Author: Jadelyn Ja Lee

Story: Through Her Eyes

Disclaimer: I own no one.

Time Frame: During Badge

Summary: AJ's father was the greatest ranger ever….now she's taking on the mantle he gave up. Power Rangers SPD.

Gruumm: I have an assignment for you on Earth.
Morgana: Oh, I hate going down there. It's so happy.

To say AJ was in a bad mood was an understatement. For one, there was a stupid suicidal alien on the loose taking the badges of the SPD rangers. AJ considered him crazy cause no one in there right mind would knowingly piss Cruger off and that was exactly what Icthior was doing—and on purpose to boot.

Second, her boyfriend was more or less out cold in the infirmary and the doc refused to let her see him or her two friends who also had been on the receiving end of Icthior's jealousy.

Third, she was attempting to organize some holiday festivities and the planning was going haywire.

Fourth, she'd been running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get all the holiday gifts for her family and friends.

Finally, she'd been ordered to remain inside SPD which was not boding well for her sanity.

"I'm going crazy in here, Daddy!" AJ knew she was whining but at this point, she didn't care. Her father chuckled.

"Now you know how I felt when I got stuck in the stupid suit." He smirked. She stuck her tongue out but he laughed it off. He, along with her Aunt Kat and Aunt Kim had traveled to NewTech to help with her holiday season plans since she was grounded. Kim looked up with a sympathetic look.

"They still won't let you see Sky either, I take it?" she asked. AJ angrily slashed off a name from her list.

"No. The overbearing hyena says he needs his rest, even though Cruger and Kat keep going in and talking to him and Syd and Bridge." She growled. Katherine Cranston frowned.

"Have the red and yellow rangers been in to see them?" she asked. AJ nodded, continuing her attack on the poor list. Tommy reached over to take the pen from her but sensing his plan, AJ gave him a look.

"Daddy, now is not the time to attempt logic and/or peace." She snarled, brandishing the penin his face. Tommy hastily put his hands up in the universal surrender position and her aunts exchanged amused looks.

"Seems the pen is mightier than the sword." Kim whispered to Katherine who stifled a laugh. Having heard what she said, AJ glowered. Kimberly leaned back, an laughing expression on her face.

"You know, when you do that you look just like your dad back in high school." She commented lightly. Tommy and AJ turned to her simultaneously.

"I do?"

"She does?"

Kim nodded. "Uh-huh."

"Awesome." Tommy whispered. Kimberly and Katherine laughed.

"You know, you're probably the only man alive who's proud his daughter has his glower." Katherine observed, much to the delight of Kimberly who cackled at his expression. AJ sat back and watched as he aunts did what they did best—tortured her father.

"She's my oldest, my precious. Of course I'm gonna be proud she's like me." He argued half-heartedly. He knew the former pink rangers were attempting to bait him and normally he would have just ignored it, but AJ was finally relaxing. Kimberly smiled wickedly.

"'My precious?' Should we start calling you Gollum, now?" she teased. AJ sat up.

"If he's Gollum, then I'm the ring of power right?" she asked, mind working at a million miles an hour. Katherine nodded hesitantly—it was a well-known fact in the family that AJ was just like her father when she started baiting others.

"Then maybe you shouldn't be so blasé. After all, I bestow upon the wearer the power of invisibility and the power to control the other rings." She pointed out. Tommy grinned proudly at her as Katherine and Kimberly scowled, trying to figure out a comeback to that piece of logic.

"So dad got the power of invisibility from you, not the dino gem, is that it?" JD asked from the door-way. Jack and Z were standing just behind him, looking bemused.

"I traveled back in time and gave the power to the Dino Gem before dad ever found it." She shot back with no hesitation. The look on her face and the confidence in her tone would have given others pause, but not her twin.

"So I suppose you were there at the time of the dinosaurs?" he asked. AJ frowned, thinking that over.

"Huh?" JD smirked.

"I am the master." He replied just as Tommy realized something.

"Now wait just a minute! I am not old!" he scowled at his oldest son. JD smirked as Katherine, Kimberly, and AJ giggled.

"I never said you were." He replied. Tommy frowned.

"You said she was there at the time of the dinosaurs." He clarified. JD nodded as Jack and Z exchanged looks.

"Yeah I did. I never said when you found the dino-gems though, did I?" he asked, causing Tommy to frown again. By this time, the three female rangers were cackling like mad. Tommy scowled at them as Jack stepped forward.

"Sorry to break this up, but Commander Cruger has given Sky visitor access. You can go see him now." He told AJ and within a few seconds the lunar ranger was gone. Tommy blinked in confusion.

"Were we like that when we dated?" he asked the two pink rangers. Katherine and Kimberly didn't answer but exchanged a look that just screamed 'well, he is Tommy.'

"About time! I was going nuts in here!" Sky groaned when he saw his girlfriend. She glared at the doctor.

"I would have been here sooner if Simba over there hadn't said no." she groused. Sky smiled slightly, wincing with the pain. Her features softened and she began fussing over him. Nearby, Syd and Bridge grinned as Jack, Z, JD, Tommy, Katherine, and Kimberly walked in. Kimberly and Katherine grinned when they saw their niece leaning over her boyfriend.

