Disclaimer: Here's my few fics for the Ars Amatoria Romance challenge. I've chosen to focus on Bridge and Z as I really like these two as a couple. So, here's my few. Not mine, someone else's. Please, read and review. Angel Mouse, October, 2005.

Ars Amatoria Romance Challenge: Worst Case Scenario

Couple: Bridge/Z

Set: Z POV - Missing

My hearts pounding a mile a minute as we ran to where Bridge's signal had come from last. We burst through the bunch of shipping containers that were around to find nothing. No criminal, no Green Ranger, no nothing. There was just a black scorch mark on the ground. It's then we realise the horrible truth.

Bridge is gone.

Back at base Sky and Jack head off to talk to Crugar but I can't think, I can't concentrate and I just don't know what to do. We all know this job is dangerous and we all take as much care as we can but to have Bridge just taken from us like this is disturbing. As I flop down on my bed, hugging my pillow to me, I try to come to terms with it.

Bridge is the one reason that I got through the first few days at SPD. He was the one that went out of his way to make me feel at home. He's the one that accepted me with out question and became the friend I desperately needed until Jack joined us.

Over time I've come to respect and even like Bridge, probably more than I really should considering the rules about fraternisation between cadets. But there's something so special about Bridge that when he smiles at me, I feel that it's just for me.

They say that the Pink Ranger is usually the heart of a Ranger team, but not this time, this time it's a quiet, sweet, slightly strange sometimes Green Ranger. I see how Sky looks after him without him realising it like a big brother does. I saw how Jack slowly readjusted his opinion of him so that he now respects him more than he used to. I see how Syd goes to him if she wants to have a heart to heart with someone and knows that I'm not really the best to talk to. He is the heart of this team, and to have him taken from us hurts.

It's then that I realise that Bridge has, somehow, stolen my heart while I wasn't even looking. Heaven help me, I love the space cadet.

Then and there, I make a promise to myself to do anything and everything to get him back with us, his family. And then when he's back, well, we'll see.

Because I am not prepared to accept the worst case scenario that'll mean we need a new Green Ranger, I'm not!