I would like to say a very BIG thank you to Financeable who's beautifully written stories gave me the courage to try and write my own and to FairTaxGirl who agreed to edit it for me.

Disclaimer: I am not Janet, there for I don't own any of the characters. I do however plan to play with them a little.

Stephanie's POV

It took every last bit of control not to run into my burning apartment. The fact that Hector was holding me to his chest as Bobby tried to give me a sedative was another reason. Ram currently had Rex wrapped up in his coat watching with the rest of us as my apartment building slowly burned to the ground. For once it truly wasn't my fault. One of my elderly neighbours had fallen asleep and had left their gas stove on. Apart from that no one actually knew how the fire had actually started.

I felt the needle sink into my skin just as the roof collapsed. I watched as everything I owned burned to the ground through hazy eyes. I slow found myself starting to lose consciousness as Bobby's voice filled my ears. "Tank has given us permission to take her up to the cabin for a few days." Those were the last words I heard before I fell under the power of the sedative.

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I had no idea how long I slept before waking up in a strange bed. I didn't bother moving from my warm heaven, letting the last month roll over me.

It all started during one of my weekly dinner visits to my parent's house.

"I don't see why you can't just settle down with Joe." My mum began. "It's not like you are getting any younger, Stephanie."

It took everything in me not to bang my head against the table. Joe, my on-again and now definitely off-again boyfriend, and I had called it quits after yet another full blown argument after my latest skip blew up my car just days before. The thing is my mother knew this because I had to listen to her 100 missed calls on my answering machine. I wished that my Grandma Mazur was still with us. Unfortunately, she had joined Grandpa Mazur in heaven more than two months ago. I missed her more than anything, especially on days like today.

"Mum you know that is never going to happen. I don't want to get married again, in fact ever again! Look at what happened with Dickie."

Of course that meant I had to listen to her tell me that was entirely my fault and if only I knew how to cook and be a proper wife then Dickie wouldn't have needed to go elsewhere. I ended up leaving before dessert and I haven't spoken with her since.

A week later I found out that my best friend, and one of the men that held a part of my heart, Ranger, had permanently moved to Miami. After Scog, Ranger wanted to be more involved in Julie's life and he couldn't do that very well living in Trenton. My spidery senses told me there was more to it but I wasn't up to arguing with Tank.

After hearing that piece of news, I slowly found myself fading away. Everyone whoever truly understood my dreams had one by one faded away. Lula was the only one left but even she wasn't around as much as she used to be. She was getting ready to marry Tank and had agreed to take a step back from bounty hunting.

I didn't realise that I had started to cry, let alone made any form of noise, until I suddenly found myself sandwiched between Bobby and Lester.

"Shh, it's okay, Beautiful, let it all out," Lester whispered in my ear.

I have no idea how long I remained wrapped up in their arms, but by the time I had finished crying, Hector and Ram had both joined us and I was surrounded by my Merry Men. The only one that was missing was Cal. I must have said something out loud because Lester's voice floated through the silence

"Cal, will be here at sunset, Beautiful. We're all on leave until further notice."

I slowly sat up before using the blanket to wipe the wetness from my face. I knew I probably looked like a mess what with me being covered in ash from the fire last night as well as snot from my little break down. It was Bobby that came to my rescue

"Lester picked you up some stuff on his way here. Why don't you go have a shower and meet us out back when you're ready?"

I nodded my head while Bobby helped me out of the tangle of bed sheets and Merry Men before pushing me towards what I assumed was the bathroom. After answering Mother Nature's call, I made my way slowly to the shower. I couldn't stop the smile that crossed my face as my eyes landed on the shower stuff Lester had brought me. A week into my downward spiral, after finding out about Ranger, Lester had found me shower gel that smelled like Tasty Cakes.

I had no idea how long I stayed in the shower, letting the sweet smell bring me comfort, but I knew sooner rather than later I would have to get out and face my guys. Wait, are they my guys? The more I thought about it I came to the conclusion that yeah, they are my guys.

Lester was always there making me smile. He even came to Grandma Mazur's funeral and gave a little speech that made everyone laugh. I knew she would have been happy about that. Bobby was always there to fix me up if I ever had a scrape. It then occurred to me that Hector, Ram and Cal were always in the background somewhere helping me or just giving me their support.

The weeks after the incident with my mother, and Ranger leaving, one of them would always come over and make sure I was all right. Hector even went so far as to learn English so he could have conversations with me. On more than one occasion, I awoke to find Bobby and Lester had crawled into bed with me.

Getting out the shower, I found someone had brought me one of their shirts and a towel. Holding it up to my nose I couldn't stop myself from letting out a low sigh as the Ram's smell hit me. After taking some time to make myself somewhat presentable, finding a change of clean boxers, that from the size I took to be Hector's, I followed my nose to the back deck.

