A/N: third last chapter!

CHAPTER 21: IN LOVE

"so, DC, how long are we going to stay here now that Venezuhu is captured?" Jack asked Cruger.

The big blue dog said something from the other end, and Syd asked, hushed, "how long?"

Jack replied, placing a hand on the receiver, "he says as long as Z takes to recover. It was supposed to be a vacation for her, and a mission for the rest of us but we all know how that's turned out, right?"

"alright, tell him, that she'll recover soon, and we'll all stay here till she does." Syd replied,

"hasn't she already recovered, I mean she's dating Sky." Jack contradicted.

"he doesn't need to know that, alright?" Syd asked, "we also need some time to chillax, especially now we're out of the whole Christina mess."

That's what Jack told Cruger then, "sir, we'll inform you when she does. And we hope it will be long…" bit his tongue on what he said, "I mean won't be long" and then quickly cut off the phone.

"ok, cool, now we have the time to ourselves." Syd said, "what do you wanna do?" she asked.

"depends." Jack said, and then looked at the bed, sideways.

"No!" Syd yelped, "dammit, NO Jack! Christie's easy, I know, I am not. You don't get me in bed until you prove that you deserve me."

"and how do I do that?" Jack asked.

"I have an idea." Syd said, cocking her head to one side, and grinning.

X-X-X

Sky and Z were looking at each other's faces, sitting on the bed of their room, not quite knowing what to say. Sky was red with embarrassment, while Z had her own issues.

"ssssooo…" Sky dragged the word till his baritone voice gave out.

"yeah so?" she asked.

"why are your cheeks turning so red?"

"I'm supposed to be the blue ranger, and always on duty. I'm not supposed to be leaving my SPD morpher unattended in a hotel room. I should've been the first one to reach you. God knows what could have happened to you because of my carelessness. This just shows that I'm not ready to be on the B-Squad yet. I mean…" he sighed.

"Sky, you thought this was a vacation and you loosened up. There's nothing more to it. Okay? You're just perfect for whoever you are. Don't get too worried. I wanted this for you, and I can't be happier." She said.

"but what if something happened to you?" he asked.

"I'm not five Sky. I'm a twenty one year old, who is more or less capable of taking care of herself, and nothing happened to me. I'm fine! I'm SPD for goodness' sake." Z said, and Sky realized the point. He was just about to say something else to contradict what she had said, but the next moment whatever he said, was lost as her lips pressed against his, "Sky, loosen up" she said, breaking apart.

"who asked you to stop?" he asked her, and then chuckled and they kissed again.

They were in their room again, and it was nearly eleven o'clock.

After they were done kissing, Sky asked, finally, "Z, what's troubling you?"

"it's nothing Sky." She brushed him off.

"come on, it has to be something big to flip you off?" and so he kept pestering her to tell him, and finally she did.

"look Sky, Justi—Venezuhu said something that makes me think." She said.

"okay…" Sky waited for her to continue.

"he said," she finally blurted it all out under his pensive gaze.

"he said, that I didn't fall for you, that you had feelings for me, but I didn't, and that I was with you to get back at some ex of mine."

Sky sat there, shocked, listening intently, and waiting for her to continue.

"now Sky, I know that one day, if not just now, all these doubts will come to your mind too. You will question our relationship thinking whether it had all just been because of my break-up with Adrian or was it real. Don't say that these doubts have never come to your mind Sky; I know they will, someday. It's human nature." She said, and then paused to let him process this much, and places a finger on his lip when he began to speak,

"in case you ever get these doubts, I'd ask you to remember this:" she closed her eyes, "when Venezuhu questioned our relationship, the first words that came out of my lips were, 'I loved Sky', and Sky, I know it is quite less time to fall in love with someone but I think I have. And it's absolutely okay if you don't feel the same way, I—" she couldn't finish her sentence as Sky placed a finger on her lips as she had, and whispered into her ear, softly, "I love you too. I did since I saw you on that beach, playing in the water. Though I couldn't realized it then."

She looked at him, and he realized there were tears in her eyes, beautiful, crystal-like tears, which, this time, he didn't stop from falling. Tears of happiness, love, joy, he couldn't stop his own eyes from watering, and he hugged her tightly.

She hugged him back, "I love you" she repeated, some words she would've never thought would come out of her lips for him.

"so, what now?" she asked when they finally pulled apart minutes later, and a sudden urge gripped him, he kissed her passionately, and pressed his body against hers, and she realized what he was going for, and placed a hand on his perfectly ripped chest, and pushed him back, so he lay on the bed, with her sitting on top of his waist, both legs on either side, kissing passionately. Then her lips changed course as she went from kissing his lips to his neck, then she realized he was trying to take off her shirt, and broke apart quite reluctantly to let him, and she did the same to him. Shirtless now, they resumed the kiss, continuing to kick off all other clothes as they proceeded with their night of love.

X-X-X

"the mission's over, I have no reason to be stuck with you anymore. So I'm leaving" Bridge said, as he packed all his stuff and Sam (the older one) watched him, hovering about in the air.

"that doesn't mean you can't stay some more, I mean dude, chill out, we talked to Cruger and he says it's fine that we stay for three more weeks!" Sam said.

"I thought Syd and Jack was gonna talk to Cruger, cuz Sky and Z were 'busy'? Z said," Bridge objected, and then added, "besides, Cruger would never allow three weeks on SPD's budget. Not for fun. Come on! Sky and Syd wanted a fake vacation, and Cruger gave us an actual undercover mission. I mean, that's just cheap"

"alright, you caught me. I didn't talk to Cruger, but buddy, loosen up! Everything was just perfect when we came here. What happened?" Sam sounded worried.

'well I didn't know I was gay and in love with you when we got here!' Bridge thought to himself, but stayed quiet, packing up his clothes.

But no, he couldn't manage to stay with this guy alone for anymore time!

He was packing everything up, and well . . . leaving. He knew he'd be avoiding Sam and at SPD, it'd be easier, with three hundred people here and there to talk to.

"I'm done with this place." He said, and Sam heard it, and felt it very rude and hurtful, coming from an amazing friend like Bridge.

"fine, if you're so done, then so am I." he said, and floated out of the room, and no matter how bad Bridge felt about it, he didn't stop Sam. He needed to be away with both of them.

Bridge was packing up everything he had, and had already booked a flight to NewTech City. He'd be the first one to leave this place. Let all of his friends come whenever they please.

Bye-bye Bridge

A/N: so Bridge just leaving? That doesn't make sense. He was never the type of guy who'd push people away right? What will Sam do? Will they have a happy ending? Or not?

Check out the next chapter to find out, love you all! Bye-bye till the next time!