AJ had had three serious boyfriends in the past. The first had been Jon Park, Adam and Hayley's oldest son. The second was Brian Cranston, the son of Billy and Katherine. And the third was Jason and Kimberly's son, Logan. When the relationships had ended, some of the family had become slightly worried that AJ was too much like her father and wouldn't settle down until she was forced too. AJ herself wasn't worried. She cared about all three men but knew in her heart they would never be able to handle the Oliver in her. Now it seemed she had found someone who could. Both women prayed this relationship would work because they'd never seen AJ so happy and carefree.

Tommy sighed. He'd known the day would come when AJ would cease being his little girl and he thought he was prepared for it. But watching her with Sky, he realized how wrong he was. He wasn't ready to give her up yet. As if sensing his thoughts, AJ looked over at him and flashed him a brilliant smile. He smiled back. Well, if she's gonna move on, at least its with a good guy.

JD watched AJ and Sky, hiding the pain he felt. He wasn't ready to give her up. She was his sister, damnit! His twin! There should be nothing to come between them. But there was. Logically, he knew that she would always be his sister but if she continued the path with Sky, he knew it would never be the same. He felt a hand squeeze his shoulder and glanced at his father. JD sighed softly. They were both losing her and there wasn't a damn thing they could do about it.

AJ was waiting just outside the Command Center when B Squad walked out from their de-briefing. It was a week after the final confrontation with Icthior and the rangers were all completely healed. It was also Christmas Eve, which this year fell on the sixth day of Hanukah. She smiled brilliantly as JD bounced slightly next to her. He had no idea what AJ had been planning but knew that it had to be good. The rangers smiled quizzically at them.

"Hey guys. Want to go play some lightball?" Syd asked. AJ shook her head.

"All six of you need to report to B Commons. Immediately." She ordered. The rangers exchanged confused looks as Cruger, Kat, and Boom joined them.

"What is going on, Lieutenant?" Cruger asked curiously. He and Kat had both gotten a short summons to join B Squad in there common area for a surprise. He was curious as to what she had planned.

"Come on." She ordered, walking away. The rangers exchanged looks, shrugged, and followed the grinning lunar ranger.

"Sky, do you have any idea what's going on?" Jack asked the blue ranger. He shook his head, a small frown on his face.

"None. I know she's been whispering with her dad and aunts for a couple weeks now but I have no clue what she has planned." He whispered back. Jack frowned as they came upon the hall that led to B Commons. AJ stopped and held up a hand.

"Hold on, let me make sure it's ready." She ordered and hurried ahead and through the doors. A minute later the doors opened again and she poked her head out the door.

"It's alright. Come on in." she called before disappearing again. Exchanging slightly exasperated glances, B Squad hurried to the door. When the automatic door opened, however, all six members of B Squad, plus Cruger, Kat and Boom halted in their tracks.

B Commons had been decorated in green, white, red, and gold streamers. Holiday decorations, including a menorah, were everywhere. But the best thing in the common room wasn't the decorations, it was the people.

"DADDY!" Syd yelled, flying forward and nearly tackling an older man in an expensive suit. John Drew laughed and twirled his little girl around while his wife Alison warned him to be careful. That was all anyone else needed. The crowd surged forward to grab at the startled rangers.

"Bridge! Oh sweetheart…" Bridgett Carson whispered as she wrapped her arms around her only son. Joseph Carson grabbed his fifteen-year-old daughterJoan and together the Carson's wrapped the misty-eyed green ranger in a family hug.

"Schuyler!" Vanessa Tate-McLean exclaimed, grabbing him. Michael McLean laughed andwrapped his arms aroundboth of them. Seventeen-year-old Terra Tate stood to the side, watching as her older brother was crushed under their mother and stepfather.

JD grinned and grabbed Zoë and Camyrn in a three-way hug. The girls squealed as Dylan and Caleb tackled their older brother. Nearby, Tommy, an arm around a beaming Kat, just laughed.

Kat herself was talking animatedly with her sister Katrina, her brother-in-law Felix, and her nieces and nephews. Out of their immediate family, the two women were the only ones to survive Gruumms' attack on their home world.

Boom was being fussed over by his own parents. Both kept asking him about his current projects and if he'd found himself a girlfriend yet.

"Jack!" George Miller boomed, grabbing the young man into a three-way hug with his wife Janice. Jack looked at his former foster-parents, the only decent ones he'd had, in stunned disbelief.

"How…?" he asked helplessly as he accepted a hug from his former foster sister, George and Janice's daughter Meredith. They laughed.

"That Lunar ranger of yours." Janice whispered, hugging him again. Jack swallowed a lump in his throat and glanced around for AJ who was talking quietly with Z and a small group of people.

"Z, I know you've never met them, even though you've wanted to. These are your grandparents, Edward and Gabriella Delgado." She introduced them. Z's eyes went wide as she gazed on her father's parents. They beamed down at her, tears in their eyes.

"You were born to my oldest son, David." Gabriella whispered. Z swallowed as a semi-familiar man stepped forward. He was tall, and extremely well built—she could see the muscles straining against his button down top. Unnoticed by all, AJ quietly slipped away to join her own family.

