A/N: I know I said I was discontinuing this story due to the lack of interest. However, there was one lovely follower and reviewer and I couldn't stand to let them down. I absolutely can't stand not knowing what happens in the end of a story, so I didn't want to do that to someone else. Remeber, reviews help me know if this story is really worth keeping or not.
Warnings: Sky/Syd (Don't panic. It won't last long), some smut (a little more extreme than chapter one), and language.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Power Rangers. I'm not making any money off this.
It was past curfew and while most of the rangers were already sleeping or getting ready for bed, Sky was getting ready for his night with Syd. He never really had a girlfriend before, due to the fact that he was so busy concentrating on his career. There was one girl that he dated when he was in the academy, but the instant he became a ranger, he knew that he had to leave her. After that, he never really dated. That was until Bridge.
The whole Syd thing was adding quite a bit of stress to his night. He had taken a shower and restyled his hair. He even wore his best aftershave. But he still had no clue what to wear. "What do girls like?" he wondered desperately to himself.
He already had decided on a pair of tight Calvin Klein briefs. Many models he saw in magazines wore them, and Syd and Z were always fawning over them. However, he didn't know what else to wear. Did she usually like him to be fully dressed? Or did she like just the underwear. Sky checked his watch. He only had ten more minutes. "I need to think of something quick!" he thought. Suddenly, he got an idea.
He made his way to the shower and turned it on, allowing water to pour over his recently styled hair. Then he let it run all over his body and finally tuned the water off. After stepping out of the tub, he dried off and wrapped the towel around his waist. "Forget the underwear; that should do it," he said, "And now, I wait."
It wasn't long until there was a soft knock on his door. "Sky," Syd's soft voice whispered from outside, "Can I come in?"
Sky made sure his towel was adjusted correctly and headed to answer the door. "Hello there," he said with a smile as he let her in, "Sorry about the wait, I just got out of the shower."
"Totally fine," she said, looking his body up and down, taking in his glory, "I don't mind at all."
Sky smiled. He knew that he got the whole thing right.
"Don't worry," Syd continued, "I brought just what you asked me to."
The pink ranger stripped off her academy issued pajamas, baggy sweatpants and a pink T-shirt, and revealed what she was wearing. "So," she asked, "what do you think?"
Under her unflattering pajamas, she had put on a set of pink and black lingerie complete with stockings, lacy underwear, and a matching corset. "I found it last week," she said, "I couldn't wait to show you."
Sky had a strange feeling inside of him that he just couldn't recall ever feeling for a woman. "What is this?" he thought to himself, "Arousal? But I've never been attracted to…"
Syd interrupted his thoughts, "Are we going to get started or not?" she asked, obviously getting impatient.
"Oh yeah, sure," he replied.
He leaned down and placed a kiss on her lips. It was very different than Bridge for sure. She was a lot more gentle and small than another man. It just didn't feel right. Sky broke away from the kiss. "What's wrong?" asked Syd.
"I don't know," he replied, "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea."
"Oh please. I think it's a very good idea, and I'm sure I can easily convince you."
Before he could respond, Syd reached out and pulled their bodies together. The pink ranger gave him a small smirk. "What do you mean by 'This wasn't such a good idea?'" she asked, "I can totally tell you're enjoying this."
With that, she leaned up and kissed him with much more intensity. Sky didn't know what to do. A part of him wanted this, but there was still a small part of him that didn't. "I'm in a different world now," he thought to himself, "Bridge doesn't matter. I'm with Syd. This is how things are supposed to be."
He pulled her closer and deepened the kiss further, slithering his tongue between her lips and probing her mouth. "This isn't too bad," he thought, "Almost like Bridge, but smaller and much more feminine."
Not knowing what to do next, he allowed Syd to take the next move. The pink ranger removed his towel and pulled him towards the nearest wall without breaking theirkiss in the process. She then balanced herself between him and the wall and slowly hoisted herself around his torso. Syd broke away from their kiss only to nibble and suck around his jaw line and neck. "Your move," she whispered seductively into his ear before returning to his lips.
Sky smiled into the kiss and moved toward his bed. "I guess this is another benefit of being the red ranger," he thought, "You have a room all for yourself, just for these types of… occasions."
Once they arrived at their destination, he slowly eased her onto the mattress and began to work at removing her clothing. Although extremely nice to look at, the lingerie proved to be painfully difficult to remove. "I'm sorry," she hissed, realizing his problem, "Maybe it will work better if I'm on top?"
He rolled back over and allowed her to sit on top of him. "Good idea Bridge," he mumbled without thinking.
Syd suddenly stopped and drew away from him, a hurt expression on her face. "What?" he asked.
"You just said 'Good idea Bridge.' Is there anything that you've been doing behind my back?"
"No," Sky replied, "It's just part of the confusion, I swear. In this other world, I guess you could call it, in which I'm the blue ranger, I'm with Bridge."
