Thawing the Ice
By Crimson Nova
Summary: things aren't easy for Ryan after his return; can his friends thaw the ice around his heart?
Proviso: I own nothing Power rangers.
Author's note: Ok, I'm still working on "By Heart" but this has been on my mind for a while now so I had to get it out.
Chapter 1.
Ryan sat there watching as Dana rose. She wasn't the little girl he'd resented for so many years. She was a young woman, one with four good friends, one of which who loved her. He didn't know how to feel about that. He no longer resented her but the love he should feel wasn't there. He'd come back to see what he could recover but with his little sister he had no clue what to do. He was so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't hear anyone sit down.
"She's not the little girl you left." He glanced over to find his father there in the seat across from him his coffee in hand. Ryan just nodded in reply. What could he say?
"You had a rough life, but didn't have it easy either." At his father's words Ryan frowned.
"She had you, a safe home and a normal life." Ryan said quietly and winced at the faint twinge of resentment in his tone, where had it come from? He did not resent her, she was his sister.
"After the accident, she cried herself to sleep each night." William Mitchell said quietly. He thought it was time that his son saw that what had happened to him had affected his sister as well as himself. "She never understood or remembered it in the morning. Then there were the nights she woke up screaming. She never remembered the dreams either."
Ryan listened to this his eyes on his father's weathered face. He'd not known that she'd been through anything more than a typical single parent life. He'd thought she'd just gone on being little Dana the pest.
"When she was six I finally took her to counseling. It came out under hypnotism that she believed it was her fault that you fell." Ryan began to toy with his own coffee cup. "Even though she didn't remember much, Dana remembered your calling for me to help you and seeing you fall. They said it was her minds way of blocking out the trauma of the whole incident."
Ryan sat listening trying to imagine his sister so upset. It was hard. She was usually such a happy person, confident and kind. How could she gone through that and now be so normal? Those were the thoughts Ryan considered as his father finished his coffee and rose.
"Also consider this; things happen for a reason, if that hadn't happened you'd not have come when the other rangers most needed you." His father told him calmly and walked off.
Ryan didn't know what to say or even really what to think about anything anymore, so much had happened. All he knew was he had to expend some energy so he got to his feet, got rid of his dishes and headed for the training room.
TBC
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