Quantum Red Blues
By: PernDragonrider
Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers. Not making any money off of this; don't sue.
A/N: Warning: This story will eventually contain a slash relationship. If you don't like reading about a relationship between two men; then hit the back button on your browser right now. If you enjoy slash then read on and enjoy! The plot for this tale almost literally jumped into my brain while just relaxing and playing some music on my media player. The inspiration for this tale comes from an old tune by the Bay City Rollers, entitled "I Only Wanna Be With You". When the song started playing I got a quick flash of an unorthodox Ranger couple in my brain that just wouldn't leave. This is the result. Written for the Live Journal AWDT 2nd Birthday fic exchange. This one is for you XRachX. Enjoy!
Chapter Six – Wedding Bells & A Surprising DiscoveryAlmost five months after the second attack on the Silver Guardians and Collins Industries compound, Jason and Eric were still at odds with each other. Both men acted professional while serving together but there were no friendly reactions to be seen between the two at all.
Carson Dale, Jack Lee, Alan Danvers, Wes, and a few of the others Guardians that knew of their previous relationship were meeting, secretly, down in the extensive tunnel system under the complex. "This can't go on anymore." Wes said in a defeated tone of voice. "I don't have any place else to rotate Jason to that he won't come into direct contact with Eric at some point in time. I don't know what happened, but whatever it was I've never seen either of them like this before. If it weren't for the fact that Tommy is handling the mess up in Reefside right now; I'd call him to come down and see if he could find out from Jason what's going on. I'm getting married in less than forty-eight hours and I can't go off and leave this situation like it is right now. One or the other will kill someone if I do."
"They're both standing up in the wedding party, right?" Carson Dale asked with a devilish and very impish gleam in his eye. "Why not maneuver it to where they have to spend the entire night in each others company, Wes? Jason would rip out his heart and give it to Kimberly if she ever asked for it; we all know that and have seen just how far he'll go to make her happy. Eric would do the same for you. Get your wife in on this Wes, she'll know how to handle it. I can promise that. My twin sister is a conniving bitch when she's match-making."
"Good idea, Carson." Danvers said surprising everyone as much as when he'd come to Wes about the situation because he and Jason didn't get along at all. "Look I know that Scott and I don't see eye to eye on everything, but I can't and won't see him miserable all the time. All of you know I don't condone guy with guy relationships, but seeing the devastation in Jason's eyes whenever Eric enters a room and ignores him is driving me insane. It doesn't help that the exact reverse is true for Eric too. Why the hell can't we just lock them in the damned gym until they work this out between them? That's what most guys do when they're having problems with each other. That's what Jase and I did. Sorry Wes, you didn't hear this cause I want to keep my job and I know Jase wants to keep his. Three months after he got here, we snuck into the gym during our off duty time and went at each other tooth and nail. Both of us wound us seeing Doc afterwards, but I have a very healthy respect for Jason's martial arts abilities now. He wiped the floor with me."
"Alan," Carson said in exasperation and with a little teasing note to his voice too. "The man was the first fucking Red Power Ranger on Earth, the first! No wonder he wiped the floor with you. Shit I was the one that had to pass his hand-to-hand skills when he joined. I've seen what he can do. You never stood a chance."
Wes had walked slightly away from the group and picked up one of the phones in the tunnel. Using his clearance he soon had an outside line and was speaking with Kimberly while Carson and Jack teased Danvers about going up against Jason in the gym.
"Hi, Wes!" Kim gushed as she answered her cell phone. "I'm seeing you tonight at the rehearsal dinner, sweetie, what is so important that you needed to get in touch with me now?"
"Hi, gorgeous!" Wes replied with a smile that he couldn't help. "Listen I need to pick your brain about something. They're still at loggerheads and nothing we've done is helping. Can you think of anything that might help out?"
"Yeah," Kim replied with a smile. "Stuff both of them into a room, lock the door, and let them beat the shit out of each other until neither one can move; then leave them there until they actually start talking civil to each other. Wes, I'm serious about this. Jason is really hurting over this thing with Eric. He took the plunge and got burned again. We're out of options, Wes. I've tried everything I know to get them back together and the only thing I ever get from Jason is the line, and I'm quoting here. Never again, Kimmy, I will not put myself through that hell for anyone ever again."
"Point taken, my love." Wes said with a frown. "I can't take the chance that they will kill each other or I'd do it in a heartbeat, but maybe when we get back from our honeymoon; if they're still not talking I'll do it."
