Theme Challenge: Syd and Sky
Series presented by: BloomingViolets and Pink-Green-White-4ever
Challenge: Albume – written by Pink-Green-White-4ever
Last Revised: October 4, 2005

Summary: A special project by Syd sparks her to share memories of Bridge and Sky with Z.
Disclaimer: We don't own 'em, wish we did.
Ship: Syd/Sky

AN: Done in response to the Ars Amatoria's Ranger Romance Themes Challenge.

Set before the team graduates the academy

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Z was surprised to see Sydney sitting on the floor of the common room, a mess of construction paper, scissors, stickers and pictures strews around her. "What are you doing?" Z asked, flopping onto the couch and looking down at her pink teammate.

"I'm working on a special project."

"I can see that, smart ass," Z laughed when Syd looked up and stuck her tongue out at her. "What is it for?"

"Well, we're all graduating from here soon, and we'll officially be S.P.D. officers. Who knows where we'll all go afterward? So, I decided to take some of the pictures we've taken over the last year or so, and I'm making each of us a memory album," Sydney spoke, placing a few more stickers on the page she was working on.

"Ok."

"There'll be pictures, quotes, poems, and little captions in them, plus, I left some blank pages at the end, color coded of course, for each of us to write something personal to each other in them."

Z grinned. "That's cool, Syd. Let me see," Z told her, sliding off the couch and onto the floor next to her.

"I've already done everyone's, except Sky's, which is what I'm working on."

"When did you get that picture?" Z laughed at the picture of Bridge and Sky sitting at a table, each with a huge hamburger in their hands.

"That was Sky's sixteenth birthday. His mom took the three of us out to dinner, and those two bet each other they couldn't finish the hamburgers, which were like three fourths of a pound of meat. I just had to snap a picture of them trying."

Z looked amused. "Who won?"

Sydney laughed. "Neither, though I think Bridge ate more of his than Sky did. Ultimately, they both got sick from eating too much."

Once the stickers were set on the page she was working on, Sydney flipped back to the beginning and let Z look through it. They laughed over pictures of Sky covered in mud, ice cream, and various other things that Sydney had managed to take. Z snickered when she saw the Halloween and Christmas pictures; seeing Sky dressed as Dracula for Halloween and good old St. Nick for Christmas to go with Sydney's Elvira and Mrs. Claus costumes was hilarious. And Bridge dressed as an Elf and Igor to match them was cute too.

There was one picture that made Z stop flipping pages and simply stare at it. Sky was leaning with his back against a tree, dressed in a pair of black slacks, a blue polo and a black leather jacket. In his arms was Sydney, wearing one of those classic little black dresses, one of the ones hanging in her closet currently, with pink accents and a black shawl. Syd was leaning her head on his chest, and both of them were looking at the camera. "When did you guys get that taken?"

Sydney looked down at the picture and smiled, her eyes tearing up slightly. "That was our first date," Syd smiled up at her friend. "There was a vendor near the restaurant, taking pictures. He snapped that one of us without either of us noticing and then he showed it to Sky. Sky paid to have two copies made, and then I got another copy of it to put in this for him."

"You two look so happy in that picture," Z murmurs.

The Pink Ranger nodded. "We were. We'd just finished eating and had decided to take a walk, to kinda ease the tension."

The Yellow Ranger laughed. "Sexual tension?"

"Awkwardness kinda tension," Syd corrected, letting her fingertips gloss over the picture. "Right before the picture had been snapped, we'd been making out under the cover of the tree."

"Then why do you look so dazed?"

"It was my first kiss."

Z looked momentarily startled by that admission. "Aww."

"Good afternoon ladies," a new voice calls out, startling both of them. Looking up, the two girls see Sky standing above them. "What are you two doing?"

The girls share a look and burst out laughing. "Syd's making something for us, and she was sharing a few memories of you and Bridge with me."

Syd smiles her thanks at Z taking the attention off the heavy topic of conversation. "Need something?" Syd asks, going back to her task of finishing Sky's album.

"Nope. Can I see?"

"When it's finished, yes, but not before then. Now scram!" Syd laughs, watching Z get up and usher Sky out of the room.