Challenge: Smile – written by BloomingViolets
Last Revised: October 23, 2006
Summary: All he could do was stare at her and smile
Disclaimer: We don’t own ‘em, wish we did.
Ship: Syd/Sky
AN: Done in response to the Ars Amatoria’s Ranger Romance Themes
Challenge. Sorry it took us so long, but
we’re busy college students and thing have gotten in the way. And no, we haven’t forgotten A Different Side
Of You, promise.
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Her hair
was like strands of gold, glistening in the sunlight.
It was one
of those overused and cliché sayings, something one might hear in one of those
cheesy, unrealistic chick flicks that he detested so much. The kind of movies
that she probably loved and would sit and squeal over for hours on end with Z
or one of her many other friends from her family’s Country Club. He knew this,
because he had witnessed the squealing first hand on more than one occasion.
Her hair
was long and beautiful and he had never seen anyone else with hair that would
capture his attention like hers did. Wasn’t there some fairy tale about a
princess that had to spin straw into gold in order to prove herself to some
fairy and thus win the hand of her prince? He imagined that her hair was what that gold would have
looked like; long, glistening strands or yellow that was as soft to touch as
silk or velvet and scented with enticing smells of apples or vanilla or even
rosemary and jasmine.
Sky
blinked, coming out of his daze and glancing at his coffee cup suspiciously.
Exactly how much caffeine had he
consumed today, anyway?
He glanced
back to the table where the object of his current fixation was sitting,
chatting away happily with Z. To his surprise, a pair of
suspicious blue eyes were staring back at him, exactly the color of blue
crystals held up to the light…
Ack! Stop that, Tate. What has
gotten into you today?
They
stared at each other for a long, appraising moment, cerulean blue holding
crystal blue, before Sky allowed a faint smile to his lips, raising his near
empty cup to her in a mock salute. That action appeared to break the spell. Ignoring
Z’s sudden questioning,
Like a kitten with her fur all
ruffled up, pretending to be a lion…
Sky
mentally smacked himself over the head, just before the pink ranger reached him
and stood with her hands planted on her hips. “And just what is it about me
that’s so fascinating that you have to keep boring holes into the back of my
head!” she demanded in a high, frustrated voice. “You’re starting to creep me out!”
Sky
regarded her for another moment, and then smiled again, noting how she suddenly
flushed and blinked and looked away in a fit of embarrassment. “Oh, nothing
much,” he replied causally. “I was just admiring the way your hair glistens
like strands of gold in the sunlight, that’s all. It’s really beautiful, you
know.”
And with
those words, he set the empty cup down on the counter and proceeded to stroll
casually out of the common room smiling widely, leaving an openmouthed and
extremely speechless