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Rangers POV:

The plane lands at a small airstrip just like the one we took off from. As we all file out of the plane I notice there are a couple of black Escalades waiting for us. I'm guessing this must be JJ's guys. There are two guys standing outside the vehicles and I notice one of them right away. Its Hawk, JJ's fly boy. The man is a genius when in the cockpit of any aircraft.

I walk over to him and we shake hands. "Hawk its good to see you again man."

"Hey man its good to see you too. Wish it was under different circumstances though. This everyone?"

I look around me noticing everyone is standing behind me waiting for introductions but they'll just have to wait. I nod to Hawk, "this is everyone." He nods in return and asks if we're ready. At my nod in affirmative we load up into the vehicles and head towards our destination.

The ride there isn't very long. About 15 mins at most. I know that Hawk won't give up details with others in the vehicle so I don't even try.

We pull up into a decent sized house with a yard. I cock my eyebrow at Hawk wondering where we are.

The house is only one level brick ranch house. There's a decent sized yard, I would have to guess about an acre at most. A pool off to the side of the house as well as a brick patio. All very modestly done. Like your typical suburban family would have. This is definitely not JJ's style. Unless he's married now with kids anyways. The last we talked he wasn't.

Hawk just laughs at my expression and says "looks can be deceiving man you know that. Who would ever think to find us in the middle of suburban hell?"

I had to agree with him.

We got out and unloaded our gear we brought with us. We walk up on the front porch Hawk hits a finger print scanner then punches a code. At least the security is decent I think.

Upon walking into the house I notice we're in what must be a living room. I see a fire place off to my left with four couches around it. Hawk tells us to just go ahead and leave our gear next to the couches and to follow him. He walks up to a wall and puts his hand on it. I'm starting to wonder if all the air time he's had is starting to affect his brain a bit until I see a pad light up that was under his hand. Next thing I know a section of the wall slides open to show us a large room behind it.

He stops in the door way and asks the occupants of the room "anyone working on anything classified at the moment?" I couldn't hear anything but he leaned back and said "alright you guys can come in but do not and I mean do not touch anything in this room. If you don't own it and weren't told directly to touch it, its not yours. Bones inside here will cut first and ask later. Understood?" We all nod and follow him in.

I hear a couple of quick breath intakes from my guys and Steph when they walked into the room. I had to agree it was quite impressive. I think they have more electronics in this room than the Pentagon security room has.

Along one wall is a row of desks. Each desk has two 30 inch monitors on it. I count 8 desks in that row. Along another wall is what appears to be security footage monitors like we have back home, however these are about five times the size of ours and there has to be at least 50 of them. All showing different cameras of what i'm not sure. It almost looks like this property. Looking around the rest of the room I notice book shelves filled with binders. I'm not exactly sure what they would hold. Who knows what all my big brother has gotten himself into. I also notice a large electronic command center map.

Hawk interrupts my inspection of the map and says "everything in this room is state of the art technology that isn't supposed to be on the market for another room. The computers can access anything you would want in the world. As you've noticed the monitors on the wall behind us, those are all the security cameras around the property and inside the buildings. We are sitting on about 30 acres of land. There's a tunnel system underground that will take you anywhere you could want on the property and some places off the property. However if you don't know your way around I would advise you not to even try. You will get lost. They are set up so that unless you have been navigating them for years you need a hand held tracking device to find the way. There are lights on the floor that will light up with the device once you've programmed in your destination. However like most of everything on the property in order to get in or use something you have to use either fingerprint or hand print scan and your specialized pass code. So don't think about going somewhere without someone with you because your not in the system and you could be stuck there for a long time. We'll see you on the monitors but unless its an emergency your stupid ass will be left there. Understood?" We all nod our understanding to him.

Hawk then turns to the map I was looking at and touches it. Everything goes blank. Interesting its a touch screen. Man JJ you have some awesome toys I think to myself.

I look over to Hector and notice he's shaking with excitement at seeing this room. Hector loves his electronics.

"On this we can bring up maps of anything and everything. If there is an area that you need information on this is we're we go. Its direct link to the satellites that are out in space. We can zoom into a mile away from anything and anywhere. After that mile mark we can zoom in more but the further you zoom in the more distortion you get of the image."

As Hawk finished telling us about the map the wall that we came in thru opened up and in walked JJ. He came right to me and stuck out his hand to me.

"Little brother you don't know how happy I am to see you here."

I look him over he's looks in bad shape. Whatever has happened has taken its toll on him for sure.

"Big bro you know you can call me anytime. I will always come to you. Let me introduce you to my team. The big man is Tank, he's my right hand man has my back always. Next to him is our medic Bobby Brown, then Ram my sniper. Woody next, if it can be drove or flown he can do it. If the engine don't start he can fix it. Next to him is Cal, he can fix or destroy anything. Next to Cal is Hector, he's my electronics wiz. Boots does a little bit of everything but his specialty is tracking. This is Steph, she has an uncanny ability to figure out any puzzle no matter what the situation is. Her intuition rivals mine and Lester's when she listens to it. And of course you know our weasel of a cousin Les."

