You Found Me: A Story of Sky and Syd

Disclaimer: The only thing I own remotely related to Power Rangers is a Wes action figure. And technically I stole it from my little brother.

Challenge: Dare

Timeframe: Post Endings.

"Would you please play with us?" blue ranger Bridge Carson pleaded with red ranger Sky Tate.

Sky looked up from the blue notebook he'd been scribbling in furiously. "Truth or Dare is a game for teenage girls to play at slumber parties," he answered coldly. "I am not going to stoop to that level."

"But it'll be fun," Bridge protested. "Jack and Ally are here and the girls will play and Boom might stop by. Course he might just keep going again once he stopped…"

Sky continued glaring at the blue ranger.

Frustrated, Bridge played his trump card. "Syd really wants you to play."

Sky noticeably softened. "Well, I suppose if Sydney gets her way, which she always does, I might as well come now before she drags me out by my hair."

Bridge snorted. The red ranger's feelings for the SPD princess were so easy to pick up on you didn't have to be psychic to figure it out. He and Z had discussed just locking them in a closet somewhere. The whole Truth or Dare thing was just a charade to get them to admit it.

Sky stuffed the notebook back to its hiding place under his pillow and got off his bed. Bridge trooped off to the Rec Room, Sky following.

The couches and armchairs had been pulled into a sort of circle. Ally and Jack were snuggled into an armchair; Boom and Z were at opposite ends of one couch. Bridge plopped down in between them, looking very content. Syd perched on the last couch alone, wistful. However, she did brighten considerably when she saw that Sky had decided to participate as well.

"Hi," she chirped perkily, scooting closer. Jack snickered.

"Ow!" he yelped, rubbing the side of his head where Ally had slapped him.

Sky rolled his eyes. Why was he here again? But then he was aware of Syd's hand resting on his knee and remembered. Not thinking clearly, Sky reached over and tucked a stray curl behind her ear.

"Maybe we should just leave them alone," Jack suggested loudly as he sheltered his head from aerial attacks.

Sky and Syd had the decency to blush.

"How about we just play," Z said. Bridge and Boom nodded their agreement.

Ally started, asking Z Truth or Dare. Z chose Truth and confessed that she did indeed own a copy or Britney Spears' greatest hits. Everyone laughed, including the yellow ranger.

Z asked Boom, who chose Truth as well. He had to admit he did have feelings for the feline-like Dr. Manx.

After Boom got up the nerve to speak again, Jack was up for a Dare. When he returned from said Dare, he cackled and asked Sky.

"Dare," the former blue ranger said haughtily. Jack was positively exuberant.

"You have to show Syd the notebook you're always writing in!" Jack exclaimed.

Dead silence. Sky, trying to remain calm, rose from the sofa, went to his dorm, and returned with the spiral notebook.

Sydney cracked it open, still puzzled as to why Jack had dared Sky to share the notebook with her.

All the notebook contained was letters. Letters to her.

Syd only read the first three before closing the notebook and handing it back to Sky.

She got off the couch, staring at the ground, and ran. There wasn't a particular destination Sydney had in mind. All she knew was that she had to be alone right now.

"Syd was crying," Boom said sadly.

"What was in there anyway?" Z demanded.

"Yeah, what was in there?" Jack echoed.

"Don't start Landors," Sky snarled. "You made me show it to her in the first place."

"Give Syd a minute," Bridge said quietly. "Then Sky can go make sure she's alright."

Sky didn't think it would make a difference. The letters he'd written were always about how much he loved her. It was too hard to tell her in person just yet, and so he wrote a letter to Sydney nearly every day, confessing his feelings. Oftentimes he recalled certain memories, like when they'd gotten stuck in a thunderstorm when they were ten and the time Syd had pushed him out of the tree house when they were five, just to see if he could fly. (He'd broken his arm in two places) And then there were the little compliments Sky would have given anything to tell Syd, like the way the sunlight caught her golden hair and made it sparkle, or the way her eyes lit up when she was cheerful.

But her running away while crying silently, her beautiful face crumpled…she didn't want him. Sydney didn't love him, not the way Sky loved her.

Stupid Jack.

I know Truth or Dare is kinda cliché for the Dare challenge, but it worked…