Wes hung up the phone with a quick goodbye and returned to where the other three were quietly talking. "Kim said to lock them in a room and don't let them out until they start talking civil to each other. Can't take the chance that one of the will kill the other or I'd do it in a heartbeat." Wes's voice was dejected, angry, and yet filled with his love for his fiancé at the same time.
"Shit," Danvers said looking at the clock on the wall. "I've got to run, guys. I was supposed to relieve Jason in the Ops Center fifteen minutes ago. See ya at the wedding guys!" Danvers took off running at top speed for the nearest exit to the Ops Center and made it to replace Jason in under five minutes.
"You're twenty minutes late, Alan." Jason said with a teasing tone as he looked up when Danvers tapped him on the shoulder. "Should write you up for tardiness, but I'm assuming you've been over in the mess hall helping to get Wes's bachelor party set up. At least that's what I'm putting your lateness down to instead of to you, Wes, Jack, and Carson plotting behind my back in the tunnels to get me hooked back up with someone I don't want to ever speak with again." Jason's voice went from teasing to completely serious with a sharp, biting edge of anger in it as he spoke about the meeting in the tunnels.
"Shit, you eavesdropped didn't you?" Alan Danvers said as he paled slightly and slid into the chair next to Jason. "We're not plotting, but worried, Jase. You're not the same guy since the last attack. You're surly, quick to anger, and down right mean to everyone, guy. That's not the Jason Scott I locked horns with two months after you joined up.
"I've told everyone and now I'm telling you, Danvers." Jason said with quickly rising anger taking over his voice. "I will not put myself through that hell ever again. I rolled the dice and crapped out. That's all there is too it and I won't look anymore. Trey's pie in the sky bonding isn't going to happen and I'm just going to have to face the fact that I won't see many more tomorrows. Why do you think I'm confined to desk duty all the time now? I've had it with everything, Alan. If it weren't for the fact that I promised Kimmy I'd be at her wedding and then promised Tommy I'd be at his; I'd have already given up and gone. Doc and Billy can't do much more to keep me functioning like a human being. They both say six months is all they can guarantee without me finding a current or former Ranger that I can be bonded to. Not happening, Alan, and I've finally faced the truth; one hundred and eighty one days from now I won't give damn one way or the other anymore because I'll be dead and gone, forever. Now get your sorry ass logged in so I can go play nice, nice and happy, happy for Wes and Kimberly at that fucking dinner tonight. Keep your mouth shut about the six months too, Danvers, or I'll send you to hell to be waiting for me when I get there. Kimmy and Wes are getting married day after tomorrow and then Tommy is marrying Haley in three months. I've already turned in my resignation, effective the day after Tommy's wedding. I'm going to get on my bike, ride off, and never look back at anything. I'm just going to disappear and that's all everyone will ever know until my body gets found where it dropped." Jason jumped up from his chair and stalked from the room leaving behind a very stunned, confused, and worried Alan Danvers in his wake. Neither man knew that Eric had come into the room and heard everything Jason had said. Danvers logged into the Ops Center and automatically logged Jason out without even being able to see the board for the tears he didn't even know he was shedding.
Eric spun around and stalked to the infirmary. He hunted the building until he found Doc Allen in his office on the second floor. Eric stormed into the room, slamming the door, and confronted the jovial doctor in his lair. "What the fuck does Scott mean he's got six months left? You told me he was just suffering from an old injury and would recover to take normal duties again in three months. His fucking resignation is on my desk for approval, Doc! What's going on?" Eric's voice wasn't filled with anger, but with hurt, confusion, and shock.
"Jason is suffering from an old injury, Eric." Doc said calmly and quietly as he watched Eric run out of anger driven steam and collapse into the chair across from his desk. "Billy has been here everyday for the past five months and both of us have come up with the same results time after time. Jason is dying, Eric. The small remains of power left in him from his time as a Ranger is slowly, painfully, and inexorably killing him. Without finding his match and bonding through the Morphin Grid, Jason will continue to deteriorate and eventually even that bonding process won't stop his death. He's given up searching for anyone, after your relationship with him, and he has already told Billy where his body can be found six months and one day from today. The day we told him that was all the time he had left to live. He's twenty-seven years old and he won't live to see his twenty-eighth birthday because that day is seven months away. He's agreed to stay with the Guardians until after Tommy has married in three months. At that time he's leaving our care to go out and do what little he can to fulfill the dreams he's wanted for his life and can't have because of cruel twist of fate. I have him restricted to desk duty, indefinitely, because I don't want him stressed with standing a guard post or doing anything strenuous. The more stress he's under the faster the deterioration becomes. You're the cause of his giving up, Eric Myers. He told you when you started your relationship that it would be his last. You're the reason he's going to die alone. He won't even let Billy or me tell the rest of his teammates and friends. You are the only one he gave us permission to tell and that was because he knew you'd demand an explanation when he put his resignation on your desk this morning. You have three months to make up your mind, Eric. After that it will too late to save him at all. That's why he's leaving then. Three months from now the pain will be uncontrollable with any Earth based medicine we have. Right now it's partially under control because he's doped to the gills every day with pain medication injections. One when he gets here in the morning, one at his last break, and one he injects into himself at home every night just so he can sleep for three or four hours before he's woken up with pain again. Then he has to come back here and I knock him out with morphine until time for his shift to start."
