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Knowing When to Let Go (Power Rangers in Space)
Summary: Ashley finds she can't stop Andros from leaving. (Written November 25, 1998, Destruction... and After storyline)
Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me, but instead to Saban. This takes place during "Countdown to Destruction, part 2", part of a series detailing the events and aftermath of the two-parter. The dialogue is taken from the early portion of "Countdown to Destruction" part 2, and was presumably written by Judd Lynn.
This is the third of the "Destruction... and after" series of stories and was written November 25, 1998.
Knowing When to Let Go
by Estirose
copyright 1998
The others didn't see him leave, but I did. Call it whatever you will, but I knew that he was going to do something like that. Andros can be notoriously stubborn about some things, and his sister is one topic that he can act like a brick wall on.
So I followed him away from where the others were planning, and came around some of the wreckage in time to see him press the release button on his battleizer. I had to stop him before he went, argue him out of this if I could. "Going somewhere?" I asked, crossing my arms.
He swung around, and his guilty expression told me that he wasn't entirely happy about going off without telling us, but obviously he thought if he didn't, that we would stop him. Which is what I was there for.
"Uh, hey, I was going to-" Andros started to say, but apparently he thought better of it. We had a good chance of dying the next morning, and apparently he thought better than to leave existance behind clouded with a lie. Besides, I knew what he had in mind. I didn't know if I could argue him out of it, but I knew what he had in mind.
"Andros, you can't..." I said, and then realized I couldn't really finish my sentence. There was so much to be said, and no time in which to say it. "Leave," I ended, rather lamely, cringing inside.
"I have to try," he insisted, and I realized at that moment that his plan meant so much more than the simple saving of the universe. It was maybe his final chance to bring his sister home, or die trying. What had he to lose? If I tried to stop him from going, I didn't know if his heart would be entirely in to the fight.
I sighed inwardly, and let him go. He walked a few steps away, but something made him hesitate, and he walked back to me again. "Look, if I don't see you again-"
Then I realized that I, perhaps for the last time, had to cheer him up, or at least fortify him for the task ahead. I placed my hand over his mouth, not wanting him to sorrow even more. "Shh. I *will* see you again," I said softly.
"Right," he replied, not sounding entirely convinced. He then walked a few steps away again, and then activated his battleizer. "Red Battleized Ranger!"
And I watched my boyfriend transform and fly into the sky, standing until I couldn't see him anymore. I stood there for a few more minutes, and then went back to the planning session. I, too, had something that I had to do. I'd be fighting my last fight for my planet the next day.
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Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me, but instead to Saban. This takes place during "Countdown to Destruction, part 2", part of a series detailing the events and aftermath of the two-parter. The dialogue is taken from the early portion of "Countdown to Destruction" part 2, and was presumably written by Judd Lynn.
This is the third of the "Destruction... and after" series of stories and was written November 25, 1998.
Knowing When to Let Go
by Estirose
copyright 1998
The others didn't see him leave, but I did. Call it whatever you will, but I knew that he was going to do something like that. Andros can be notoriously stubborn about some things, and his sister is one topic that he can act like a brick wall on.
So I followed him away from where the others were planning, and came around some of the wreckage in time to see him press the release button on his battleizer. I had to stop him before he went, argue him out of this if I could. "Going somewhere?" I asked, crossing my arms.
He swung around, and his guilty expression told me that he wasn't entirely happy about going off without telling us, but obviously he thought if he didn't, that we would stop him. Which is what I was there for.
"Uh, hey, I was going to-" Andros started to say, but apparently he thought better of it. We had a good chance of dying the next morning, and apparently he thought better than to leave existance behind clouded with a lie. Besides, I knew what he had in mind. I didn't know if I could argue him out of it, but I knew what he had in mind.
"Andros, you can't..." I said, and then realized I couldn't really finish my sentence. There was so much to be said, and no time in which to say it. "Leave," I ended, rather lamely, cringing inside.
"I have to try," he insisted, and I realized at that moment that his plan meant so much more than the simple saving of the universe. It was maybe his final chance to bring his sister home, or die trying. What had he to lose? If I tried to stop him from going, I didn't know if his heart would be entirely in to the fight.
I sighed inwardly, and let him go. He walked a few steps away, but something made him hesitate, and he walked back to me again. "Look, if I don't see you again-"
Then I realized that I, perhaps for the last time, had to cheer him up, or at least fortify him for the task ahead. I placed my hand over his mouth, not wanting him to sorrow even more. "Shh. I *will* see you again," I said softly.
"Right," he replied, not sounding entirely convinced. He then walked a few steps away again, and then activated his battleizer. "Red Battleized Ranger!"
And I watched my boyfriend transform and fly into the sky, standing until I couldn't see him anymore. I stood there for a few more minutes, and then went back to the planning session. I, too, had something that I had to do. I'd be fighting my last fight for my planet the next day.
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