Kathleen entered the command center to talk to Cruger about how she should let Sky find out what was causing her to be afraid of him and Cruger agreed that allowing him to read the police reports and see the pictures was the best idea; that way he'd get the best idea what she went through.
Kathleen left and Commander Cruger retrieved the file then called Sky to the command center; he needed to know what Kathleen had been through and there was no better time than then to do it.
Sky walked into the command center and saluted the commander.
"Cadet Tate, I have opened up Kathleen Manx's file for you to look through at your leisure along with your team mates if you like" Cruger said
"I would like to look through it on my own first, sir, so I'll have some idea what I'm showing the team" Sky said
"Okay, go right on ahead" Cruger walked away as Sky opened the file folder and stared out of the command center and towards his room. The first thing that caught his attention was the think envelope labeled "pictures" that were all of Kathleen as a small child, he didn't really start to study the images until he got into his room and the door had closed behind him.
He sat on his bead and laid the file folder out, open on his bed, he looked at each picture and began to understand what Kathleen had told him earlier that day. She had suffered horribly at her stepfather's hands, he had adopted her from an orphanage along with his wife and he started abusing her after he found out what she was. The pictures disturbed sky, but the police and medical reports troubled him more so, they stated that the worst abuse she suffered was verbal and sexual! That made her behavior in Kat's lab make perfect sense he had acted in his usual 'I ought to be red ranger' manner and disturbed the worst of the memories she held of her years of being abused by a person who should have loved her. Sky wanted to kill her stepfather for what he did to her.
'This guy doesn't deserve to live' Sky thought angrily as he read that her father was just locked up in a high security prison. He pulled out the worst picture of Kathleen and wondered how she could've endured such abuse and end up so compassionate. She had been nine in that picture and according to the police report she had been beaten up badly and told that if she ever informed anyone she would be raped! That was like a slash from the Shadow Saber, she was threatened with rape, as he found out it hadn't been the first time she was threatened in that manner and wasn't the last.
"Ah man, she has been through hell!" Sky whispered, "When will her misery end?" he then thought or a moment. "It will end only when she realizes it is all truly over, that I'm not like her stepfather, I won't hurt her like that… she's a member of the SPD family, even if she wasn't a cadet because she is the daughter of one of the existing members, Kat and that brings her in by default. She has no idea how important she is to SPD, but there is one thing she does need to know, I am not violent towards my fellow cadets unless they bring it upon themselves by breaking the law!" Sky felt like someone had ripped his heart out, Kathleen had been hurt, betrayed and nearly killed by a man she thought loved her. Now she was paying the price, her lack of trust was no surprise to Sky anymore, he had found out a lot and now was better prepared to help her
He now understood that the way he acted was frightening to her and that he'd have to change in order to get her to even give him a chance to get to know her better and to become her friend.
To be continued…
A/n: I know the chapters are short but pls. leave a review anyway