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Chapter 5 – Falling Apart

Bridge headed towards his room feeling physically and emotionally drained. His head was thumping in pain from all the emotions he could feel throughout the base. All he wanted to do was try to sleep, but he was sure that was going to be impossible. First he needed to check on Sky, hoping that his best friend was still asleep he entered their room and stopped at the sight that met his eyes in the moonlit room.

Sky was sat on the floor, his head buried in his knees which had his arms wrapped around them. He was shaking violently. The moonlight was cascading down on him causing an eerie pool of light to glimmer around his body. What Bridge saw before him sent shivers down his spine. Sky had always been the strong one of the team, and to see him like this made Bridge's heart ache for his best friend.

Bridge went over and sat next to Sky. Placing a hand on his shaking shoulder, he gently said, "Sky, it's me, talk to me buddy."

Sky raised his head, "Bridge?" he queried, "I'm right here Sky," came the reassuring voice of the green ranger.

"I dreamt about her Bridge," he whispered, "dreamt that she was killed. Then I woke up and realised it was no dream but the truth." Sky's voice broke, "She's really gone hasn't she?"

Bridge closed his eyes in pain at the heartbreak in Sky's voice, "Yes Sky, she's really gone," he answered sadly. There was no point in asking Sky how he was doing, Bridge could see quite clearly that Sky was barely coping, and he felt so helpless. There was nothing he could say, nothing he could do that would make everything alright again. Their lives were forever changed by the events that had happened.

Giving into the pain and grief he was feeling he sat down next to Sky, leaning back against the wall,. Silence fell, both of them lost in their own personal memories of Syd, and there the two of them remained until dawn broke over a new day.

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Z walked out of the infirmary after being released and headed towards the recreation room, where she was sure she would find the others. Sure enough all three of them were in there sat down in silence.

Sky looked up at Z as she walked in and anger so strong filled him as he saw her walking towards them. It was her fault Syd was dead. He jumped up and started to stride from the room throwing her a look that if looks could kill Z would have died on the spot.

Z looked after him in confusion. What had that look been for? "Sky?" she called after him, he didn't stop or turn around, "SKY!" she shouted. Jack and Bridge look towards her at the sound of her shout. Sky stopped but didn't turn around.

Z walked towards Sky suddenly a little uncertain of what to say, "Sky, what is it?" she asked him and rested her hand gently on his back certainly not prepared for what happened next.

Sky violently twisted his body away from her hand and turned around to look at her, his face so filled with hate that she took a step back.

"Don't touch me, don't you ever lay a finger on me again Delgado," he hissed viciously at the confused yellow ranger.

Jack and Bridge came to their feet instantly both of them sensing trouble from the tone of Sky's voice and stood behind Z. "Sky what have I done?" Z's voice wavered as she asked him.

"It should have been you not Syd, she should be standing here right now in front of me, but no, its you and I hate you for that," he spat at her.

Z went white at his words and Jack chose to step in deciding enough was enough, Sky had gone too far. "Sky that's enough, it's not Z's fault, save your hate for the bastard that did this to Syd."

Sky threw a look at Jack filled with loathing and then spun and stalked from the room. Z started to weep quietly in Bridge's arms. Jack looked at them both and then at the door that Sky had just left through. He took a deep breath and walked after Sky. This couldn't go on, the team was already beginning to fall apart after Syd's death and it was up to him to try and pull them back together. He reached Sky's room and pensively entered, finding the blue ranger had thrown himself down on the bed, an angry expression on his face.

"Sky…." Jack began, but was interrupted. "Save it Landors, I don't want to hear it," Sky snarled. Ok, Jack thought, this is going to be tough. He went and sat on Bridge's bed, "Sky you can't do this, now, more than ever, we need to be a team, we need to bring him to justice, for Syd."

Sky sat up on his bed and looked over at Jack, "Oh don't worry I'll help bring him in, but after that I'm outta here."

Jack gasped in shock at Sky's words, surely that couldn't mean what he thought it meant, "you'll leave SPD," Sky nodded decisively, "but it's your life Sky, you've always been about SPD and nothing else."

Shoulders slumping dejectedly, Sky admitted, "that all changed the minute Syd died Jack, I can't stay here without her."

Realisation struck Jack at that moment. Sky had loved Syd more than just as friends. No wonder he was so angry. He made a decision, something that he thought may help or it may not, but he knew at that moment that Sky would be the right person to do this and not him.

"Listen Sky," he began tentatively, "Cruger asked me as the leader of the team to do the eulogy at Syd's funeral, you know what kind of person she was and all that. I don't think I'm the right person, I think you would be, because you knew her so much better than I did and for so much longer," Sky looked up at him, face pale, "Will you do it?" the red ranger asked.

There was silence for a few seconds, and then Sky nodded his head but said nothing. Jack stood up and sympathetically placed his hand on his shoulder also saying nothing. He then left the room, realising he had got nowhere with the situation between Sky and Z but knowing that now wasn't the time. Walking back to the common room he found Bridge and Z sat on the couch staring at what he didn't know. When Bridge saw him he jumped up and asked, "how is he?" Z raised her head but remained sat down.

"He's a mess," Jack decided not to say anything about Sky leaving SPD, that was up to Sky to tell everyone. "I just never realised," he said sadly.

"Realised what?" asked Z curiously.

Jack looked her in the eye, "I never realised that he loved Syd the way he does."