Underneath It All: Sky and Syd
Disclaimer: Not until I take over the world.
Challenge: Rain
Timeframe: Somewhere before Endings
"It's raining, Sky," Sydney chirps to her friend, poking him in the arm. "Come on already. Let's go play in the rain like when we were little."
Sky looks up from his model airplane and directly into the pink ranger's beautiful blue eyes. They are simply begging him to play with her, to spend some quality time together, and Sky feels his resolve soften. "Alright, Sydney," he answers, attempting to sound as if he is only indulging her to make her quiet. Really he wants to, but he doesn't want her to know that.
She squeals and kisses his check, and is off to find her pink plastic raincoat. Syd returns a moment later, dressed in her coat already and holding a blue one for him. He thanks her and bundles himself into it.
Syd holds his hand all the way through the academy, pretending to be dragging him. Honestly she just wants the excise to hold his hand, and the feeling of their fingers laced together is almost too much for her.
Then they are outside and are instantly soaked through to the bone. Syd giggles and climbs atop the cement fountain. "I'm singing in the rain," she tells him in her musical voice, eyes alight with mischief and utter delight at being in the rain with Sky. Syd has always loved rain. Secretly Sky is fond of rain as well.
His first kiss had been in the rain, and it had been with Syd. He knows it had been a sort of accident, that she hadn't meant to, but every time it rains he is reminded of it and he cherishes the memory.
"You're quiet," she observes as he sinks down onto the edge of the fountain, his plastic raincoat protecting the pants of his uniform.
"Just thinking," Sky tells her.
"Remember when we kissed in the rain?" Sydney asks, folding herself down next to him. "I was ten and you were eleven, and we were at my house goofing around."
"You came to hug me," he continues, "And leaned in a little too close. It just happened, and we took an oath not to talk about it anymore."
"We were silly little kids," she noted, cuddling against his side. His arms lock around her automatically. "Imagine not wanting to talk about kissing the studly blue ranger."
Sky releases a bark of laughter. "Yeah. We were weird."
Her head is on his shoulder now, breathing in his clean boy scent, and her crystalline eyes are shut. "We could try again," she suggests a moment later.
Before he even has time to consider her offer, her mouth is pressed against his in a strawberry flavored kiss. He kisses her back, unaware that through the window in the rec room, the red, green and yellow rangers are watching with smiles on their faces. And when they pull apart and he looks up and notices his nosy teammates, he pulls Syd closer and kisses her again.