"Three months." Eric said in a quiet voice filled with pain, anger, love, betrayal, confusion, and shock. Eric rose from the chair and walked from the room without ever seeing anyone has he made his way to his office, shut and locked the door, and then broke down crying. An hour later he was pulled from his grief by the ringing of his cell phone and office phones at the same time. "Myers here!" Eric snapped as he dash futilely at the tears running down his face.
"Eric its Wes." Wes said with some concern in his voice. "Everything all right at the base? The rehearsal is starting in ten minutes and my best man isn't here yet? There's not a problem is there?"
"No, Wes, no problems." Eric lied quickly while he still tried to get his tears under control and keep Wes from knowing that he was bawling like a baby just scant seconds before. "Sorry, I lost track of time while doing paperwork. I'm on my way out the door now. Sorry buddy, but you're getting the uniform cause I don't have time to change."
"Just get here, Eric." Wes answered with a teasing tone. "Kim you can quit calling his office phone, I caught him on his cell." Wes's voice was loud in Eric's ear but he never complained. "Get here soon and be safe, my friend." Wes said as he ended the call.
"FUCKING SHIT!" Eric said as he slammed his cell phone shut and dove for the door of his office. He ran all the way to his SUV, jumped inside, started the vehicle, and was roaring out of the lot within two minutes. The guard at the front gate saluted as he passed and Eric didn't even notice. His thoughts were of everything Doc had told him as well as of rushing to get to the large church where Wes and Kimberly were getting married in two days. Eric arrived at the church with a squeal of tires and he was already jumping from the barely stopped and parked SUV when he spotted Jason talking quietly with Rocky and his wife, Aisha, just outside the church.
"Glad to see that you've still got good reflexes, Commander." Jason said dryly as he looked to where the bumper of the large black SUV was centimeters from the back tire of his beloved Harley Davidson. "I wouldn't want to have to fill out the accident report and explain why my commanding officer ran over my bike."
"Can I speak with you, Jason, please?" Eric asked as he was snapped out of his rush and everything flew out of his mind except for Doc Allen's words about Jason's condition.
"I have nothing to say to you, Eric Myers." Jason said with a very frosty tone of voice. "Everyone is waiting for you inside, sir. I'll go and tell Commander Collins that you've arrived." Jason rose and was turning to walk up the steps into the church when Eric snapped.
"Corporal Scott!" Eric said with the sharpest tones he could manage. "You will speak with me if I have to haul your ass back to the base over my shoulder like a recalcitrant child. Now get your ass down here and speak with me, Corporal or I'll have your ass shoved so far down the promotions ladder you won't ever see private before you're fifty!"
"Fine, then I won't ever see private again, Commander!" Jason said with a very frosty tone even as he paled at Eric's words. "In case you're forgotten, sir, only Commander Collins has the right to give me orders today. I'm on his private guard detail. If you'll excuse me, Commander Myers, my primary detail has been left alone long enough." Jason spun and stalked into the church leaving a very confused and shocked Rocky and Aisha standing outside with a fuming Quantum Ranger.
"What was he talking with you about, Rocky?" Eric asked as he reined in his temper very quickly.
"He wanted to scoot by the house tonight and see the little ones." Aisha said with a smile for Eric. "Aisha DeSantos, Rocky's wife, and second yellow Ranger."
"That's all he wanted?" Eric asked with some surprise.
"He wanted his morpher back, Eric." Rocky said with a frown of concern. "He asked me if he could have it back in three months. Said it would be okay for me to bring it to him at Tommy's wedding or he'd swing by and get it the next day. Mumbled some shit about going back to where it all started for it to end. What's going on?"
"He's given up, Rocko." Tommy said sadly as he and Haley came outside with the others. "He's going to take the morpher and go to the ruins of the Power Chamber. He'll morph and die there the second he powers down. Billy contacted me with the news this morning before Jason told him and Doc Allen that they couldn't tell anyone except Eric about what's happening." Tears appeared in Tommy, Rocky, and Aisha's eyes as Tommy spoke of Jason's plans.
