You Found Me: A Story of Sky and Syd
Disclaimer: #Consults her lawyer# Nope, I still don't own Power Rangers.
Challenge: Quest
Timeframe: Can take place anywhere after Endings
"Ew, I am getting seriously gross," Sydney Drew muttered to herself. She had been running around New Tech City all day on some wild goose chase Z had sent her on. Frowning, Syd examined the paper the yellow ranger had given her before shoving her out of the common room.
It had the words "something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue" written in Z's messy printing. But she didn't know why Z had sent her to look for these things. Syd wasn't getting married anytime soon.
"Well, this is definitely the last time I let Z talk me into anything," Syd mumbled. Where could she find something blue? She'd found an old penny on the street (and spent ten minutes scrubbing her hands after picking it up), bought a new diamond ring with her daddy's credit card, and borrowed a white denim skirt from Ally. Now she sat on the rim of a fountain tucked away in a corner of New Tech City Park, pondering her options.
"Syd?"
Syd turned to see Sky standing behind her, out of his uniform for once. He looked good, she thought, in his jeans and red T-shirt.
"Hey Sky. What are you doing here?" she probed.
"Bridge sent me on a scavenger hunt," Sky replied, joining her at the fountain's edge. "You?"
"Z did the same thing…" Syd's voice trailed off in realization. She giggled. "They set us up."
Sky shook his head, turning it over in his mind. "I say they get extra laps as punishment."
"It's very sweet of them, really. They want us to be happy," Syd mused.
Sky was quiet for a while, Syd noted, even for him. She wondered what he was thinking about. Maybe he was planning to ask Cruger for permission to write a sequel to the S.P.D. handbook. Maybe he was thinking about how proud his dad would be of him being red ranger. Maybe he just…
"You want to take a walk?"
Syd was amused at the trace of timidity in his voice. How cute, he was nervous. "I'd like that," she answered, smiling softly as to boost his confidence a bit. It was about time he asked her to do something, just the two of them.
"Are you alright, Syd? You're quiet," Sky said, sounding concerned.
"I'm just thinking," she murmured.
"About what?" he challenged, smirking.
"What are we going to do about Z and Bridge? We can't just let them go around setting people up," Syd lied quickly. She didn't need him knowing she was thinking about how good he looked in that T-shirt, and fantasizing about how much better he'd look with it off.
"This is true," he agreed. "But that's not what you were thinking about, was it?"
"If you must know…you'll have to force it out of me," Syd taunted.
"Fine," Sky responded. He chased her back towards the fountain, catching Syd easily. She was much shorter than him, after all. Syd allowed him to tackle and pin her to the ground in a rare portrayal of silliness. "Tell me."
Syd shook her head mischievously. "Kiss me," she murmured provocatively. "Then I'll tell you."
Without even questioning her request Sky did as he was told. And if they had stopped swapping saliva for a minute they would have seen Z and Bridge exchange hi fives.
I'm calling this challenge Quest because Z gave Syd a list of things to find, one of them being something blue. (Hint, hint.)
Oh, and in Spellbound, I found a serious error. '"Here she comes," Bridge muttered, tactfully returning to taking money from the kids who were in line to try to dunk Bridge.' The second Bridge should have been Boom. It's been fixed if you want to see. : )