Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:07:09 -0600
From: marik_jol@hotmail.com
Subject: In Practice Pt3
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Here is part 3 and 4 of the In Practice series. Same
characters, just expands on the budding relationship between Carlos,
Zane and Andros. There is four parts to this installment.
Power Rangers, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Turbo,
AlienRangers, and all characters from the series are trademarks of and
copyright by Saban Entertainment. I welcome comments and suggestions.
Send to marik_jol@hotmail.com. Thanks Jolan Tru
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Part III
TJ and I walked toward the lift. I watched TJ from the corner of my
eye. Zane may be right. TJ is cute, nice chest. Mentally through
some cold water on myself. We made it to the bridge. Cassie and Ashley
were already at their stations mulling around.
Andros was messing with something. He didn't see me come in. but he
said aloud. "Hey TJ, Hey Carlos."
TJ said, "Hey Andros, where is Zane?" Something in TJ voice made
Andros' ears turn crimson. He turned to look at him. TJ winked at him.
Andros just gave me a silly grin that I laughed at. It drew Cassie's
and Ashley's attention. They looked at us and then at each other.
At that moment Zane walked in, my back was to him. But I knew it was
him, despite the fact he thought at me and Andros exactly what he was
going to do to us tonight. Andros found something on his panel that was
very interesting. I just acted as always. Kinda closed my eyes and
shook my head slightly. I heard him yelp quietly, and turn to put a
hand on his rump and look behind him. He threw Andros a look.
Though I heard his response to Andros , I thought at him, "Your evil.
Teasing us and we have an audience. Or we would take you right here
and now."
Andros must have picked that one up. Because he chuckled and thought a
picture both of us of his fingers tickling the ridges on Zanes dick.
Then the three of us couldn't hold it back we were literally rolling on
the floor laughing.
"Ok whats up? You two, and should I now say three, are acting real
strange. Come, come do tell. We are at a loss here." Cassie started.
Ashley picked up. "You three look like the cat that ate the canary."
Andros looked at Zane, "You tell them."
Zane looked at Andros, "Nope you tell them." They continued that way
for few secs.
And I was a pile of nerves. I will tell them I decided. But how? I
know. I walked up and stood between Zane and Andros. I grabbed Andros
and planted a kiss, so full and deep. That he staggered back into the
chair behind him, when I released him. I immediately turned and did the
same to Zane. Zane fell back and landed on his ass on the floor.
TJ's eyes were grinning. But the girls eyes were round as saucers and
they weren't breathing.
"Yall ok," I said to them. "In answer to your question. Zane and
Andros are together and I am with both of them. I mean "with"." I
emphasized the "with" part. Understanding and comprehension passed over
their eyes.
I grinned big.
But were they surprised? When they recovered from the little scene and
looked at us. And in unison, "Finally, you tell us."
"You know how hard it is to pretend that we did not know a thing."
Ashley said.
Cassie piped in, "Yeah. We were waiting for yall to say something."
"Hey was I the only one not to know until this morning." TJ sounded a
little hurt but playfully hurt.
Alpha turned and looked at us. "I knew."
Zane, Andros and I laughed at that. "Maybe we were not as discrete as I
thought." Andros thought.
"Zane discrete, yeah right. Now you will tell me that Santa is the
Easter Bunny." I said with a playful jab at Zane. Zane's response was
to slap me on the butt.
"Can't be discrete with that around?"
I blushed. Andros looked at him with a tolerating glance, his arms
crossed.
"What?" Zane said with feigned innocence.
Zane and Andros held hands and I put my arms around them. That was the
day that Andros found out that Astronoma was his sister. Andros left to
find his sister and came face to face with hordes of her evil creatures
and her, his sister. I went after him. Nearly got myself killed. But
we got Andros back or so we thought.
Part IV
Zane and I were in his quarters. We were worried. Andros had locked
himself in his room. He was lost in despair. Imagine finding out that
your sister was your worst enemy, in our case Astronema. We were
shocked, but more concerned for Andros. He hadn't eaten in days, won't
talk to us, and has his mind closed off so we cannot help him. With him
retreating so far within himself there was very little we could sense of
him. When we could feel him his anguish would filter over our link.
"What are we gonna do, Zane? What?" I cried.
"I don't know. But we have to do something. This has to stop. We have
tried to talk to him, get him out and distract him but he needs to get
this out of his system." He stopped and closed his eyes.
" Hmmm. I think we have something to try. We may need to use a bit
more brute force. We need to go to his quarters." He grabbed my hand
and drug me out of the room.
Soon we were in front of his door. We pressed the signal button
numerous times, asked him to go to the mess hall. Finally he came over
the speaker and said he's not hungry. Zane shook his head. I started
to speak. But he placed a finger to his lips. He grabbed both of my
hands. And closed his eyes. We slowly moved into that netherworld that
I was getting more familiar with.
"Zane why are we here. We tried this before.", I said.
"We are going to try to do this together. We need to let him know we
aren't gonna give up and that he is not alone. He has us."
We started to call for him telling him that we miss him and we won't to
help him. We were being as open as we could. I opened myself up all
the way. Something I have never done.
"Zane, Carlos, I haven't been myself. I miss y'all to I just can't get
it out of my mind." Andros said from behind us. "I lost her once,
found her then lost her again."
We turned around. He was standing behind us. We ran over to him.
Gathered him into a group hug. He was weak.
"Let us in. We want to help you. We feel lost without you. I can feel
your deep sadness. But this will not take the place of your sister but
we are here. We're with you. Just let us know how we can help. We
will do everything we can.." I pleaded. I was near tears.
"Carlos is right. Andros, how long have we known each other she is my
sister to. I hurt. Let me in. We have always been there for each
other. And now it is not just us. We have Carlos." Zane replied.
Andros just looked at us and we could see a tear form. He crumpled to
the ethereal ground. Zane and I moved at once to try and catch him but
he had removed himself from the bond. Zane and I were literally thrown
out of the group mental bond.
When we came to in our bodies, we staggered. Braced ourselves on
the wall. We looked up to see Andros standing at the door. Tears
streaming down his face. We went in to his room the door shut and we
healed. Andros never completely healed he still goes through times he
gets down and depressed. He will now let Zane and I shore him up. He
finds refuge in our bond.