It was a year after the twins were born and both myself with Ranger were extremely happy. I was so excited. I was making a nice salad and fish that Ella taught me how to make. I had supper in the oven when Ranger came in. He kissed the kids on their heads, and then walked over to me and gave me a passionate kiss.
"Ranger something is wrong, what is it?" Steph asked him
"I have to go to Cuba for the army for a while and I don't know if I will make it back or not?" Ranger told her.
"Well we will just have to put off the twins birthday party until you come back that is all, I don't want you to miss their first birthday coming up." Steph told him.
"I know I would hate that too. I can't believe they will be a year old on Saturday" Ranger told her. Then
Steph put her arms around her husband and then took him into their bedroom. She undid his shirt and kissed him on his chest.
He lifted her to the bed and took off her top and then pants. Steph helped Ranger with his cargo pants and then they had one last night together before Ranger left in the morning.
The next morning Ranger said good bye to the twins, when he held them one last time and then he gave Steph a kiss and then walked out of the apartment. He got to the 1st floor command room and saw Tank who was waiting for him.
"Will you take care of them for me, especially if I don't comeback?" Ranger asked his good friend.
"Of course I will, I promise." Tank said and then they left Rangemen to go to the airport.
Eight weeks later
Steph went down to the control room to see if she could find Tank, she really needed to talk to him about what just happened. She had gotten a call from Dr. Bozeman, and it turns out that she is eight weeks pregnant.
"Where is Tank?" Steph asked Hal who was in the control room.
"I think he is in the gym" Hal answered her, "Is there anything I can do?" Hal then asked Steph
"No, I need to talk to Tank about this" Steph told him and then she walked out of the control room and down to the gym.
Steph found Tank punching the punching bag.
"Hey there, after you are done punching that bag, I need to talk to you" Steph said to Tank
"Sure thing where and when" Tank said to Steph
"In the apt in about an hour or so." Steph said and then she walked away.
Tank stopped on the bag and said to himself, "I wonder what is going on now?"
An hour later
Tank knocked on Ranger's apt door.
"It is open" Steph said.
Tank entered the dining room and sat down at the table he saw Steph pull up a chair, after she put Martin in the jumper.
"I got a call about an hour ago from Dr. Bozeman. I am eight weeks pregnant. It must have happened the night before Ranger left. I don't want the whole company to know about this pregnancy until Ranger comes home. I have some concerns about this apartment it is so small it will not hold another body in here. Will you help me find a house that my family will feel comfortable in?" Steph asked Tank
"I would be honored to help you with that." Tank said
"One more thing can you let Ella know that I am pregnant so if I need her she will be there for me?"
"Absolutely I would love to." Tank said and then added, "I will contact my relator and let her know, but I need to know how many rooms you want for this house?"
"I am not sure, I don't want it to be as big as the bat cave where ever that is, but I want Ranger to be comterble in it. So that is why I asked you for your help, you know him better than I do right now, I am still getting used to being his wife even after we have been married for two years now." Stephanie told him.
"I will find something that both of you will love." Tank said and then he left the apt for Steph to rest.
Two weeks later
Tank came up to Steph's cubby on floor four.
"Hey there sweet thing, I found some information that you asked for, when do you want to go and look over that information?" Tank asked her.
"how about you come over for dinner tonight, and we can go over everything then, and you can spend time with your god children." Stephanie told him.
"Deal" Tank Said to her
That evening there was a knock at Ranger's door.
"It is open" Steph said.
Tank came in and gave her a quick hug and then asked, "With all this going on how are you feeling?" Tank asked her.
"A little tired, the twins are really starting to be mobile right now so they are always on the go." Steph said as she was started to feed Martin.
Tank sat down and picked up Michelle who was now making sounds.
"Well is this the folder with some houses for sale?" Steph asked
"YUP, some good ones too." Tank said as he opened the folder to the first house.
"Here is a four room house, with a yard and a large gate around the yard for privacy." Tank said as he showed some pictures of the beige two story house with the yard.
"Ranger gave up his office for the twins, I would like to give that back to him so he could work from home again like he did before." Steph said and then asked, "What else do you have?"
"Well there is a house with seven rooms, not including the kitchen the two bathroom and the dining room and that have a high fenced in yard, a pool and a swing set. It is also a couple of blocks away from the bat cave so Ranger could go there when he needed some space or time to himself. He could also have his office back in this house too but the outside of the house needs a little work as you can see." Tank told Stephanie.
Steph looked at the outside of the house and saw the shutters were falling off on some of the windows and the brown paint that covered the house was peeling.
"I would like to have a look at this house, and if I like it make an offer on it how much are they asking for it?" Steph asked Tank.
"About a hundred thousand" Tank told her.
"I would have to put a mortgage on the house I don't have that kind of money" Steph told him.
"But Ranger does, and he would want you to be happy I have access to some of his money enough to purache this house if you like it." Tank said.
"I don't want to take his money without talking to him first." Steph told Tank.
"Steph he made me promise to take care of you and that is what I am trying to do, he would want you to be happy and if this is what you want let him provide for his family." Tank told her.
"Alright, make an apt with the relator so we can have a look at this house in the next couple of days." Steph told him
"You got it besides it will give him something to work on when he is not working here or when he is home." Tank said to her it would also be good excise for him to do some work around the house." He added.
"Alright you convinced me" Steph told him
"You got it" and then Tank kissed the kids on the top of the head and then left the apt.