"I'm your uncle, Danny Delgado." He told her in a voice that was much too gentle and soft to come from such a big frame. The woman next to him laughed softly at Z's expression.

"I'm your Aunt Kendall." She introduced herself, pushing two little girls to stand in front of her.

"I'm Rose. I'm twelve." The taller one smiled.

"I'm Lilly and I'm ten." The other added. Z blinked rapidly as she suddenly realized where she knew Danny from.

"You were…" she trailed off, glancing at the girls. Danny smiled secretly.

"Yes, I was." He agreed. She blinked again as Edward shot his son an affectionate look.

"Runs in the family." He whispered, pride shining in his eyes as he gazed at his son and granddaughter.

"You've done good, kiddo." David Trueheart whispered as he hugged his neice. AJ smiled as her father nodded.

"You can say that again." He agreed. Cruger was off in the corner, talking to two former comrades AJ had been able to dig up. AJ glanced at the naked tree in the corner. She smirked and grabbed Caleb.

"Can you whistle?" she whispered, glancing at the crowd. Her brother smirked and a minute later all activity in the room stopped as they turned to look at the grinning lunar ranger.

"This is all nice and everything but there's a tree that's naked in the corner." She announced to general laughter.

"Since we couldn't leave base for the holidays, the holidays have come to the base. Everyone was asked to bring one piece of decoration that was not lights or garlands. Those are sitting in a box over there." She pointed. "I have decorations for B squad, Commander Cruger, Kat, and Boom. So lets decorate that tree!" She announced. Everyone cheered.

If that tree were sentient, it'd be cowering right about now. AJ thought humorously to herself as her teammates came over and there families converged on the plant.

"AJ, this is amazing." Jack told her, glancing back at his foster parents. George was deep in conversation with all the men. From what he could hear, they were discussing how best to decorate the tree. The women however, weren't paying any attention to the men and already had a strand of lights hung up. Jack stifled a laugh as the men finally noticed what the women were doing.

"Here, I made these for you guys." She handed each ranger a color coded box. Kat and Boom also received boxes. They glanced at her and she motioned to the gifts.

"Well, open them. They can't go on the tree looking like that." She informed them. Exchanging smiles, the nine SPD personel opened the boxes and took out the two decorations.

"Oh, AJ, they're wonderful." Syd gushed, holding up her ornaments. The first was a pink clay badge with a picture of Syd in the center. Underneath it had her name. Each of the other rangers had one just like it only with there own pictures, names and colors. Kat and Boom's were both white.

"These don't go on the tree, they're for your personal use." AJ told them as the group examined the second piece in their boxes. It was just like the first decoration except it had a picture of the entire team, all ten members, and Space Patrol Delta underneath. Each was painted gold and the back had Christmas (or Hannukah in Bridge's case) 2025 etched on the back. Z suddenly hugged AJ.

"Thank you." She whispered, tears in her eyes. AJ smiled and hugged the yellow ranger back.

"Happy Holidays, Z." She whispered back, knowing the brunette wasn't just talking about the ornaments.

"Hey! Guys, we need some help over here!" George suddenly called in a playful yell. Jack grinned.

"Come on guys!" he called, racing over to help decorate the tree. As the rangers and science technicians went to help, Sky and AJ stayed back. Sky hugged her tightly, kissing her deeply. She leaned against him with a happy sigh.

"Merry Christmas, Sky." She whispered, smiling up into his shining eyes. He leaned down for another kiss but was stopped when Jack, Bridge, and several of the guys started catcalling. Glancing at them, AJ quickly grabbed a bowl of popcorn that was supposed to be used to make popcorn strings and flung it into the group. Jack picked up a piece of popcorn that had landed on his shoulder. He glanced from Bridge to Caleb and then back to AJ who was standing alone. Sky could sense what was about to happen and was slowly backing away. The red ranger grinned wickedly as the group slowly advanced on the lunar ranger. AJ's eyes widened and she looked around for her boyfriend who by this time was hiding behind his mother. Her eyes narrowed.

"Traitor." She muttered and he shrugged apologetically. She turned back to the group and started to panic when she saw the maniacal gleam in Jacks eyes.

"Uh…can't we talk about this?" she asked desperately.

"Get her!"

End Notes: Okay, I know it's been about a month and I am so sorry. School ended on the fifth of May and I headed home. At the time, I didn't realize that we were having issues with our keyboard: the bottom row of letters and the space bar weren't working. Once we got that finished, our mouse started acting up. We just got a new mouse last week, when I was babysitting for my mom's coworker. Technically, I'm not even home now. I'm housesitting for Keltic Kat and her mother for two weeks (Keltic Kat's a new writer here; she's like my little sister so treat her nicely ya'll).

Any who Keltic Kat has given me full use of the computer and so I'm finally typing up the new chapter. So here you go!

Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the What A Character Power Ranger Fan fiction Awards! I won second place for Best OC-Ranger Romance for Sky/AJ and Best Portrayal of a Power Ranger for Tommy. I also won (drum roll please!) first place for Best Incomplete Story and Best Original Character for AJ! Thank you so much!