"The stubborn fool!" Eric said as he stormed past them only to be brought up short by Aisha getting in his way.
"You've already hurt him once, Quantum Ranger, you're not going to do it again." Aisha said with a growling tone that had both Rocky and Tommy moving to get between her and Eric. "You're the stubborn fool that threw away everything he had to offer you and now you're calling him stubborn? You've got some nerve mister!"
Rocky just bodily picked up his wife and hauled her away from the stunned into immobility Quantum Ranger. "Go after him, Eric." Rocky said as he held Aisha tightly to him. "If you care for him in the least, go after him and make him listen to you. Sha's right about one thing though, you'd better care for him someplace in that cold region you call a heart or else that we've lost him forever."
Eric looked between Rocky and Aisha with a hurt expression on his face and then he just collapsed to the steps as the tears started again. "I love the fucking bastard." Eric said through his sobbing. "I've loved him from the day we met. I was a fool, a frightened and stubborn fool because of what happened at work. I don't know how to tell him that I want him, need him, fuck I have to see him to even be able to breathe each day. I can't sleep, can't eat, or do anything remotely like functioning until I see his face walk into the base each day. Then I can go on and do what I have to until he leaves for the day."
"Then why haven't you told him that before now?" Wes asked from the door where he and the whole wedding party stood backing up Jason who was reeling in shock at Eric's admission. "Why did you even break it off with him the first place, Eric?"
"Couldn't deal with watching him die, Wes." Eric said quietly through his tears. He'd never turned at Wes's voice and was still staring at Jason's motorcycle. "There was a fucking terrorist bastard with a high-powered rifle, laser sighted, aimed at Jason's head. The stupid bastard shot my morpher and then fell to the ground. I knew he was dead then and there and that I'd lost something precious due to my own stupidity. When I found out it he wasn't dead. I couldn't deal with it anymore. I just reacted without thinking and lashed out at the one person I didn't want to hurt, him."
Wes looked over to where Jason was being supported by Tommy, Billy, and a man he'd never seen that was dressed in all black and gold with a large scar or tattoo that bisected his left eye with a dark black line. "Eric, there were two bunkers full of expert marksmen that couldn't have made the shot Jason did that day. No one, not one of us, knew how to stop the morphing process once it started. Jason shooting your morpher with his sidearm was a one in a million shot that the gods must have smiled upon because it worked. He morphed to save you in the first attack and put his life in danger. You did the same after the second one just five months ago. You're made for each other, my friend."
"He won't talk to me, Wes." Eric said with a dejected voice. "He's going to go running off after Tommy's wedding and die because of my stupidity and stubbornness. How can I live with knowing that I could have been the one, the one that could bond with him and keep him alive and whole? I can't Wes and if he dies something in me will die too, forever."
"Come, Quantum Time Force Ranger." The strange man stepped from where he was supporting a stunned and crying Jason to Eric's side. "I can determine if you are the one destined for Jason that the Grid will smile upon and bind your hearts and souls together for eternity. I am Trey, Lord of Triforia, and the Gold Ranger. Come, I will not hurt you."
Eric rose at Trey's insistence and followed him to where Jason stood crying into Tommy and Billy's arms. "Touch him, Quantum Ranger." Trey instructed calmly yet with a well of anticipation in his voice. Eric's arm rose and he touched Jason's left shoulder and gave a gentle squeeze. Jason immediately turned from Tommy and Billy and was soon engulfed in Eric's strong arms with his face buried into Eric's chest. His tears were soaking Eric's uniform but it didn't matter because Eric's own tears where wetting Jason's head as he looked down and spoke softly with love, tenderness, and truth in his voice. "I love you, Jason. Always have since the day we met and I always will from now until we're parted in death."
Trey smiled and the strained faces of everyone around lit up with smiles of happiness replacing frowns of anger and grief. Tears abounded as everyone flowed back into the church except for Trey, Tommy, Billy, Kimberly, and Wes. They stood with Jason and Eric until both of them were back in some semblance of emotional control. "The bonding has already started." Trey said with a very serious tone. "It started some time ago and only needs nurtured to grow into its fullness; however, this bonding must happen through the grid for both of you to continue growing old together. Jason needs to morph, not with my powers or the ones he's held before, but with the powers of the one he will bind himself too forever. Just as Eric must morph with Jason's powers he first held. That will bind them in the grid as well as reversing Jason's slow decline into death."