As I say that JJ walks over to Les and grabs him for a tight hug. JJ always treated Lester like another little brother.

They break up and JJ turns to everyone, "Its nice to meet you all. I thank you for coming with to help on this matter. I'm sorry we are meeting under the circumstances but it is what it is. I'm JJ, Rangers oldest brother. Welcome to my home away from home most times. I'll give you all a tour later since its almost chow time around here. As you know the big ugly guy behind me is Hawk. The guy over on the computer right now we call him Tom Tom. Like the gps unit. I have 8 members of my crew. One of which is missing and the reason you are all here. I'll get into details after we all eat. I will introduce the others as they come and go. All together we have about 45 other members that work and or stay here. Now that that is over let us head over to the galley and eat shall we?"

With that he heads to the wall/ door. We follow JJ down a short hallway off the living room that brings us to a set of stairs that head downward. I knew there had to be another level this place.

We proceed down another hallway and I notice along the way that we passed a bunch doors and a few other hallways.

This place is most definitely deceiving to the outsider.

We reach the galley and its a large room set up just like any other galley with a buffet along one wall. We each grab a plate full of food and head over to take seats. While eating, I notice everything is quiet. Most of all Steph is quiet. I can't help but to wonder what is going on in that mind of hers.

After we finish our food and put away our dirty dishes we follow JJ into a conference room. It looks just like the ones we have back at Rangeman. We all take a seat and JJ starts in telling us whats going on.

" As I stated one of my team members is missing. We took on a mission a few months back. I'm not going to go into details because most of it is classified. Everything was going good. Mission was about completed so we broke group slowly when each member had completed their part of it to regroup back at the extraction point. Seven of us made it. Rough was missing. This is nothing unusual for our group. Rough always stays back to make sure everyone gets away safe and clear then makes sure we have everything that is needed to complete the mission. No loose ends I guess you could say. We waited as long as we could but then had to leave to head back home here. Two weeks later I got word from Rough that everything was ok but there was a last minute problem that needed to be taken care of. Rough told me that everything should be good to go in another week. That was two months ago."

As JJ told us a brief over view of what was going on I noticed that he was truly worried. Its not like him to worry much about things in life.

I decided we needed to figure out a bit more to go off of. "Alright now that you gave us a quick over view. I know who most of your team is but who is Rough? Where was the last contact made from? What kind of contact was it and how long was it? You know the drill on this JJ."

JJ sighs and looks at me, "you and Les know who Rough is. However, she didn't go by that name then. She didn't get it until she made Seals training. Its Cat little brother. Cat is Rough. I can't tell everyone where the mission was until its cleared by the Admiral. But I can tell you the last contact I got from her was here typical video to Cole. The problem with the fact that it was her typical form is that these videos were always bounced thru Puerto Rico. Sent by email. Encrypted beyond that. I've had everyone I can think of who is even remotely computer literate try and back track it but Cat set this up herself so that I couldn't be back tracked. Its set up so that if the video is accessed by anyone other than Cole on his own computer it disappears to never be seen again. It can't be traced here nor can it be traced to her."

I was trying to process everything that JJ had just said.

It was Cat! She was in danger!

I looked over to Les to see how he was handling this news. He was shocked you could say that. The look on his face would have been priceless had it been a different situation.

He stood up and walked over to the wall. Put his hands up against it and dropped his head. I knew exactly how he felt. I was feeling the same way.

At some point Hawk and another guy came into the room with us.

Les turned around and I could hardly believe my eyes. He had tears streaming down his face. He looked at JJ and said "I need either a gym or a gun range now! Either or will work." JJ nodded and looked at the new guy.

"This is Marcus he'll take you to them. The range is right next to the gym. Shoot the shit outta some targets then do work in the gym. Have him page me if you need anything else."

I was in shock. I didn't know what to do, how to do it or when to do it. I was sitting there struggling with keeping my blank mask on so that everyone else didn't see my torment. I was their leader. I needed to keep it together. I had to get her back but in order to do it I needed to stay in control.

Tank must have noticed because he looked to JJ and ask " Tell us about Rough. What does she look like, how does she act, what would she do if things went south wherever she's at?"

JJ cleared his throat looked at me and asked if I wanted to join Les. I shook my head yes. I needed to do something to clear these emotions out so I could get to work. I figured I didn't need to hear about here right now. Figuring the less I heard about her the easier time I would have focusing on the mission at hand. I could learn about her after we get her back. I just needed to focus.

Hawk spoke up and said he would take me to the range. I followed him out of the room and down a few hallways. I wasn't paying attention to where we were going because my thoughts where too jumbled up.

