Title: Musings
Fandom: Power Rangers: in Space
Characters: Sylvie, Geoff (in memory)
Universe: Ranger Academy
Prompt: 010 - Years
Word Count: 723
Date finished: 02/25/2006
Rating: G
Summary: Sylvie's thoughts about the men in her life when she arrives home from a mission.
Author's Notes: This is a scene that I've decided to cut from the sequel to "I Wonder What It's Like to be a Superhero." There will probably be a lot of these.
Disclaimer: I don't know who owns the Rangers at this point: I'd guess Disney. At any rate, it isn't me. The Ranger Academy is owned by Sparticus.

Sylvie Larson woke up in her own bed with a smile. It was so nice to see her familiar room, and her pictures on the wall across from the bed: the one of her and Troy, her and her mother, and her and Carlos - and the empty space she'd never filled, where the picture of her and Geoff had hung.

It had been years since she'd thought seriously about her former boyfriend - two and a half, in fact, since she'd actually spent a lot of time with him. She'd been so busy, her thoughts occupied by... other things.

Her stomach growled, and she got up. That kind of insistence she could not ignore. Nothing in her mother's fridge looked good, but she still tried to find something to eat. Finally, some left over roast beef at least kept her stomach from growling. Her next step was a nice, hot shower.

She went into her room and got dressed, and her eyes went to the blank spot on her wall. Geoff had been a good boyfriend, right up until she told him she intended to go into the Ranger Academy.

"You're what?" he'd laughed.

"I sent my application in yesterday." They sat at a table in the study hall before school.

"Without telling me?"

She shrugged. "I mentioned it to you a couple of months ago, and you didn't sound interested. Otherwise I would have suggested we put in our applications together."

He stared at her, uncomprehending. "The applications together?"

"Yeah. But you didn't seem interested."

"I'm not! I don't understand why you are."

Sylvie shrugged one shoulder. "I've wanted to be a Power Ranger since I was eight. Now I get the chance."

He laughed again. "If you make it," he said scornfully.

She nodded. "Exactly. But at least I'll know I did my best."

He threw his hands up. "Whatever." He glanced at the clock and gathered his books. "Time for class. I'll see you at lunch." She'd stared after him in disappointment, unexpectedly let down.

Sylvie brushed her hair and then tied it up. As she turned to leave, she brushed fingertips across the delicate bracelet that was her chameleon and smiled, but then sobered as she remembered their next confrontation. She'd tried to let Geoff down easy when she'd left for the academy. It was the beginning of an uncertain time for her, and she hadn't felt right, leaving him hanging while she was away.

"You're breaking up with me?" he'd demanded, standing on her front porch. "Over this stupid, childhood dream?"

"Yes. What if I do make it? And then get assigned off planet for two years? It's not fair of me to ask you to wait."

"You'll never make it," he told her angrily.

She'd stared at him, stunned and not so disappointed as she thought she'd be. "Then I'll save you the humiliation of dating a failure." She'd turned and walked into her house so he wouldn't see her tears.

Sylvie sighed. And then, of course, she'd seen Carlos at the first speech on her first day, and all thoughts of Geoff had fled her mind. She only thought of her old boyfriend when she got messages from her Mother - he usually sent a short message, too - and forgot him nearly as quickly.

She got up and went out to the back porch, sitting on the top step in the sun. It was nice; the warmth helped her relax.

She was glad she'd gotten back from her last mission before Carlos had gone to Triforia. It would have been disappointing to have missed him. Oh, she'd see him again, of course; she knew where to find him, and certainly she'd stop by Triforia some time in her various missions. At least he couldn't just leave like he had... six years ago? So long? "Wow," Sylvie breathed. "Time flies."

She half expected to see Geoff while she was home; he seemed to show up whenever she did. But it would be easy to endure his visit; Carlos was taking her and her mother to dinner tonight.

"Sylvie?" her mother called an instant before the front door shut.

"Out here!" she called and got to her feet to go inside. Right now, she had to catch up with her mother. The rest would wait.

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