The Garden of Vacant Dreams

The Reunion - Pt. 1

AN: Saban/Disney owns the characters you know. I own the ones you don't.

CHAPTER TEN

THE REUNION - Pt. 1

Tensions were high on the main deck of the Astro Megaship. Ashley still sat in the same position since the last transmission from Mesogog, crying softly into her palms as Cassie held her. Cassie looked almost as upset, her gaze on her shoes. Zhane sat close to her, his knuckles under his chin as he rested his elbows on his thighs. The anxiety was more than evident everyone's demeanor. T.J. had remained very quiet and reserved as he sat in the back of the room leaning against the wall closest to the door. He was deep in thought; his forearms relaxed and rested upon his knees. His eyes were focused straight ahead of him, where they had been for over half an hour. The door closest to him slid open then to reveal Carlos. T.J. got up immediately to confront him as everyone in the room looked over at them.

"What's going on?" He asked worriedly, "I just saw Jason out there looking like he wanted to kill somebody." Carlos had barely come onto the main deck before T.J. was pulling him back out into the hall.

"Let's take a walk, Carlos."

The two of them left and walked down the hall. As T.J. got Carlos up to speed, Jamie almost bumped into them on her way out of her room. Carlos looked down at her with a inquisitive look as T.J. gave her a sympathetic grin. She looked up at them with a blank expression. The men could hear the distant music coming from the headphones she had in her ears. She didn't acknowledge them and quickly made her way down the hall they had just come from.

She tried to keep her head down and go unnoticed as she made her way to the entrance of the Megaship. She began to wonder how everything had gotten so screwed up. 'I wish I could just see him again.' She thought as she turned another corner. She missed her dad more and more every day and had never felt this level of both uncertainty and worry. Jamie continuously told herself that she would not let melancholy take over; she was an Oliver, she had to remain valiant.

She considered going outside to see where Jason was but instead walked into the auditorium that would house this weekend's festivities. She looked around the room, a smile coming onto her face for the first time in a while. There were large banners all around the auditorium representing each group of Rangers and at least 100 chairs set out around tables reserved for each group as well.

"I thought this place would be full of people by now." Jamie was caught off guard by the voice of a man behind her.

"Hey there!" The man said as he approached her. "I'm Leo."

"Jamie." She replied shaking the hand he had extended to her.

"That's a nice name." He said with a smile. Before he could say anything further he turned around to see his team in the hallway. "Hey guys... in here!"

"I've got to get going." Jamie quickly told him making her way out the door before any of the Galaxy team could come inside. He watched her leave with a puzzled look.

"Look at this place!" Maya said excitedly, "It's wonderful!"

"Really though... this is going to be fantastic." Kendrix added with a smile as she walked up next to her.

"I like the banners." Kai told them as he set down a wine basket on the table closest to him.

"You ready for this, man?" Damon asked Leo as he took a seat at the Galaxy team table.

"You kidding me? I'm going to love this, I've been preparing for weeks now." Leo was looking down at his index cards that were written with all sorts of notes for the weekend. It was then that Mike walked in holding a massive cake.