Letting Go (Power Rangers in Space)

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Summary: Ashley faces life without Andros. (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" (written by Judd Lynn), part of a series detailing the events and aftermath of the two-parter.

This is the eleventh of the "Destruction... and after" series of stories and was written December 3, 1998.

Letting Go
by Estirose
copyright 1998

I can't believe he's gone. I can't believe I let him go. But I did.

It was his choice, and I must remind myself of that. Earth is not his home, as it is mine. We are about to depart his world, perhaps for the last time. Scratch that, it will be the last time. Then I will go back to being a regular teenager with regular worries and things like that. I don't know if I remember how that feels- guess I'll have to relearn.

I just wish he was doing it by my side, my beloved, striped-haired boyfriend. I taught him about sushi, and hopscotch, and all those little things that are different between my world and his. Sometimes, I have to admit, I dreamed of settling down somewhere with him, and raising cute little striped-haired kids. Maybe sometimes it was just so that I wouldn't lose courage in our desperate fight, but I didn't realize that I'd be giving up my boyfriend at the end of all of this.

Will I find a new love? Will he? I almost wish that I could stay there on KO-35, but I have family waiting for me, and my own world to rebuild. There are still plenty of places where my extra pair of hands are needed- most of downtown Angel Grove must have been destroyed!

Andros, I will miss you so much. No matter how the two of us behaved in the beginning, we did fall in love, despite different customs and different personalities. Now, without space travel, you will be dead to me, to all of us.

I must be brave and let you go. I don't know if I can, but I must try.

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