Theme Challenge: Bridge and Z
From the Ars Amatoria Ranger Romance Theme Challenge
Challenge #10B: Perception
Disclaimer: No, still don't own them, as much as I'd like to.
A/N: Wow, I haven't updated this for awhile. Writer's block, school, new obsession with The Office (US version)…shameless plug: if you're at all interested in The Office, check out my fic On Receptionists and Road Trips. It's not complete yet, but I'm pretty proud of it.
Anyway, back to Power Rangers. Um…set anywhere in the canon season. Yep. Just a short little thing that came out at 130 in the morning…
Perception
Z isn't as obvious as everyone thinks she is. She isn't so blind.
She can see the way he looks at her sometimes, can see the open naked admiration, the slow-burning glances after she smiles at him or touches him. She's not stupid. She knows what those glances mean.
She knows that when he throws her those glances like so many bright candles, she wants to lose herself in his arms, bury her fingers in his hair, tilt her head back and let him kiss her senseless…
But she also knows that she is absolutely terrified of what that would mean, what it would change, what it would do to them.
She is terrified that she might be wrong, that he actually does not want her as much as she knows she wants him. She's so terrified that she's been misreading him this whole time. More than anything, she is afraid that if she ever returned one of those burning looks, and he ever saw the her deep inside, he'd turn away, cold, like rain in the winter.
She doesn't think that she could stand rejection from him. So she lets everyone think she's oblivious, that she's just his friend, that her body doesn't respond to every little touch.
It's all a matter of perception, really. She isn't so oblivious. She isn't so blind.
Everybody just needs to think she is.
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