"Our morphers are DNA sequenced." Wes said with a shocked look at Jason and Eric holding onto one another and jerking in shock at Trey's words. "Jason can't use Eric's morpher, it won't respond to his voice or his DNA. Wait, maybe Billy can re-sequence it for Jason's use this one time?"
"If the grid approves of the bonding, Wes, it will be possible." Trey said with a stern tone. "There can be no changes made in the morphers or powers to accommodate Jason or Eric. Either the grid approves and all are saved or the grid denies the bonding and Jason must find another. Have faith, Red Time Force Ranger. The grid is the one that will make this possible. That and their faith and love in each other."
Eric removed his morpher and placed it around Jason's right wrist as he took Jason's tyrannosaurus morpher from Jason's trembling hand. Both shared a tender kiss with the other and then separated to stand side by side.
Jason brought the morpher to his mouth and called out, "Quantum Power" and shot his right arm skyward just as Eric pulled the morpher from behind his back and called out "Tyrannosaurus". Everyone watched with breaths held in hope, prayer, and power as the two men morphed without a problem. They were getting ready to power down when Trey spoke up; "Do not power down just yet. You must wear each other's mantle for a short time. The duration of this wedding rehearsal should suffice."
"You mean we have to stay morphed through this?" Eric asked from behind the helmet and armor of the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. "Well at least these damned spandex monstrosities are comfortable." His voice was teasing as he looked to Jason standing next to him. "Damn you look right eatable in my armor, Corporal."
"Right back at you, Commander." Jason teased as he turned and looked at Eric with a bright smile that was hidden behind the helmet. "Trey, can we at least take the helmets off?"
"No, unfortunately you cannot, Jason." Trey said with a stern voice. "You must stay morphed with each others powers for at least one Earth hour or more. Billy and I will scan and let you know when you can finally return the morphers to their rightful owners. I should warn you both that when one of you morphs after this, the other will immediately know and be drawn to your location."
"Well since I'm leaving in another day or two for my honeymoon; I can rest easy knowing that the Guardians are in good hands then. I was worried about leaving them down a person able to morph for extreme situations." Wes said with very good humor from where he and Kimberly stood arm in arm in the church doorway. Come on and let's get this over with. We'll hold dinner until you two can power down and eat with us."
There were tears in her eyes when she stepped forward, but Kimberly went straight to Jason in Eric's armor. "I'd have missed you, big brother. We'd have all missed you badly. Now we've got two reasons to celebrate tonight. I am so glad that I decided to have a band for the rehearsal dinner too. Now I can see another couple dance together for the first time. Come on, we're holding up everything out here crying. I probably look a mess now."
"You're gorgeous as always, love." Wes said with a very serious and loving tone as everyone trooped into the church. The minister was slightly taken aback at having two morphed Red Rangers performing the duties of best man and groomsman, but he just went about the rehearsal without missing a beat.
Later that night in the small nightclub Kimberly and Wes had rented out for their rehearsal dinner, everyone watched as Eric and Jason danced together. Kim and most of them had tears in their eyes as the words of the song flowed over the two men entwined on the dance floor. It was a perfect song that Kimberly and Trini had picked for them to dance to. You Made Me Believe In Magic by The Bay City Rollers played through the large speakers on the stage while Jason and Eric swayed together to the beat; talking quietly.
"We're making a right public spectacle of ourselves, aren't we, my love?" Eric whispered into Jason's ear as the two slowly swayed to the music.
Jason shivered as Eric's breath tickled his ear and replied in a whisper that had Eric shivering as well. "Perhaps we are, love; but I wouldn't care if everyone was having an orgy around us right now. I'm where I belong and you're where you belong. In each other's arms. That's all that matter for now. Later on, I'll show you just how much I love you, Eric Myers Quantum Ranger."
"I know I love you, Jason Scott, Mighty Morphin Red and Gold Zeo Ranger." Eric answered and smiled as he could feel both of their reactions to their words of love. "Think we can sneak out of here and get home early, my beloved?"
"I think Wes and Kim won't miss us, much, my soul." Jason said as the song stopped and the two returned to their seats.
"I can't wait until the wedding, Trini smiled as he looked at all the assembled Rangers around the intimate club that Wes and Kimberly had rented out. "All those guys in tuxes remind me of the penguins at the zoo."
"Me too, Trini." Tanya answered with a smile as she watched the room and smiled when she saw her husband, Adam Park, talking with Rocky, Tommy, Billy, and Zack across the room. "Penguins are pretty, though; but I'd have to say that I've never seen penguins as gorgeous as the guys that will wearing those tuxedos day after tomorrow."