"So you're confessing to me that you like men now?"
"That's not what I mean. Here, I'm not supposed to I guess, but in the world where everything is normal, I do."
"I should have listened to you in the first place. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea that I came over tonight…" Syd began to climb off of him.
"No. I want you to stay. I've been having a great time so far."
"Really?" she asked getting back onto his lap.
"Should we maybe start where we left off?" She rocked her hips, grinding her body into Sky's arousal, electing a groan of pleasure from him.
"I'd take that as a yes," she continued with a giggle.
And Sky just let his body go into autopilot.
xxx
He awoke the next morning to an empty bed. "Hmm," he said to no one in particular, "I specifically remember going to sleep with her."
Yawning, Sky got out of bed and began to make the sheets before going to morning training. The crinkling of paper caught his attention. Lying on Syd's place in his bed was a small note.
Sky:
I'm sorry, but as you know it is against regulation to be in a relationship with a fellow squad member. That is why I had to leave before someone caught us together. I would have woken you up to say goodbye, but you seemed so tired yesterday that I thought I should let you sleep. See you at breakfast.
XOXOXOXO,
Syd
After reading the note, he looked at the clock. "Great, running late again," he thought. He threw the note in the trash after making caution to tear it up so that there was no possibility someone would find out about he and the pink ranger's relationship. Then he pulled a new uniform out of his closet and headed for a quick shower.
In a record ten minutes later, he was ready and heading out for breakfast. Nothing could prepare him for what he heard as he was walking through the rangers' common room. "So I can't wait to get some toast," he overheard Bridge saying, "I heard it was extra buttery today."
"Oh Bridge!" said Z between laughing, "I find it so cute how you wiggle your fingers whenever you say 'buttery.'"
"I do not!" Bridge replied in denial.
Sky didn't want to hear the rest. It was too painful. He had thought that being with Syd would fill the hole that Bridge had left when he arrived in this strange parallel life, but it didn't. The fact that Bridge was with someone else only made him hurt more.
xxx
"So what happened this morning?" Syd asked.
The couple was hanging out in Sky's room. She was curled up behind him on the bed, her legs on either side of him, stroking his hair.
"You weren't at breakfast and Z said she and Bridge saw you running out of the common room like something was bothering you.
"Nothing…" Sky replied with a sigh.
"Sky Tate, don't you lie to me," snapped the pink ranger.
"I would tell you, it's just that you would call it silly. And I don't think you would like it very much."
"I'm your girlfriend! That's what I'm here for!" Syd protested, "Just tell me. I promise I won't be mad."
"Syd, I think we need to break up!" he blurted out.
This, he instantly regretted. Nothing pained him more than seeing the hurt look on her face. Tears welled up in her blue eyes as she tried to find some way to reason with him.
"I'm sorry," he continued, "but everything just doesn't feel right at the moment. And it isn't just you and me; it's being the red ranger, having Grumm gone, just everything! Nothing has seemed normal since yesterday and I don't know why. I'm supposed to be the blue ranger, we're all supposed to still be fighting Grumm, and Bridge is supposed to be who I'm with, not you!"
"So this is what it's about!" Syd yelled back, "It's been about Bridge this whole time! Well I have a newsflash for you Sky: Bridge isn't even fucking gay! Last time I checked, he and Z were together and extremely happy! I don't get why you're so set on someone you can't have!"
"Because I love him."
He had said it. If only Bridge was there to hear it. The word felt so foreign to him. Love. He couldn't remember the last time he said it, or if he even used it before. But no one was more deserving of it than Bridge. He was his absolute everything. There was never a moment that he regretted being with him, or that he wasn't happy. He now realized that he, Sky Tate, loved Bridge Carson. And now it was too late to tell him.
"You what?" Syd shrieked.
"You heard me," Sky snapped back.
"But that's impossible!" she shouted, "You've never even been with him! You're not even gay!"
"How would you know that? You're not me. You've never been in my head, felt my emotions and thought my thoughts. You have no right to say that."
"How do I know? Because I'm the one you fucked senseless last night!" she yelled in absolute fury.
"I hate to break it to you, but there is a difference between love and lust. You can easily fuck without loving someone. A whore like you totally should know that. Now if you could kindly do me a favor and leave Sydney; the door is over there."
Sky motioned towards the door.
"I can't believe you, and I am not a whore!" hissed Syd as she left.
Sky sat on his bed and ran his hands through his hair. "So I do love Bridge," he said, "And now there's nothing I can do about it."
But realization soon struck him.
"Maybe that's why I was sent here. I don't know who, or what could have done it, but someone wants me to fix things. Someone knew I was making the wrong decision and decided to put me in a world without Bridge so I knew what I did wrong. Maybe that's what I need to do to get out of here. I need to make Bridge fall in love with me again."
A/N: I mean no hate towards Syd. Her bitchy attitude was just part of the plot c:
