Blue & Evil: The Beginning
By: PernDragonrider
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Power Rangers. Just borrowing the characters for a little romance then returning them. No money being made; so don't sue.
Author's Notes: This contains SLASH! Relationship between two men and if you don't things like that please hit the back button and go no further. This plot bunny hid and bit before I could get rid of it. This is a prequel to my drabble entitled "Blue Meets Evil On The Beach!" Just one possible explanation for the tale of how Chad Lee and Ryan Mitchell might have became a couple. Special thanks, kudos, and bowing and scraping at CamFan4Ever's feet. Without her almost instant feedback, patience, and encouragement this tale would have never been written. Enjoy and please leave a review. Pern. Now onto the tale…
Chapter Three – Revelations & Promises"You have failed me again, Ryan." Diabolico's voice echoed angrily in Ryan's brain as he was lying on the bed waiting to console his lover over being run off the Lightspeed Rescue team because he was gay. He was completely unprepared for the disapproval and anger his father's thoughts conveyed. "But I did seduce him and left plenty of evidence inside his body that he'd been with me!" Ryan almost whined in terror because of Diabolico's displeasure with him.
"You did well in that, my son." Diabolico's voice was slightly less angry. "It is not your fault that the one to hold the pink morpher is sympathetic and has covered up his orientation. Continue to stay with this one and feed me information on their strengths and weaknesses, son. He comes, so be prepared." Ryan rose from the bed as his father's voice left his brain and he heard Chad using his key in the lock on the apartment door.
Chad entered his apartment with a slight frown marring his face. The frown turned into a smile when Ryan walked into the small living room from the hallway that led to the bedroom. "So? How was work today?" Ryan asked with a seductive smile gracing his handsome features.
"Didn't work." Chad answered with a small worried smile on his face. "Got into work and before I could enter the building a couple of military types had already spoken with my boss. I've got two days to clear things up and report to a new job. Ry, I'm going to be, no I am a Power Ranger. Apparently there's a need for team here in Mariner Bay and I got chosen to be the Blue Ranger."
"Power Ranger?" Ryan asked in feigned innocence. "That means I won't get to see you that much anymore, doesn't it?"
"I have to go back to the base in two days, Ry." Chad said sadly. "According to the head honcho, we're going to have regular days off; but I don't know when that's going to be. I want; no I need you in my life. Please tell me this isn't going to tear us apart? You're the first man I've ever met that has gotten so deeply entrenched in my heart that I don't think I can live without knowing you're okay with this. If you're not, I won't take the job. I'll just go back to my job at the aquarium."
"I've done well, father." Ryan's thought reached out for his demonic father and he felt the wave of his father's approval wash over him briefly. "Do I force him to refuse the Power Ranger position or do I tell him everything is all right and that we'll still be together?"
"He's been accepted by the Power, my son." Diabolico's evil thoughts soothed the tension Ryan was feeling yet not betraying to his lover. "He must stay on the team, for now. Once Mariner Bay is again the rightful home of Queen Bansheera's Temple; then we will deal with these pitiful humans that are called Power Rangers."
"We'll work it out, Chad." Ryan told the still uncertain man standing nervously before him. "I have a job I have to do too. We'll find the time and we will stay together to see if our feelings are as deep as we think they are." Ryan pulled the now unresisting Chad into a tight hug and kissed him passionately. When the two finally had to pull apart for needed oxygen to supply their starving bodies, Ryan told him; "Let's go into the bedroom and I'll show you just how much I missed you today, lover." Ryan's voice was breathless, but also filled with passion and an underlying emotion that Ryan was completely unaware of. However Chad heard the love interlaced with the passion and never replied verbally, he simply took Ryan's hand and started toward the bedroom.
The next morning dawned and Ryan woke up with his arms full of his generous, handsome, and giving lover. His heart constricted painfully and he tightened his hold on the smaller man lying half on top of him. Chad stirred slightly and then sighed as he settled back into sleep. "Why does my chest hurt whenever I look at this human?" Ryan thought in confusion. "I should hate him and every other human that is keeping Queen Bansheera's Temple from its rightful place and be wanting to subjugate everyone under her rule; but when I'm with this one, I can't seem to hate as I should. Am I weak?"