"You can say that again, girlfriend." Aisha said and smiled as she saw Rocky across the room. "It's a good thing I love Rocky so much or else that he might just have competition for my attentions that day. All I can say is; WOW!"
Jason and Eric made a quick exit and both of them were anxious to get back to Eric's house. Eric beat Jason there and was surprised until he heard Jason's motorcycle pulling into the drive and around his large SUV. He climbed out and watched as Jason dismounted with his muscles bunching under his riding leathers very nicely and his leathers clung tightly to his very shapely ass.
"Enjoying the view, Commander?" Jason asked teasingly and wriggled enticingly before turning to face Eric's smiling face.
"Very much, Corporal." Eric replied with a smoky sultry tone. "Seeing your ass displayed so well has been one of the highlights of my life these past five months. Just seeing you every day at work has kept me going with the hope that we could possibly work this mess out. I'm sorry for taking my own fears out on you, Jason. I was terrified you were dead and it was my fault."
"It's in the past, Eric." Jason said with an answering sensual tone. "I'm a little later than you because I thought I'd get us something to celebrate with. I stopped by my place and grabbed something that I've had for a while now. I've got a fifth of Jack Daniels that's been languishing in my grandmother's house since 1956. That's the date on the tax seal. So it should pack enough of a kick to give us a good buzz, if we're so inclined to indulge anyway."
The two men went into the house hand in hand. Soon they were both wearing comfortable robes and not much more as they sat together on the couch and indulged in two shots of the now very potent Jack Daniels Black Label Whiskey. Mellow and feeling very good the two were watching TV when Eric started caressing Jason's legs under his robe. Jason responded to the caresses by opening his legs and giving Eric room to explore further. He reached over to the coffee table and just grabbed the bottle. He took a generous mouthful of whiskey and then set the bottle back on the table. His hands free he reached out and pulled Eric to lie on top of him as he shared a deep tongue kiss while also sharing the mouthful of whiskey he still had. Both moaned as they were taking their time arousing the other to the heights of passion.
Jason again took a large mouthful from the bottle and shared it with his commanding officer, lover, and the man that was more precious to him than his own life. Eric moaned as Jason again initiated a long and searing kiss that ended only when both needed oxygen in their lungs. Chests heaving in tandem, Eric rose lithely to his feet and held his hand out to Jason.
"I've made love to you many time, Jason, my soul." Eric said with a tone that pure sex and desire. "Now I want you to make love to me, beloved. Come on, the bed awaits and I don't want to drive you wild and be driven wild by you on that narrow couch."
Jason took Eric's hand and led him to the bedroom, snagging the whiskey bottle as he went by. He took another large mouthful and again shared it with his lover as he slipped the robe from his nude body. He trailed whisky-covered lips all over Eric's broad chest and rock hard abs as worked his way down to Eric's quickly filling manhood. Jason grabbed the bottle and took in a large mouth full and then without stopping took Eric's now turgid erection into his mouth.
Eric gasped as the burning of the alcohol was further enhanced by Jason's tongue teasing him to further hardness. Jason bobbed his head as he started sucking in earnest on Eric's cock. Both were moaning as they found out another dimension to the bonding they'd done earlier that day. Eric could taste the whiskey that Jason had in his mouth and he could also feel the pleasure Jason was getting from doing this for him. Jason could feel Eric's rising pleasure at the slight burn of the whiskey on his penis and Jason's oral attention. A few minutes later, Jason was rewarded with the results of Eric's orgasm mingling with the whiskey in his mouth. He kept holding his mouth over Eric's pulsing rod until everything was milked from it and then he slid sensually up Eric's completely relaxed frame to share the mingled whiskey and semen with his lover. Eric eagerly accepted the shared kiss and everything else as he pulled Jason's muscular form to him and slowly stripped the robe from the man that had just taken him to the heights of pleasure in a way he'd have never thought of trying.
Breaking apart for needed air, Eric led Jason to the bed and then he lay down on the red silk sheets that complimented his darkness very well. Jason licked his lips and crawled over Eric with a sensual growl and both men almost whimpered as Jason's own well-formed manhood slid over Eric's flaccid one. Jason covered Eric with his large frame and the two were lost in a sensual haze of kisses and caresses until Eric's manhood was again rock hard and weeping slightly. Jason broke the kiss and then started nipping and licking down Eric's chest toward his groin. He bypassed the now freely weeping erection that strained and pulsed with every beat of his beloved's heart and continued to the inside of Eric's thighs. Eric gasped and spread his legs wider. He smiled sensually as he stretched his hands above his head and encountered the tube of lubricant that had resided under his pillow since meeting the first Red Ranger over two years ago. He slid the tube out and placed it into Jason's hand as the two locked eyes.
