Viva La Gabby! By Jerseygirlinoxford (sue)
Ber's Easter Challenge on Rangeman Writers
Okay…this is for you Ber….because you asked so nicely!
This is a little Gabby short that takes place after Daddy's Little Girl but before Uncle Lester's Princess.
Ranger finished getting ready for work and began to look for the two most important women in his life. He found Stephanie in the kitchen sneaking bites of Ella's chocolate cake out of the refrigerator. "I thought I took care of all those urges last night, Babe." She peered over the open door and gave him a guilty smile.
"All I really need is love, Ranger," she told him before shoving a large piece of the decadent sweetness into her mouth. "But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." That and she was going to need energy to help calm down Ranger when he saw Gabby's new artwork. Even though Gabby's picture of Ranger and Mr. Salamone helped to land him the new account, Ranger was not pleased with Gabby's anatomically-correct stick-figure rendition. With some help from Grandma Mazur, Gabby's latest obsession with certain body parts was getting a little out of hand. Thank God she was too young for school. She could only imagine the look on the teacher's face when she saw Gabby's naked stick figures. They would have DYFS (Department of Youth and Family Services) on them in a New York minute.
"Where's Gabby? It's too quiet in here." Stephanie gave him a peck on the cheek.
"She wanted to help Ella set up breakfast in the break room." She didn't know if she should warn Ranger or let him see it for himself. Either way, Ranger was going to have a stroke. The Merry Men had gotten such a kick out of Gabby's drawing the other day that they encouraged her to draw all of them. And of course, Gabby being Gabby, she was so excited and more than happy to do it. Not only was she downstairs helping Ella, she was decorating Ranger's 5th floor office with her drawings.
"I'll see you on 5," he told her and headed out. Stephanie called the Control Room.
"He's on his way," she told Hal. She hurried to the bedroom to quickly dress and get downstairs. She didn't want to miss this.
The chatter on the floor came to a halt when Ranger exited the elevator. He nodded a greeting to Hal and Ram at the monitor bay. Lester and Bobby kept their heads down when he walked passed their cubicle. Woody and Junior ducked back into the break room. Ranger grabbed his mail and went onto his office. There sat Gabby in his chair eating a cookie. Steph had her hair in those cute little pig tails. She was wearing a pink jumper, white turtle neck, and pink Reebok sneakers. She called them her BeBops. She looked up and gave him that amazing smile. "Hi Daddy!" His heart melted. "I gots a surprise for you. Look!" She pointed to the wall behind him. He walked over and picked her up before turning around. "I love you!" She smacked on his lips.
"I love you too, Gabby." He turned to face where she had pointed and froze. The wall was covered with Gabby's drawings of all his men. It was like a stick-figured Playgirl magazine layout. "Fuck me," he muttered.
"Daddy! You're not 'aposta say fuck! You said that was a bad word!" Gabby scolded him. He gently put her down.
"S-sorry, Gabby." He was in shock. His and Mr. Salamone's picture was there too. He still had the smallest penis out of all of them. Damn! She was even more creative this time around. Some of the penises were erect. Some were flaccid. His was erect and still the smallest. He looked down at his little girl. She smiled back and stood there proudly.
"See Daddy…this is Uncle Tank…and that's his penis. This is Ram and that's his penis…." She continued on but her words faded away. Ranger suddenly developed a sharp pain in the side of his head. He watched her as she went through his whole first shift line up. He felt a gentle tapping on his thigh. Looking down, her smile lit up her face. "I drawed those for you. I love you, Daddy."
"I…uh…love you too, Gabby." He finally noticed Steph and the Merry Men in the doorway.
"She really worked hard on those drawings," Lester joked.
"She erected them all by herself," Woody added.
"They're all pretty well hung," Ram continued. Stephanie snorted. Ranger wasn't laughing. Connecting Gabby with anything penis-related just wasn't funny to him.
"And you gots to keep them on your wall all day, Daddy!" Gabby insisted. Shit.
"Why don't we go next door and have breakfast?" Stephanie suggested.
"Yea! Breakfast. Come on, Daddy!" The men went back to their stations. Gabby ran for the break room. Stephanie walked over to Ranger and put her arms around him.
"She really did work hard on those pictures," she told him softly. Ranger sighed.
"I know. Why couldn't it have been rainbows? I know rainbows are gay but…." She cut him off with a kiss.
"You would use a kiss to betray me," he whispered. He kissed her back. He stared ruefully at the naked stick figures. "And why is my penis the smallest? I'm bigger than all of them…except Tank!"
"Do you want to explain that to your three and a half year old daughter?"
"No," he agreed after thinking it over. He looked at the Wall of Shame again. "It's only going to get harder as she gets older…isn't it?" Stephanie hugged him again.
"Probably," Steph agreed, "but the unconditional love and joy that she brings us will be well worth it." Ranger hugged her back and smiled. No argument there. He loved his little girl with all his heart. Arm in arm, they went to join Gabby for breakfast.
The End…..for now
Word count 993
okay if fixed this. don't know what happened to all my punctuation when i first posted this.