Disclaimer I own nothing! Except the plot. J.E owns all recognizable characters.

A/N: I have gone back through this story to find and edit all mistakes that I find. I am appalled at the number of mistakes and am fixing it. Hopefully it will be easier to read. If you had read this before I am truly sorry, the entire story has been redone and then reposted. Hopefully now that there is as copy on my new computer and I have finally had a brain wave as to where I want the story to go it will be finished.

A/N: This is my first Stephanie plum story the idea just popped in my head and won't leave me alone.

Summery: Stephanie has had enough of Ranger playing games and she had already kicked Joe to the curb so she had asked for her someday thinking things had finally changed between her and Ranger, when the man of mystery went and broke her heart and he couldn't even do it in person he did through email. She ended up being forced to go on vacation by her family and when she finally gets back everyone in town is in for the surprise of their lives. NOT A BABE OR CUPCAKE THEY WILL GET HURT…YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Time for change and to reclaim.

Chapter 1

It had been two weeks since I had opened that email that brought my world down around my feet. The one man that I trusted beyond belief told me that there would never be a someday and that I was living in denial if I thought he was even close to ready for even a partway someday. When I read Ranger's, email saying that we would never be more than friends and the sometime lovers and that he could never love enough to be more it broke not only my heart but it did what no one else had ever done. It broke my very spirit.

For the last two weeks, I had not left my apartment once. Dillion my building sup started bringing me food and beer and he even upgraded my locks on my door so that not even the man of mystery himself could get in. I had then asked for him to block off the window/door thing on my fire escape and just put a small window in for me to get out of but too small for anyone to get in. Then I proceeded to bored up all my windows. There was no daylight in my apartment anymore.

For the first few days I was left in peace to mourn the loss of the one person I felt had been my happy ever after. But after 3 days of me not leaving not even to get food or doughnuts my friends and family started to show up. I never answered the door I told everyone to go away. I kept my phone off and had unplugged my house phone, mostly because my mother was always calling so that she could yell at me for what I was doing saying so and so's daughter doesn't lock herself away. The merry men had all tried and failed to get in my apartment and the girls at the bonds office were just plain worried that I had died or something. They weren't too far from the truth that day I did die or at least a major part had… my body was just going through the motions.

Lula and Connie had decided to help me out by still giving me the money from my skips even though it was Lula and one of the merry men picking up my skips. Everyday someone would come over and try to get me to open my door. My mother had tried for the first week saying how I was such a disgrace and that I wasn't a good daughter because I wouldn't settle down and have some kids. My grandma tried a few times I cracked the door so that she could see I was still in one piece. That was all she wanted she just wanted to see that I was still alive. And every day sometimes more than once a day both Ranger and Joe would come over and try pleading with me to open the door. I would go hide in the bedroom or take a shower so I wouldn't hear them.

The only person so far to not come to my door was my dad. And he was the only one I would open it for if he did show up. Today was the two-week mark of my self-imposed imprisonment in my own apartment. I was just lying in bed thinking over the last weeks when I heard a knock at my front door. I sighed and rolled out of bed to see who it was now. It was barely 7. I looked out the peep hole and saw my father standing in the hallway with a bag of doughnuts. I quickly undid the top dead bolt that was installed at the top of my door and the floor bolt and then the two chains and dead bolt and then the normal knob. It was a lot of work to unlock my door but at least I felt safe and knew no one could get in.

"Good morning daddy, what do you have in the bag?" it was the first thing I thought of. I was just glade he had finally come to see me. I knew he would hold me and give me comfort for my pain.

"Good morning to you too pumpkin. May I come in? I happen to have a few fresh Boston creams for you." Frank plum said as I stepped back to let him. Then I went through at least locking all my dead bolts.

" Have a seat daddy. What brings you here today?" I put on a fake face and my voice had that fake cheery tone to it. But my eyes told him everything he needed to know. That his baby girl had been hurt and hurt badly.

" I think it's time for your grandmother and I to give you a gift that we have been saving up for. We want to send you on a nice long vacation to where ever you want to go and you can be gone for as long as you want. I just can't sit by anymore and watch you slowly waste away in here. You are my pride and joy and I really want to see that spark back in your eyes. So, any ideas of where you want to go? I have a few places in mind but I leave the choice up to you. Also, only you me and your grandmother will know exactly where you are at." He had also grabbed one of the remaining doughnuts and was enjoying it.

"Far away from here someplace that man can't find me…. like the Bahamas I could work on my tan and get drunk." I said finishing off the last doughnut.

"Okay give me a few days and it will be all arranged." He looked down as if trying to get up the strength to ask me something. "What happened? Which of those two assholes is responsible for your pain?" there was a fire in my dad's eyes that I hadn't seen since he found out that Joe had fingered me and then 10 years later raped me.

"Ranger" was all I could say before I burst into tears. Frank gathered me up into a hug that told me I wasn't alone that I still had people who loved me. And that he was one of them.

After about an hour I finally let go of him and could smile for the first time and have it reach my eyes. "So in like two days I will be leaving here for an unknown amount of time?" Frank nodded and then stood up to leave.

"Here use this phone to call me, no one can trace it and no one can tap into it. I will call you on it when I have everything arranged ok pumpkin?" he handed me a slim blue cell phone.

"Thank you, daddy, it means the world to me that you still love me and believe in me. I know I haven't been in the best of moods lately and that it seems like I have given up. But it hurt, when he said what he did. I know mom thinks I'm a disgrace and unruly because I won't conform to her idea of what I should be doing with my life. But it's MY life not hers I should be able to do what I want, even if she doesn't approve. I never wanted the "burg" life I don't want a husband and 2.5 kids and a dog. I don't want to be a housewife, it's not who I am. Why can't she be happy with me?" I didn't mean to go into a tirade about my mom with my dad but I needed to say it and I felt better having said it.

"She is just jealous and thinks because she had to give up her dreams because her grandmother said so, that you have to because she said so. I will be having words with her. I should have spoken up years ago but I thought after your divorce that she would see that you're not meant to be tied down your meant to fly. And until two weeks ago you had been soaring and making me very proud to be your father…even though whenever your cars go boom its scares me half to death to think I may have lost you. Promise me one thing, while your gone please try to get some training to protect yourself when you get back." Frank held me close and gave me a big hug. "I will call when I have everything arranged. You sure you want to go to the Bahamas?" I nodded my head yes. He smiled and looked at my door. I quickly ran over peeped out the hole seeing the coast clear I opened all locks and let my dad out. He smiled as he turned to leave.

I locked everything back up and went to pack a bag for my long trip.

Hello everyone, this is my first Stephanie Plum fan fic, I hope you enjoy, I'm sorry for the bad grammar and spelling, I have no beta…and sometimes word doesn't catch all my mistakes…