"I love you, Eric Myers." Jason whispered with all the love, desire, and passion his heart, mind and soul possessed.
"And I love you, Jason Scott." Eric replied with the same degree of emotions and feelings that Jason had conveyed to him.
The two made love to each once before the potent, long aged whiskey they'd consumed through out their foreplay and lovemaking sent them into an alcohol induced slumber in each other's arms. The next morning, both men groaned as the birds outside and the sunlight streaming through the window cause the night's indulgences to bring forth one mother of a hangover in both of them.
"I am never drinking again." Jason moaned as he grabbed his head with both hands as even his own voice caused his head to throb even harder.
"AGGGHHH!!! SHIT!!!!" Eric screamed as his alarm clock started shrilling almost in his ear. He and Jason both moaned and groaned until they'd managed to shut it off the quickest way possible. Eric jerked it up and was trying to find the buttons when Jason wrenched from his hands and threw it as hard as he could away from them. The alarm clock went sailing out the open door and then was pulled up short as the plug was pulled from the wall. I dropped to the carpeted floor with a dull thud that was covered with sighs of relief from both men.
"Coffee!" Jason whispered loudly. "I want coffee! Lots and lots of coffee!"
Both men staggered up and made it to the large attached bathroom and proceeded to kneel before the porcelain god for a good ten minutes before they were both bleary eyed and staring at each other. "No more booze for either of us, love." Eric said as he pulled himself and Jason to their feet and they slowly made their way to the kitchen. Eric had his coffee pot programmed to start every morning fifteen minutes before his alarm went off so there was hot coffee already waiting for them. Both of them sipped their steamy hot cups as they tried to toss off the effects of the alcohol from the night before. They both moaned as the phone shrilled loudly.
"Myers here!" Eric snapped into the phone with a snarl of mixed anger and pain. "Commander, it's Danvers. I'm worried about Corporal Scott, sir. He didn't show up for duty this morning and no one has seen him since he left with Commander Collins last night. Permission to send a detail to his apartment to make sure he's all right?"
"Permission denied, Danvers." Eric growled. "Scott is fine, he's with me right now. Tell Wes that he's got the fort today because if I come in I'm going to kill something or someone. The same goes for Corporal Scott, Lieutenant Danvers. We'll be back on duty the morning after the wedding."
The smile in Danvers' voice couldn't be missed as he replied jovially. "Commander Collins has already taken your duty shift, sir. He said something about you needed a day to collect yourself. Don't ever drink with Scott again, Commander. The guys say he can drink an elephant under the table. Goodbye sir and I'll pass the good news along to those that care."
"Danvers!" Eric snapped and regretted it as he head pounded even harder.
"Yes, sir?" Danvers asked with a clearly teasing tone of voice.
"As Doc Allen if he'd make a house call to my place, please, Lieutenant. Both Corporal Scott and myself seem to have come down with migraine headaches overnight. We'd appreciate having Doc check us out."
"One hangover special coming up, Sir." Danvers said with a smile as he cut the connection and looked over at the smiling faces of Billy Cranston, Doc Allen, Wes Collins, Jack Lee, and Carson Dale. "Doc they're really hurting over there. I think Jase broke out that bottle of 1956 tax sealed Jack Daniels he's been hoarding."
"I'll head over right away." Doc said as he left the office with a smile. "I'll also scan both of them to make sure that what we hoped for has come about, Billy. I would take you with me, but Eric can be a handful when he's hurting."
"So can Jason, David." Billy said with a smile as he accompanied the jovial man everyone knew as Doc.
"They did it?" Alan Danvers asked as he looked to Wes for confirmation.
"They bonded through the Morphin Grid, Danvers." Wes said with a chuckle as everyone looked around in shocked surprise. "I had to endure my entire wedding rehearsal with two Red Rangers in the wrong uniforms. I don't know how many times I called Eric, Jason or Jason, Eric; but we go through it in one piece without either one of them breaking anything."
The phone rang and Wes answered with a professional voice that bore a clearly discerned smile. "Silver Guardians Ops Center, Commander Collins speaking; how can I help you?"
"Wes, its Tommy." Tommy voice came through over the telephone lines very clearly. "How are they this morning?"