It was Ram who noticed me first and opened his arms inviting me to come and climb onto his lap. Letting a smirk cross my face, I did a small running jump causing him to let out a low laugh before he placed a kiss on the top of my unruly hair. Hector let out a low laugh causing me to give him a look of shock causing him to laugh even more. In retaliation I stuck my tongue out him causing Lester to speak up

"Beautiful, unless you want to show us what you can do with that tongue of yours I suggest that you put it back in your mouth."

I rolled my eyes at him before sticking my tongue back out at him again squealing as Lester tried to bite it. This caused the others to laugh at our antics. It was then I noticed that Bobby held God's best ever creations in his hands, coffee and Boston Cream buns.

"Honey I am going to put them down slowly, just don't attack me. Well not unless you want me to attack you back."

I tilted my head to one side before pulling out my sex kitten voice. "I might take you up on that offer if you're not careful."

I had to bite my bottom lip to stop myself from laughing at the look of lust that crossed over Bobby's face before he could stop it.

Two cups of coffee, several heavenly Boston Creams and four very aroused men later, it occurred to me that I had no idea where I was. As if his ESP kicked in, Lester wiggled in his seat before he spoke.

"This is actually my home beautiful. I brought it years ago and try to come up here as much as possible." Okay that explains who's house it was, but not the where part.

"We are just outside Rochester beautiful. I come up here on my time off. It means I can get away from everything and just relax. Bobby and Cal also have keys to the place and use it time from time as well."

I nodded my head before leaning back so I was cradled in Ram's arms. We sat around most of the day talking about my latest skips as well as Tanks and Lula's upcoming wedding.

"I am just happy that Connie and I managed to talk her out of leopard print bridesmaid dresses. Instead, we managed to convince her that a deep red would do. However, the dresses are skin tight and the low cut means it will take everything Connie and I have not to fall out of them."

I found myself having to bite my lip yet again. This time it was to stop a wanting moan from slipping out as I felt how much Ram liked the sound of my dress. In fact, the way that the others were wiggling in their seats Ram wasn't the only one.

We) sat on the back deck overlooking the lake. It wasn't until my stomach growled that I noticed the sun was setting and that the beast could smell pizza.

A moment later, Cal walked out holding at least eight pizzas causing the beast to let out another growl. Before I could even think what I was doing, I jumped off Ram's knee and threw myself at Cal, or more importantly the food causing, everyone to laugh.

"Missed you too Bomber. If I had known that bringing you food would get you to jump me I would have done so much earlier."

I found myself blushing at his words before I stood on my tip toes and placed a kiss on his flaming skull tattoo. I've always wanted to get a tattoo and was hoping that Cal would come with me to hold my hand. I've heard horror stories about the pain but, at the same time, I've also heard that it could be quite an experience. I must have spoken aloud without realising it because Cal suddenly spoke

"It is Bomber, and yeah, once you work out what you want I will go with you. But for now let's feed the beast."

I smiled up at him, kissed his tattoo one last time, snatched the pizza out of his hands and skipped back to the other guys. I found myself being pulled into Bobby's lap this time. He declared it was his time for some Stephanie love. His actions caused Ram to sulk before snagging the largest piece of my pizza right out of my hands.

"That wasn't fair, Ram," I teased, "I thought you loved me." I pulled out my best puppy dog face before faking a sniffle causing Ram to look guilty.

"You know I will share it with you, if you come and sit on my lap again," Ram tried to bargain.

I pouted again as Bobby tightened his hold on me before handing me another piece of pizza. He muttered a soft 'mine' causing the rest of the guys to let out soft growls.

"I belong to all of you."

It was Lester who took that moment to speak. "Do you mean that Beautiful? Do you belong to us? Each and every one of us?"

I thought about it for a moment, remembering my thoughts from earlier, before nodding my head in agreement. "Only if you only belong to me, us, whatever we have. I can't stand having my heart broken again. First Dickie, then Joe and well you all know about Ranger."

I watched as they all nodded their heads before I found myself being turned around so my face was cradled in Bobby's hands. "I can only speak for myself when I say I don't plan on ever letting you go now that I have you. I have loved you for a long time."

I could hear the others agreeing in the background but found myself too busy to respond as Bobby brushed his lips against mine. He tasted of wintergreen lifesavers and beer. I found myself having to pull away in order to breath, only for Lester to capture my mouth with his. By the time I had been passed around, with Hector being the last one to kiss me, I was out of breath and my Hungarian hormones were wide awake and ready to go.

"As much as we want to go further with you Baby, the pizza is getting cold and we want to take things slowly. If we are going to make this work, there are things we need to talk about."

I nodded my head at Ram's words before allowing Bobby to feed me a piece of his pizza. For the first time in weeks I was actually happy and at peace with myself.