20)

The next morning, Sky woke up by hearing a thunder around 5:45am, and saw outside the window to see the downpour. And then he turned and smiled to see Z deep in slumber with her hair disheveled, sleeping on her stomach, with her left hand on Sky and the other one above her head on the pillow. She was half covered, the thin quilt only covering her till her waist and Sky could see love marks on her shoulder which made him smirk thinking about last night, he then kissed her on the shoulder and pulled the cover up till her neck, just then Z turned in her sleep and turned her back to him and he frowned and pulled her slightly and carefully made her turn to him which she did because she was in her sleep and held her close to him, he felt her bare body touch his and her breathing on his neck and felt so good and cuddled her and was just about to doze off when *beep beep* *beep beep* his morpher rang and he groaned and when Z was about to wake up, he quickly turned the alarm off and stroked her hair so that she fell asleep again, and kissed her and went to the bathroom to freshen up unwillingly, not everyday does one wake up with their loved one after spending an eventful night. While he came out after freshening up he saw Z still cuddled up and sleeping, and saw the time, 6:25, aah what the heck he thought he could wake her up 5mins early for once, but just then his morpher beeped, Kat on the line saying "Sky, I'm getting a reading of an unnatural energy source."

Sky said "I'll be there in 5."

as he looked at Z once more, sighed and left.

Z came into the common room with a smile that didn't leave her face for a second. Tylor who was sitting on the sofa noticed her blush and asked teasingly "Soooo what's causing our blue ice queen to blush up?"

Z rolled her eyes still smiling "Can it Ty."

Tylor chuckled as she went to the molecular generator to get her fruit smoothie and as she sat beside him. Tylor noticed a little mark on her neck, which she was trying to cover with her uniform jacket collar and open hair, and understood just what that mark was and could feel his insides churning in fire, he thought he was over her but apparently not. He just couldn't take it. But he kept his feelings aside and simply smiled at the already smiling Z as she drank her smoothie and read her book.

Sky, who went for rounds, returned in the afternoon to the command centre to find the A-squad rangers sitting and working on the round table as Kat worked in her area. Sky saw Z's back was turned to him, and smiled faintly on seeing her. Bridge who was staring at Sophie, saw Sky and smiled at him "Heyyyy Skyyy!" "I mean Commander..." he immediately changed on seeing Sky look heavenward. Suddenly all the rangers got up. Sky saw them and said "At ease rangers. Get back to work."

Z's eyes were fixed on him, and as Sky saw everyone return to work, he looked at Z and gave a tiny kiss from a far, Z smiled and winked at him. Tylor who was seeing all this, sat there glaring at his computer screen, while swearing in his head. Sky went and sat on his chair and had a clear view of Z and kept stealing glances at her while working as did she.

After destroying and containing their latest alien criminal, the rangers returned to the SPD headquarters all tired and dirty after the long fight in the swamp. Bridge and Sophie went to Bridge's room, Tylor and Kyle went to their room and Z went to the commander's room. As she entered, she went to take a long hot shower. Her smile from the morning had disappeared mostly because she hadn't got an opportunity to talk to Sky apart from little formal conversations and that annoyed her. Sky could take a break couldn't he? Even Cruger did not work as much as Sky when he was the commander. Z frowned as she came out of the shower and started drying herself and wore her black track pants and blue tank top and as she dried her hair she connected to Sky on the morpher but he disconnected it.

So she went to the balcony and sat on the mattress, she sighed thinking about her special night, how much she loved every bit of it and slowly her eyes closed and she dozed off. After 20 minutes, Sky came to his room knowing Z was unhappy, she made it pretty clear with her face all evening. He came to see the bed empty, but her morpher and watch were on the side table. He understood where she was and changed quickly and took the quilt from the bed and went to the balcony to see Z sleeping cuddled up with a pillow on the mattress. He smiled and laid beside her and covered both of them as he gently stroked her long damp hair as he held her cool body close to his. Z woke up from her nap and felt Sky holding her and turned to hold him back tightly. Sky sunk his face in her, as she held him tight, inhaling her fragrant scent of vanilla.

Sky then looked up into her eyes and said "Mmm... I love you." but didn't wait for her to respond as he kissed her. Z also kissed him back, as his strong hands roamed on her soft skin beneath her top. After they broke out, Z smiled and said "I love you too..." as they both slept off in eachother's embrace after a tiring day.

After 3 months.

Around 7:30 in the morning, Z came laughing in the command centre with Sophie and Kyle, drinking a glass of juice and him drinking a smoothie, and they froze when they heard Sky saying "This is the command centre not a restaurant."

All three turned back and stared at Sky and Z gulped.

Kyle blurted "C...commander! We thought you went on a mission!"

Sky rolled his eyes "The foreign energy source was from an alien space particle, Kat is looking into it now." All three noded.

Sky then glares at them "So whenever I'm not present you guys do whatever you feel like?"

"No no no we don't!"

Sky sighs "Dismissed."

And all three start walking out and Sky said "Not you Delgado."

Z closed her eyes "Damn."

Sophie and Kyle controlled their laughter as they walked out and Z glared at them and turned back.

Sky then said "What are you doing Delgado? You're drinking juice in the command centre? You're supposed to know better than them."

Z says "Well I woke up late commander and didn't get time to eat anything."

When they were left alone, as Boom and Kat left, running after an uncontrollable R.I.C., Sky scolded her "I'm tired of your reckless behavior Z."

Z sighed "Sorry commander it was just that I couldn't sleep at night because..." she then smirked at Sky whos lips formed a slight smile "...but that's alright I won't let that happen anymore because you said so..." she winked and started walking away when Sky said in horror "No no no no I didn't mean that..."

Z smiled widely as he walked closer to her and pulled her into him "You are allowed to do what you did last night, but just wake up early."

Just then Z whispered in his ear seductively "Oh yeah?"

Sky smirked as he kissed her neck "Oh yeah." Suddenly the command centre doors open and they broke apart and saw something that caused Z to drop her juice.

(A/n: SomeTHING or someONE? Hmmm ;) )