"Hung over and still at Eric's place, Tommy." Wes said with a very happy tone of voice and a delighted smile. "Doc and Billy are on their way over to see them right now. We should know if it worked, for sure, in about an hour. Oh and both of them took the day off too. First one either has taken in five months. If it weren't for me leaving day after tomorrow, I'd make them take the vacation time they're both due; but that will have to wait until Kim and I get back from our honeymoon. Then they can take theirs. From what I gathered from talking with Trey last night, the bonding is the equivalent of an Earth marriage ceremony and since all past and present Rangers witnessed it, it's binding everywhere. They're married. I've already changed the records in the computers here and spoke with Kimberly. She wants to, with their permission, to acknowledge their bonding right after our ceremony tomorrow. She spoke with the minister and he has no problems with doing it for them. She left the call up to you, Tommy. Do we or don't we acknowledge what happened yesterday?"
"We acknowledge it, Wes." Tommy said happily. "I've waiting years for him to find the one that would not only save him but love him too. They both deserve to have the world and us acknowledge the fact that they were bound together through the Morphin Grid for the rest of their lives. I just wish it could be done legally here in the states."
"We'll work on that, Tommy." Wes said thoughtfully as his dad came into the room with a happy smile on his face. "My father has some connections with the powers that be in both the state and the country. We'll definitely work on getting their bonding recognized for the marriage it was."
"That's already taken care of, son." Mr. Collins said with a stern but happy tone. "I just got off the phone with the governor. He's holding a press conference in two hours to recognize the legal marriage of the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger to the Quantum Time Force Ranger. He's not releasing their legal names, but he's going to publicly congratulate them and ask them to come to Los Angeles when they can. He will personally give them their legal marriage license and all he wants is chance to see them unmorphed once, just him, no one else will find out who they are."
"I heard, Wes!" Tommy gushed over the phone. "That's great and I'll be taping that press conference for them to have as a memento. They went and did the impossible yesterday and morphed with each other's powers. That is a miracle I never thought I'd witness."
"I'll see you tomorrow at the wedding, Tommy." Wes said and broke the connection. "Carson, make the announcement throughout the base and get the word to those that are off duty today. Eric and Jason tied the knot at 6:45 pm last night. They're officially a married couple and are to be treated with the same respect that all married Silver Guardians are given."
"Gladly, Commander." Carson said and left to carry out an order he was happy doing.
"This will complicate things, son." Mr. Collins said seriously as the others left.
"Not at all, dad." Wes said with a smile. "Promotions were already in the works before this happened. I logged Jason's promotion to Captain before I left for the rehearsal. It's in the computer banks hours before he and Eric bonded. I wanted his last… " Wes's voice breaks and he has to struggle to regain control before he could finish. "I wanted, what I believed were going to be his last days as a Silver Guardian to be filled with respect and dignity, dad. He deserved that promotion for putting his life on the line for Eric, twice in one year. Eric was right, if it hadn't been for Danvers in bunker two being very observant, Jason wouldn't be here right now. We'd have buried him that day because one of those bastards had him laser sighted with a high-powered rifle loaded with cop killers. Danvers shot to take out the one that had a bead on Jason happened at the same time Jason fired on Eric's morpher. He couldn't have shot both. He put Eric's life before his and I couldn't do anything but stand there and admire the courage it took to make that decision, dad. I want to be like him and Eric. I want to place Kimberly's life above my own and I already do."
"I understand that need, son." Mr. Collins said very sadly. I'd have done the same for your mother if I could have. I founded this research and development complex and well as the Silver Guardians to protect and serve mankind. I couldn't cure the disease that killed your mother, but I can make the world a better place for my grandchildren to inhabit in the years to come. That's all I want."
"The Rangers will always guarantee the next generations survival, dad." Wes said with a smile. "Some of us have already paired off and had children that will, when old enough, be the next generation of protectors for our world. I don't see men and women like the first Rangers are being forgotten, dad. Our legacy of helping in times of extreme trouble will continue into the future. We've already seen that first hand when Jen, Trip, Katie, and Lucas came back to help capture and stop Ransik. I believe that Time Force is what, a century from now, the Silver Guardians will become."
"Silver Guardians becoming Time Force, hmm, I think I can see that too, son." Mr. Collins said with a smile on his face. "And with people like you, Eric, and now Jason at the helm; we'll get there sooner rather than later." Mr. Collins left and various Silver Guardians and scientists that worked side-by-side without the strain of military and civilian to strain their working relationship greeted him. He smiled and made his way to his office where he happily approved the promotion of Corporal Jason Lee Scott to Captain and then he thought for a moment and altered the entry to reflect Jason's newly married status. Corporal Jason Lee Scott was now Captain Jason Lee Scott-Myers. He also altered Eric's information and Commander Eric Myers was now Commander Major Eric Myers-Scott.
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