hate her.

Hate them.

Sometimes he just wanted to ignore his conscience and let his mind, body and spirit just hate the way they could just laugh.

Hate the way they could just have fun.

Hate them for enjoying life.

Hate them for being so happy.

He knew they too had suffered. He knew they too had known sorrow. Anger. Hate. But they had also known love. So had he. But while they had only felt the suffering of souls they didn't know… he had seen the way his people withered under a grip of evil. He had felt the way his family felt every time another person was injured; every time they were sent into battle; every time another person didn't come back.

Once that was his brother.

Maybe not blood brother, but his brother nonetheless. Every part of his heart agreed with that idea, and no part of his mind rebelled.

So when he said his last goodbye to his friend – for who knows how long? – the hurt had cut deep into his heart… and that final look at him, encased in carbonite, encased in his ranger suit, a helmet covering the person he was, had sealed his heart.

But now all he was doing was pitying himself.

Lying alone in his room.

Lying alone in the dark.

Lying alone in his memories.

So when he heard the peal of laughter, the playful banter, and the way the rowdy footsteps slowed outside his door and the hushed conversation outside, his heart clenched painfully.

It ached for the friendship he had been too long without.

It longed for the smiles he hadn't experienced in, well, forever.

And it desired the love that was slowly melting his heart. The love a sunny smile brought. The love a twinkling eye and mischievous glance created. The love he felt whenever he got just a little too close, whenever his hand accidentally brushed a certain someone's, the love he now wished for a little too much.

So much that maybe, someday, he wouldn't feel the need to only want these things that these Earthly rangers had.

So much that maybe, one day, he could let go of his harbored feelings and accept them.

Little by little, his 'green-eyed monster' (as he had heard it being referred to before) melted in the wakening of his heart.

Phantom Rogue, Yay! I updated! After… many… many… months… ::sheepish:: I apologize. ::nods:: But hopefully you liked this! Happy New Year!

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