A/U: What if it wasn't Rachel that ended up pregnant, married and divorced to Ranger, what if it was Stephanie. Characters are property of Janet, mixed universe is property of me… alas I make no monies off it. Not planning this to be a multi-chapter story, since I have so many already INW, but I do have some ideas of this universe... Sorry for any grammatical errors, I just like to get the ideas written down :)

RPOV

Life is going exactly as I had planned, of course there have been a couple of obstacles in my way, but nothing that I can't overcome. I am a very successful owner/businessman of Rangeman Securities and a legendary black ops mercenary. I get paid a very pretty penny to take care of the government's dirty work. Most of these jobs are dangerous, but the more danger than the higher the payday. I've used this money to build up my business and take care of my family. Not all of my family is happy with me but I love them all and do what I must for their safety.

There is only one part of my life that hasn't gone exactly as I had planned, but that's ok, I'm taking their safety my utmost importance. My ex-wife Stephanie and our daughter Julie, I love them both very much, but I can't be the man and father they both want and need without compromising on their safety. And I refuse to do that to compromise on that, I live better knowing that they are in this world even if I can't have them in my own personal world. My ex-wife, my Babe is the love of my life. I can't believe how quick our connection was, she was having a girls weekend at Atlantic City to celebrate her best friend's wedding, a bachelorette weekend and I was getting ready to go into the Ranger program. I had gone home to Newark, spend a week of leave with my parents but that fateful weekend my cousin, Lester, decided we needed to go gambling. I met Stephanie, my Babe, and we made Julie that weekend, I feel as if I won the biggest jackpot.

When I left to go to Ranger school, I had left with Stephanie's phone number and a promise to call her when I could. That was the only promise I could make her that weekend, but I held to my promise and finally got a chance to call her about 6 weeks into the program, that's when she stunned me with the news that she was pregnant. I got a four day leave approved in between ranger school and the follow up of airborne training. I went to Trenton and married her, we didn't have a honeymoon, just a couple of days at Point Pleasant. While I received my first assignment right after I completed my training, we only had one more night together before I left for a year. In that year she sent me pictures and letters telling me how she was doing and what was going on in her life. She would tell me how much she missed me and couldn't wait for me to come home. It took a year for me to come home, I missed the birth of our daughter. The time away also made me realize how volatile our world is and how I would do anything to keep these two safe. My next assignment only took me away for three months but it was that assignment I figured out how to keep them safe. I had worked with a contractor by the name of Tank and he explained how being a mercenary worked, he didn't hold anything back. That one night is what sprung the idea of Rangeman Securities, we continued to hone the idea when we could during the rest of that assignment. I told him of my wife and child, and he told me how dangerous it was for a family doing what he does, that if I wanted to become the elite of the elite I had to keep them safe. I didn't fully understand until my next assignment when I had to take out a columbian drug lord. We found the information about him through his family.

I was gone from my family for almost two years by this time, I had missed so much of Julie's life and hadn't been even been a husband to my Babe. I came home from that trip with how my life needed to be. The hardest thing I ever had to do was tell Stephanie. I laid it all out for her, I even told her parts of my classified assignments so that she would understand and hopefully not hate me. She sat there with tears streaming down her face and held me. She told me how proud she was of me, of answering our governments commands. She amazes me, on how great of a mom she is and her unwavering support of me. I don't deserve her, when I told her this she just rolled her eyes at me. She told me that it didn't matter because I had her that it didn't matter if I had to let them go to so that others didn't perceive of what we meant to each other and use our family to lash out at me. She told me that she and I knew our hearts were each others, I knew I loved her then I had already suspected my feelings for her even though we were apart from each other the majority of our relationship. But I love her completely and till the end of time I will love her. We made love that night, it was the last night we were together. We talked of our hypothetical "Someday" of us being a full time family. My heart broke the next day with pride when she filed for divorce, she loved me so much she let me go so that I could make her and Julie's world safe for them.

I was able to bring the tentative plans that Tank and I made together to fruition. We started the Miami office first, we were able to get some partners to keep us going while I got out of active duty status and move onto contract work. I became elite, I became my training, I became Ranger. Only a select few knew who I really was and why I did what I did. There became so many rumours about me when I started up each location that I didn't have to do much to keep up the personna. I wasn't suppose to set up an office in Trenton, it was supposed to be in Newark, closer to New York so that we can corner that market. I couldn't be in the same state as my wife of my heart and not open office in the same town as her. When talked our investors into Trenton with the angle it was the state capitol and could expand into Newark knocking on New York City's door. When the office opened I was seriously considering making this the main office for Rangeman, but I knew better I knew I had to keep my distance from my family. No one really connected me with Stephanie and Julie because I was hardly at home when we were married. In the three years since we were married Stephanie and Julie had changed their name to Plum. I was able to make our marriage disappear and my name as Julie's father off her records. It was as if Stephanie and Julie were never apart of my life, nor was I a part of theirs. Stephanie owed a boutique in Trenton, that seems to be all the rage with a lot of the women in the state's capital.

I found how I could keep connected to my family. By using her less than stellar cousin, Vincent Plum. Vinnie was a bound agent that needed a bounty hunter, I was able to be that bounty hunter. Everyone thought when I went to his office to scare the bejesus out of him. I was able to get information about Stephanie and Julie. He was our courier of information to each other. My Babe had even bribed him into sneaking her into his office, evidently she had some evidence about a duck. I know how valuable information is but I definitely didn't want to know about him and the duck. But that day was the beginning of our Someday. We held each other for hours on end, nothing and no one could separate us. She curled up on my lap and showed me pictures of our daughter, she showed me the drawings that she had done and even gave me some that Julie did just for me. I loved them and put them in my pocket. Next Stephanie gave me a professionally done picture of my two girls it was recent and I put that into my wallet. I guess she's had them done every month of Julie's life then every six months for the past three years. My little girl is the cutest in the world, with my darker looks and Stephanie's blue eyes. I'm in huge trouble when she starts dating.. Security will be a pain when she starts dating.

Just like I did with Tank, my Babe and I honed our plan into getting our Someday. We've been a part too much, enemies be damn. If the word on the street is that I am a dangerous man, they have no idea of what I'm capable of if they hurt my loves. We decided that we would meet at the governor's fundraiser next week and we would start to date from that meeting. I plan to woo my woman properly this time, like I should have all those years ago. I'm looking forward to our Someday more than I can put into words.