A/N: cute Sky/Z moment ahead. and the part two in in answer to Z Tate's question. Review pls.

Ch-8: Chemistries

That night, sky and Z headed into their room, on their way, they encountered Ruth and Sam again.

"sup you two?" Sky asked.

"oh, lookie, it's your parents." Sam joked.

"quit it guys, I'm not really in a mood." Z said,

"See, that's my mom." Ruth said, and Z without any further words, walked away.

Sky followed her, Sam and Ruth just shrugged.

"what was that about?" he asked, entering the room after her, and locking the door.

"I don't feel well." She replied.

"is this still about your car getting towed?" he asked, now a little annoyed by her attitude. They hadn't talked at all, all evening.

"no, that's not what it is about!" she said, getting into the shower, and he shouted from behind, "THEN WHAT IS IT ABOUT?"

she didn't reply, so, annoyed, he opened the door to the shower, and stuck his head in.

"What is it about?" he asked again, having a view of a completely naked Z Delgado.

"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL SKY! ARE YOU DRUNK? YOU CAN'T JUST BARGE INTO ANYONE'S SHOWER LIKE THAT!" she yelled, wrapping a towel around herself.

"Tell me what this is about, or I won't leave." He said, letting himself in.

"You son of a bitch." Z said, picturing how the others would react if she returned to the past with Sky on a gurney.

"listen to me, Z, I'm sorry for doing this, but I need to know what's been bothering you; it's been killing me to see you like that."

"why do you care what's bothering me?"

He slowly said, "because I care about you."

"wh-" she was just speechless.

"yes, Z, it might just be this air from the future or something, but I realized that I care about you. Seeing you upset, first about Ruth, then about the car, or whatever this is, I feel like I have to do something, I mean, I just don't know what to say, I am kinda bad at expressing feelings." He ended annoyed with himself.

"I think I know what you want to say, I feel the same way." She replied, leaning closer to his face, "I see you getting along so well with Ruth, I feel a kind of burning sensation, like you should be with me, not her, my…" she trailed off, they looked into each other's eyes, and he grasped her cheeks, in his palms, and gently pressed his lips against hers.

She lost all consciousness in the kiss and kissed him back with all the passion she had, the gentle kiss turned into a heated make-out session. After a few long minutes of intense kissing, both of them pulled apart for air, completely out of breath.

"you feel that way?" he asked, panting.

"yes, yes, a thousand times yes!" she exclaimed, and he picked her up, kissing her again, as her towel fell off…

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Meanwhile, outside in the corridors, older Sky was up. Z was asleep, she was tired after their daylong lovemaking session, but he was worried, hell worried about what the younger ones had told him, about Carson, and DeeZee Vaughn.

His thoughts raced back to the time he was their age. The first time he had kissed Z.

It had been one of those late night watch-out thingies, and they had been assigned together. She was dating bridge, but they felt deeply for each other, it was like they just clicked together, and they had become really good friends, both had wanted something, and those two got kinda drunk on beers that night, they knew it was a little out of order, yeah right, it was completely out of line, but they did it anyway, bored to death, and after a few drunken games, kissed each other passionately. This was a little too out of line, and it ended up making both of them uncomfortable with each other for weeks when they realized what they had done, even their friends noticed it. Syd broke up with sky as he was acting weird, and Bridge and Z broke up for reasons Z couldn't explain. Truth was, Bridge suspected Z to have feelings for Sky. He was definitely proven right.

But anyway, on New Years Eve, about two and a half weeks after their kiss at the HQ, he finally gathered up enough courage to go on, and kiss her, in front of everybody they knew.

That was it for Bridge Carson, he felt just too much. First she dumps him, then she hooks up with the guy who he called his best friend. This was just not fair at all, he thought she loved him, and then she left him, for Sky, Sky Tate, the machine! He kept his anger in check for almost a couple years, after which, Sky got promoted to the commander position as Birdy retired and Cruger became the supreme commander, he was now the red ranger, with rage worse than Yosemite Sam, and finally collapsed… he became evil, a supervillain with psychic powers, and then (illegally) got into a number of drug rackets, murderous gangs etc, became a horribly corrupt officer, all of it while being the SPD red ranger, until finally in the wake of Syd's divorce, he was discovered.

That in itself had been quite a story, with Syd just signing the divorce papers at the court, and then coming out of the courtroom, just to see him talking to a criminal. He hadn't said he'd be there... nor did he have a case's hearing to go to. What was he doing here? Something was up, Syd realized and decided to eavesdrop on the conversation. If it hadn't been for that impromptu visit to the court, maybe Bridge Carson's darker side would've never been discovered...

Then he ran away from SPD, and in battles, he turned Sky into an invalid, a broken man; that happened on the day of Sky and Z's 15th anniversary, when he crashed the party and paralyzed Sky's legs.

Now he was back.

All these thoughts ran through Sky's brain as he ran co-ordinate searches to find the location of criminal psychopath, murderer, rapist, and scandal Bridge Carson, his once upon best friend…

He knew it was entirely his fault. Yet, he couldn't do anything about it…

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A/N: my apologies again to the bridge carson fans, but i need a villain, and who better than an ex boyfriend. also, Bridge's character is inspired by Drake Merwin. if you know who that is, leave a reply in the comments.