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solarbaby614 ([personal profile] solarbaby614) wrote2008-10-06 09:06 am

Mommy Dearest Chapter 10: An Interlude


Title: Mommy Dearest
Author: Solarbaby
Disclaimer: All I own is the plot.
Words: 545
Summary: A history in six hundred words or less.
Spoilers: Very minor for Countdown to Destruction and Protect the Quasar Saber.
Notes: Set directly after Chapter 3. Some of dates of episodes and seasons may have been changed for my use.


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Interlude: A History

Casey’s first memory was more a vague semblance of sounds and smells and blurry images than anything else. He could remember happy laughter and the comforting smell of chrysaliheiums, a flower grown specifically on Bospher 3, which he attributed to his mother. There was a vague picture of the man he once referred to as ‘Daddy’ and the manipulative smell of something warm and musky somewhere buried in the deep recesses of his mind.

His first clear memory, however, wasn’t as warm or fuzzy. It was of fear and pain. There was a man he trusted, his uncle, who betrayed him in a horrible way. There was blood everywhere as the man called them abominations and tried to make their blood join that of his aunts and uncles on the floor. The last words his uncle said as he died was that his brother, their father, was the one who sent him. This man was their mother’s first kill since they were born.

When Casey was five when his mother decided it would be better if they hid away in stasis for a new day. He was still five when his Aunt Rita woke them up, needing his mother’s help. Casey had been five years old for several thousand years.

Casey turned eight a few days before he was introduced to Astronema. His first thought when meeting her was how pretty she looked; the second was how dangerous she was. Still, he was overjoyed when his mother informed him that she would take over his training. Hanging out with his mother and sisters had gotten to be so boring.

He was ten when he was informed that he was going to be Astronema’s heir. She and his mother had seemed so pleased by it so he deemed it to be a good thing. It was not long after this announcement that he lost Astronema to Karone. Maybe it was a good thing ‘cause he decided he really didn’t want to be Prince of Darkness one day after all.

Casey was twelve when he met Karone once again on the planet called Onyx. He took comfort in the fact that she didn’t seem to have lost her affinity for leather. She had seemed genuinely happy to see him and he had told her that he wasn’t stupid. He had seen the shiny sword she seemed so intent on hiding. Karone asked him not to say anything and he didn’t. Who was he to talk after all? He was the one hiding a binding bracelet in his pocket.

It was before his eighteenth birthday that he put the binding bracelet to use. He left home and went to earth, intent on training but even more intent on getting out from his mother’s watchful eyes. His mother seemed vaguely pleased that he wanted to expand his training; even it was at the Pai Zhuq academy. He was beginning to think that she was getting soft on him.

He became a power ranger after his eighteenth birthday and got a visit from his mother a few months before his nineteenth.

And now as sat in the bathroom, the images of blood playing out in his head, he thought that maybe, just maybe, he was no better than his father.


 

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