We reached the range and Hawk handed me two 9 mm sig sauers and four fully loaded clips. I checked the clips in both of the guns. They were fully loaded as well. So I had six clips fully loaded to unload into the targets down the lane from me.

I lined up and unloaded both guns simultaneously. I probably should have put on protection but I needed the pain from not only the recoil of the gun but also from the sound.

Before I started shooting I lined the clips up on their ends so I could reload faster.

I blew thru all six clips like it was nothing. I put the guns down and just leaned against the partition. Hawk walked up behind me and reeled my target in. The head was completely missing as was a three inch hole where the heart should be.

Hawk rested his hand on my shoulder and said "Come on man lets go to the gym. I'll spar with ya for a bit."

I looked up at him and just had to laugh. I wasn't sure if it was actually funny or if the stress of who was in trouble was causing hysterics already.

I followed him out of the range across the hall to the gym. It was huge in here. I was in awe. This room blew anything at Rangeman out of the water that's for sure. I noticed there were three rings in the middle of the room. Les was in one sparring with Marcus. They were going pretty hard at it. No holding back.

We got into an empty ring and I started to strip down. I looked up at Hawk as we got in, "I don't think I can hold back man. I don't want to hurt you so please don't let me get away with anything."

He just laughs at me and says "Boy, I may be old but I could still kick the shit outta your snot nosed ass. I've been beating the shit outta guys like you since you were in diapers. Get over here and lets get this started." I laughed a little. I knew what he was doing and he did it. His comment was meant to lessen the tension surrounding us. With that out of the way we started circling each other and the match was on.

An hour and a half later I found myself flat on my back staring up at a grinning Hawk.

"See boy I told you I could whoop your ass."

He reached a hand down to help me up. I grabbed it and laughed as he pulled me up. "How'd you know man?" He paused and looked at me. A genuine smile came across his face when he replied, "Its because I knew you weren't focused on the match. Your mind was else where fighting with itself. Part wanted to pay attention to our match but the other part was waging war with the thoughts of Cat. I knew I could take you in this state. However I am man enough to say that had you had your full focus on me I wouldn't have stood a chance. You've done good for yourself man."

He clapped me on the shoulder, turned me in the directions of the locker rooms and gave me a shove while saying, "No shoo go shower yourself you stink boy!"

Just as I started walking to go do just that I heard a bunch of snickering behind me. I turned around to see who it was and sure enough it was all the guys I brought with me and Steph standing there. I wonder how long they where there. Shit if I don't get my head on straight soon I'm gonna be in deep trouble.

Steph walked up to me, wrapped her arms around my waist and looked up at me as she leaned her head against my shoulder, "you feel better now?"

I thought about it for a minute. Did I feel better? Ya I guess I did. So I shook my head yes to her and wrapped my arms around her as well. She shrieked and jumped away from me. "Eww your all sweaty and you do stink. I think you should go take that shower now batman." Her eyes were twinkling with laughter as she said this to me so I knew she was only messing with me. I had to have a little bit of fun with her. After everything so far. I'm sure she was feeling a bit left out and maybe neglected.

I grabbed a towel off the bench acting as if I was gonna use it to wipe off some. She turned around and started to walk back towards all the guys. Just the opening I was looking for. I snapped the towel at her and hit my mark. Dead center of her right ass cheek. She shrieked and turned to glare at me. I curled up my lips in a slight grin and told her, "If I were you Babe I would run. I think this towel just might have a few snaps left in it." With that she just stared at me until I started to twirl the towel around to get it ready for another round. She turned and ran.

I chased after her around the room. She ran out the door and down the hall a bit in the opposite direction from the way we came in here. I was gaining on her just as I knew I would. I looked a little further down the hall and noticed a big pool. I sped up a bit and caught her. Tossed her over my shoulder and ran down the rest of the way to the pool and jumped in with her in my arms.

We came up from the water and she was spitting and sputtering. She glared at me and then looked around. I couldn't hold it in anymore I started out right laughing.

"I can't believe you just did that!"

I swam the little ways over to her and grabbed her around the waist. She wrapped her arms and legs around me. When I stopped my laughing I just looked into her eyes. I could clearly read that even though she was acting upset she was happy. That's all I want. I leaned in and gave her a gentle kiss as I started to swim us over to the wall.

I lifted her up out of the water and was crawling out when she got an evil grin on her face and pushed me back in.

I come up out of the water and asked her if she enjoyed that. She grinned and nodded her head yes. I smiled at her in return. I want her to have a few happy moments before we get into things too deep here.

We head back towards the gym so that I can shower.

JJ must have seen me chasing Steph towards the pool area because when we got back to the gym both of our bags where at his feet. He was grinning ear to ear. "So little brother did she kick your ass too?" I chuckled a little and shook my head as I grabbed my bag and headed towards the shower.