Chad stirred again and for the second time that day Ryan's heart constricted as Chad slowly opened his eyes and gazed into Ryan's thoughtful and yet puzzled expression. "Morning, Ry." Chad sighed and gently kissed the man that held him so tender and lovingly. "What do you want to do today?"
Ryan responded to Chad's gentle kiss with one of his own and then deepened the exchange as their mutual passion from the night before rekindled. The passionate and fiery kiss ended only when both of them were breathless and their chests heaved in tandem as they drew in deep lung filling breaths of needed oxygen.
"I guess that means you'd rather stay inside all day and store up memories until we can meet again?" Chad asked with a seductive yet teasing tone of voice as he kissed his lovers chest while paying attention to the sensitive nipples.
"You promised to take me diving today." Ryan pouted; however his pout was destroyed as he gasped in pleasure when Chad's mouth paid homage to his chest.
"That I did didn't I." Chad almost purred in contentment as Ryan stroked his back with a long kneading motion. "We can do that or we can stay here for while and enjoy waking up together some more. I don't know when I'll be able to come back to the apartment, love." Chad's voice lost some of the contentment and took on a note of longing and loss as he continued to speak.
Ryan's heart pulsed strangely and skipped a beat when he thought of not having this man by his side for a long length of time. "Perhaps we can do both today, Chad?" Ryan asked with a slow seductive smile forming on his face and unknown to him his love shining deep in his expressive eyes. He gently tugged the man in his arms up to where he could fully enjoy the pleasures of kissing and being kissed as well as enjoying everything that kissing would eventually lead to.
A couple of hours later, both men were sated and were sharing a light late breakfast in Chad's small kitchen. "I have to find a good name for you, Chad." Ryan said with a thoughtful frown crossing his face. "You've already got a 'pet name' for me and I want one for you. I know! I'll call you, Blue. It's to honor your skills as a diver as well as your color as Power Ranger. Do you like it?" Ryan's thoughtful tone changed as he talked into excitement and then trepidation as he told of the 'pet name' he wanted to call his lover by.
"Hmm." Chad hummed thoughtfully as he walked over and stood behind where Ryan stood. He slid his arms around his lover's neck and gave a gentle hug as he almost purred in Ryan's ear. "I love it, Ry. Thank you. You're the first lover I've ever had that thought enough about me to give me a 'pet name'. I love the nickname and I love you, very much. You've gotten so deep into my heart and soul that I never want to lose you. This has never happened before and I'm terrified of losing you and chasing you away at the same time."
Ryan stood, turned, and took the uncertain man that had been behind him seconds before into his arms. "I'll be here, Blue. Whenever you can get away or whenever you need me. I'll be here waiting for you. I won't leave and I won't let you chase me away. I think I love you too, Blue." Ryan's voice was tender and he discovered to his dismay that his words were spoken not from his evil thoughts, but from his very heart and soul. "Father can never discover that I've committed the crime of falling in love!" Ryan's thoughts panicked even as he held his 'Blue' tenderly in his arms. "I cannot let father, Vipra, or any of the others hurt him; for it would tear me apart!"
Chad, not knowing of the mental struggle that Ryan was going through as he was held tenderly and gently in his strong arms, sighed quietly as he wrapped his arms around Ryan's waist and hugged him tightly. "I do love you, Ry." Chad's quiet sigh reached Ryan's panicking thoughts and stilled them instantly. "I don't want to leave you either; but I have to report back to the base in the morning. Do you still want to go diving today?"
"I want to be with you, Blue." Ryan said truthfully and let his love for the man in his arms show in his voice. "Whether it's diving in the bay or here just standing in your arms. I truly wish I'd have been chosen to be on this team with you. Being a Power Ranger is dangerous, Blue. You be sure you don't jump into danger and never come back to me. I don't think I could ever forgive you for that."
