Authors Notes: Please read them before moving onto the first chapter and then the following chapters.
The Stephanie Plum Novel series belongs to Janet Evanovich. I make no claim to own her characters, or any of the locations mentioned within her books. I am using them for a bit of fun, and will promptly return all but Ranger. I'm keeping him ;)
The first chapter was written as a response to a challenge posted on the "BabeFic" livejournal community, I warped the idea, and, as I'm not very fond of song-fics, I took only a few key lines and wove them into my story.
It gave me a tone I was happy to work with, and the story came from there.
This story, will jump in time somewhat, over about fifty years, though, I have no intention of bringing in any "Mary Sue/Stu" Characters. This is a Plumverse fic, and I'll keep it that way. I get confused enough with the current characters as it is ;)
"Precious Girl" is intended as the beginning of the second chapter onwards; to work out exactly how Ranger and Steph got to that place we found them in, in the first chapter. It is short, though the next chapters will be longer. I adore reading long fics myself.
I hope you enjoy it; it's my first foray into writing Plumverse fic. Though not my first fan fiction. Comment greedy authors irritate me, if you like it? Or really despise it? You'll comment. If not? Not a problem.
Also, my darlings, as fair warning, I am not an American, so my spelling is likely at times to be off. However, I'm making every attempt at "Americanising" this story for the sake of continuity. I'm also going along with Janet's time policy, where Steph seems to be perpetually the same age. ;)
Alrielira