A/N: this is just a basic fic giving a history of the rangers, and what happened to them. R&R

Ch-6: Past

The next morning, sky woke up to find z already in the shower. He could hear the water running. He himself got to his old routine of having about fifty push-ups before doing anything else, and so he was all sweaty when Z came out of the bathroom.

"hey sky." She softly said. Her demeanor was completely changed. Usually if she saw him first thing in the morning, her reaction was like, 'oh, you're up.' Or, 'my day is screwed.'

But today, she had greeted him with a gentle smile.

"hi Z," it was his duty to return the favor.

"so, sky, I was wondering about what happened last night…." She began.

"you don't need to say anything. I'll not tell anyone, I promise."

"thank you sweetie." She said, and hugged him, "ooohhh, you got your sweat all over me." She grinned.

"no, You got my sweat all over you." He grinned back, they laughed together, and suddenly Z darted back into the bathroom, "I need another shower, cuz I got your sweat all over me." She shouted from inside.

Sky smiled, and shook his head, 'this girl is the one who'll get me killed' he joked to himself.

She emerged from the shower after another ten minutes, and let him in finally. She was just sitting on the bedspread, doing nothing really, when she had an idea. She got up and left, going through the SPD corridors; she came up to older sky and Z's room. She knocked, and it was a few minutes before anyone answered.

"what?" older Z snapped, she was still wearing that crimson bathrobe from last night.

"well, I was getting bored. Do you have something I can pass time with?" she asked.

"yeah, I guess you can look at my album." She said, handing Z a little case.

"thanks" younger Z replied, and went off, wondering what she and sky would be up to.

She went to her room, and looked at the virtual pictures that popped up from the case in a slide show kind of fashion. She looked at the pictures one by one.

First was of her and jack, even younger Z remembered snapping that. It was when she had gotten her camera for the first time.

The next few were of the SPD ranger squad, the one with all the rangers, as she had known.

Next were of hers and Bridge. She didn't know who had clicked them, but it had some really private moments. She knew now that this was the future, after the time the two from the past had seen. Then there were a few Halloween and Christmas ones, looking at which, it was very simple to say that she and bridge had been a couple. Then suddenly, there was a New Years Eve video. She clicked on that and it began playing. They were all on the terrace; she was there with Sky, Bridge, Syd, Cruger, some guy she didn't know, and of course, Kat Manx, who was shooting everything. It showed jack entering, and the clock striking midnight, and just as bridge was gonna come to her, sky came, and kissed her on the lips. She had initially pushed him away, but then he looked at her, and she looked at Bridge, who was standing there with an expression redder than anything she had ever seen. With Kat's commentary, she realized that she had broken up with Bridge a few weeks ago due to his more and more noxious attitude. And younger Z couldn't believe the fact that bridge Carson, sweet goofy Bridgey could ever be 'noxious'. But I guess people change.

Then after that, there were at least a hundred pictures of her and sky, and then ones of her wedding, with him. There was a wedding video, recording their vows, and it was just so sweet what each had said, it was beautiful to watch, and she realized that she wanted to be there, feel all of that in person. And then those of their first (and only) child being born. There were videos showing Kat and the others waiting outside the operation theater, waiting to be called in, and waiting for the baby to arrive. Sky was so tensed, he paced up and down the corridor, nervously rubbing his neck as he used to. The child was named Richard Daniel Tate, after both their fathers, both of them who had died. They still called him Richie.

She realized that bridge was now completely out of the picture, there were no pictured of bridge in there. The last one had been of the whole SPD team together. A lot of new people had been added to the team etc, but bridge was nowhere to be seen. She showed all these pictures to sky, once he was out of the shower, and they decided to ask the older ones for the whole story. At the bottom of the case was a small picture, printed on paper; it was of Sky, Z, Richie, and Ruth, along with Sky's mother. The whole family. It was beautiful, but also a little sad, and both of them sat looking at the picture, without uttering a word.

A/N: sorry to all the bridge carson fans, i needed a villain, and i couldn't do any better. i know it is a very confusing chapter, so please post your questions in the reviews, and i'll answer them in the next chapter, in a form of conversation between the characters.