The significance of being Dana
By Pyrorescue1
Summary: When Dana is tired of being Plain Kelsey and Ms. Fairweather help her recreate herself. What kind of trouble will this cause?
Proviso: I own nothing Power rangers.
Author's note: This is sort FO a stand alone; it takes place sometime before "From Deep in the Shadows." Still it can stand apart from the way the show actually went.
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Dana stood there, looking in disgust at her straight blonde hair and plain clothes. Why was it no matter how she tried to act she was still the same old boring Dana? It was so not fair. How was it other girls could be so pretty and not have to worry about dressing so she could fight if it was needed. Heavens it had been ages since she'd been able to be like that. She thought of he reason she'd started feeling like this. She'd been sitting at a table in the common room reading over her advanced anatomy test when he'd come into the room.
"Working hard?" He asked pausing by her shoulder.
"Hmm," she murmured smelling the scent of his aftershave. Heavens it was so spicy, like Carter. She sighed pushing that thought out of her mind. Thinking like that would get her no where. So you're not in training o anything this afternoon."
"No, I was going to go out with a friend but she canceled." He said moving over to the couch t have a seat.
"Hmm, tough luck." She mumbled, was that jealousy she felt spiking through her veins?
"Yeah." He shrugged picking up the remote.
"So what are you going to do this afternoon?" She asked forcing her eyes to the words on the page she'd been reading. She couldn't look at him; she didn't want him to see her face lest she'd actually turned green.
"I don't know, I thought I'd watch some TV or something." He said channel surfing.
"Hmm." She forced her mind back from that sharp tug of jealousy. They were friends and he'd not even mentioned a girlfriend. But then she was just one of the gang so what did it matter?
Now though standing in front of her mirror she wished she could be the girl he'd spend an afternoon, non ranger related with. She wished he'd see her as more than a friend. Still who would, she was pale with limp blonde hair and dull blue eyes, just like half of the girls in mariner Bay.
Maybe she just needed a change, maybe a little hair die, and she could go red head or something. Would it make that much of a difference?
Dana then noticed just what she was wearing, pink blouse like all of the others and the same dull grey skirt she always wore.
"Face it Mitchell your just not what guys want." She muttered to herself.
"Hey what's going on?" Kelsey asked coming into the room they shared. She'd been out with Chad and Joel trying to help Joel figure out what was wrong with him.
"You modeling?" She asked taking in her friend's stance before the mirror.
"Oh yeah, I was just thinking. Kel do you think I look to plain?" She asked moving away from the mirror to plop down on her bed.
"Plain? Dana you're an excellent fighter, a pre med student? Paramedic and a power ranger I'd say not." Kelsey sat on her own bed looking over at her friend. What had gotten into her?
"That's not what I mean." Dana sighed picking up her small brown teddy bear.
"Your clothes?" Kelsey asked remembering how Dana had looked at herself as she'd come through the door.
"Yeah, look at me; I'm in this stuff day in and day out." Dana gestured to her current outfit; one Kelsey had once thought that her friend should burn.
"It's not that bad." the yellow tank clad brunette shrugged; she didn't want her friend to feel worse than she obviously did.
"Right, well I don't know, maybe if I were to do something with my hair and maybe…"Dana flopped back on her bed, knowing she probably sounded like a winy little girl again but what could she do? Hell, until she'd become a ranger she'd had very few friends. It had even been hard learning how to get along well with the others on a personal level. Maybe she should just give up [this and go back t her studies. At least with it came to medicine she was on solid ground, she knew the stuff completely.
"Dana, does this have anything to do with that really hot guy you've been eyeing since we were first rangers?" Kelsey asked her friend slyly after a minute.
"Kelsey, what are you talking about?" Dana lifted her head not willing to fully sit up again.
"Hello Carter." Kelsey waved her hands in the air as if it should be perfectly obvious.
"Kel he's a friend." Dana mumbled morosely. What was she so apparent?
"And that's all?" The brunette asked a slim brown brow arched in query.
"Well yeah, what would he want with a dull perfectly average girl?" Dana asked sighing in apparent depression.
"A date." Angela Fairweather suggested hopefully. She'd never seen Dana like this. Her friend was usually so chipper, even when she was getting in hot water with her father. The scientist wondered what had done this to her. Had Carter said something? yet she knew he wouldn't, sometimes she caught the red ranger watching out for Dana on and off the battle field.
"Ms. F?" Dana asked sitting up and Kelsey was too looking at the bespectacled young woman in the doorway to the girl's quarters.
"I couldn't help but hear your conversation from the hall and Dana I know for a fact that you are not plain." With a moments hesitation she moved into the room and over to the pretty girl that had been her first friend within the base.
"How Can you say that?" Dana asked dejectedly thinking of her image in the mirror.
"Here, come here." the older girl said and once again Dana found herself in front of the mirror. Then she found the scientist pulling her blond hair back from her face.
"Maybe you could use a little body wave but your as pretty as any model."
"That's true; I know this place in town."
"You?"
"Hey I do get dressed up from time to time."
"Ok well I'll have to talk with your father." Ms. Fairweather said and Dana frowned.
"I can do it."
"No, lets keep it just between us, it will be a surprise." The scientist grinned mischievously.
"Ok."Dana said and with that ms. Fairweather left the girls to go find the captain.
TBC
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Chapter 1 finished, what do you think? Should I continue? PLZ let me know. PR1