Both men gave sad sighs of loss as they ended the loving embrace. "I'll do everything I can to come back home to you, Ry." Chad said truthfully. "You do everything you can and keep yourself safe during an attack. I don't want to lose you and I'd never forgive myself if you got hurt because of my new job."
Ryan smiled a tight smile and then he gave a small chuckle as he said, "Listen to the two of us, Blue. We sound like you're going off to war and I'm the little woman staying behind to keep the home fires burning. Damn, lets go diving. We both need the fun or we're going to wind up crying all over ourselves before the day is over with."
Chad laughed and Ryan joined him just seconds later as both men got a mental picture from the words Ryan had just used to describe the intense emotional scene they'd just played out. "God, Ry!" Chad said as he wiped the tears, laughter and pain mixed, from his face after a few minutes. "We are NOT getting all sappy and sentimental. You're right, love. Let's go diving and enjoy the rest of our time together. I'm going to have time off and we'll work all the other shit out as we go along. For now, I want you in my life and you want me back. That's all we have to concentrate on. The rest will come along the way."
The two men left the apartment with light hearts and spent the rest of day at one of the many secluded beaches that Mariner Bay offered to her citizens and visitors. Chad spent his time with Ryan and the two delighted in swimming in the nearly crystalline waters together. Late that evening they sat on the beach and watched the sunset together, arms wrapped about each other and just enjoying their time together before life separated them the next day.
"Blue?" Ryan asked as they watched Mother Nature pain the protected harbor before them with colors of gold, pink, yellow, and red.
"Yeah, Ry." Chad answered with a soft sigh of contentment.
"Can we do this every night?" Ryan asked with a wistful tone of voice. "No worries, no cares, just watching the sun go down together. I'll come here every night and if I can't I promise to stop and watch the sunset from wherever I am and I'll know that you're doing the same thing. It's something we can promise to do together; even if we're apart. Am I making any sense at all?"
"You're making perfect sense, Ry." Chad said as he hugged Ryan tightly with one arm. "I promise that I'll be here or someplace I watch the sunset every night. I won't go back into the base or back to the apartment until the sun has gone completely behind the horizon. That is something we can have that just ours. Our special time; no matter what is happening to either of us."
"It's a deal, love." Ryan said with a happy and contented sigh as he again turned his gaze out to the ocean. "Even when Queen Bansheera's Temple is restored, this place will remain and I can bring my servant here every night before returning into her Temple and enjoying his charms fully." Ryan frowned slightly as the thought played through his head, but Chad never saw the doubt that creased his lover's handsome features. He'd moved to where he was reclined against Ryan's chest and cradled by his body as the two simply enjoyed one of Mother Nature's most delightful joys.
After the sun was fully hidden behind the distant horizon both men rose reluctantly from the sand and returned to Chad's apartment. Their lovemaking that night was poignant and a desperate attempt by both of them to store up the memories of each other until the next time they could be together and again enjoy the sunset together. The next morning, Chad slipped from Ryan's embrace and quietly dressed and left his apartment with a grim sad smile on his face.
"I left Ry a note giving him the number to the base." Chad thought as he waited for Carter's arrival. "I'll call him the second I know when my next day off will be." His musings was interrupted by Carter's voice calling out, "Hey Chad! Let's get a move on, guy. We'll be late!" Chad shook off the feeling of melancholy and impending danger as he jogged quickly down the walkway and jumped lithely into the backseat of the hummer, without opening the door. "Good morning, Carter, Dana." Chad's forced happy tone was lost on Carter, but Dana shot him a look of concern that Chad missed as he saw the curtain on his bedroom window move slightly and he knew that Ryan was watching him leave.
A/N: That's all for this chapter folks. Hope you enjoyed it. Special thanks to CamFan4Ever for her input and feedback on this as it was written, kudos to you for your patience. Next chapter, telling Ryan about his new job and all the reactions that brings along with complications expected and unexpected; please, read and review. May the Power Protect You! Pern.