Chapter Two: Ranger's Second Chance

Ranger finished talking with Roger he said, "Put her on now". He was pacing between the table and the chair that was in the plane.

"Sure boss."

"Carlos, where are you?" she asked him. She was sitting on an examing bed in a small 8 by 10 room.

"Babe are you and the baby all right?" He asked as gently as he could.

"Yes, where are you!" She yelled.

"I am in a Rangeman Jet, and we are just about to land in Atlanta." He was looking at Atlanta airport as he was talking to her. "I will pick you up at Atlanta Memorial Hospital"

Ranger hung up the phone with a soft look on his face. Tank looked around for the old grumpy Ranger that was around him for the past five months.

"You should probably shave." Tank said.

Ranger felt his face as he was walking to the bathroom, he looked at the mirror over the sink. "Wow, why did you not tell me it was that bad." He looked at the five-inch beard that he had been growing.

"I tried to tell you Carlos, but you were not listening" Tank told him as Ranger was looking at himself in the mirror.

"Bobby, get to the hospital and exam Stephanie, I will be there shortly." Ranger told him. "I have to get cleaned up." He shut the door to the bathroom of the private jet and got in the shower.

"Atlanta Memorial Hospital step on it." Bobby told the driver.

Bobby looked out of the windows and saw the city lights.

"Just a little different here" he said to himself.

Five minutes later he was at Atlanta Memorial Hospital.

Bobby walked up to the desk.

"Hi, my name is Bobby from Rangeman I am here to see Stephanie Plum." He told the person behind the desk.

"Okay I will let the doctor know he will be out in a minute." The person said. He picked up the phone and called the doctor.

Bobby was looking out of the window and seeing all the ambulances coming and going into this hospital. "It is a maze here." He told himself.

"Yes, it is hi, I am Dr. Peterson Miss. Plum is doing very well, even tough she is having some morning sickness still. Bobby looked at the Doctor. "Any chance I can take a look at her" Bobby asked the doctor. "I am a doctor at Rangeman in Trenton New Jersey."

"Of course, she is right in here" Bobby followed Dr. Peterson through a hall way that had patients on both sides of the hall. He could see family members with their sick relatives. He wondered how many of these patients would make it out alive.

The good doctor knocked on an exam room door. "Come in" Bobby heard Steph say.

He opened the door. She had her head down and was throwing up in a basin bowl.

"Sweet heart" Bobby softly told her.

"Bobby, I missed you where is Ranger?" She asked. He could smell the choline and the bleach. He looked and saw she was sitting on an exam table.

"He will be here soon" He told her. He walked up to her opened his bag, and said, "Can I take some blood?"

"Sure" she stuck her arm out, she was wearing a worn out white t shirt. He then noticed the holes in her jeans.

"Can you please get her a pair of scrubs." He told the doctor.

"Of course, right away." The doctor left, while he was gone.

Ranger was just coming into the ER department. "I am Carlo Manoso and I am here for Miss. Stephanie Plum."

"Ranger" Roger came out from behind the ER doors.

"He is with us, come on she is this way." Roger told him. Ranger followed him to Stephanie.

Ranger walked silently through the hallways looking at the patients that were in the hallways waiting for services.

He saw Bobby outside of her room talking to one of her nurses.

Bobby turned around and saw Ranger.

"Hey Boss, she is okay a little dehydrated, so we are giving her fluids. We took blood once that is clear she is free to go. Go ahead she wants to see you" bobby told his boss.

Ranger took a deep breath and opened the door to the exam room.

He peeked his head in he saw her sleeping the best she could on an exam bed.

He closed the door again, "What boss" Tank asked him.

" I got machine guns going in my stomach" Ranger told them. He looked around the hallway again.

"Go on Carlos, go be with her she is back, and we will do everything we can to keep you two together" Tank reassured him.

"Okay I am going in." Ranger opened the door, walked into the exam room. He could smell the choline and Bleach in there. He saw a counter with some IV supplies that were used up. He walked over to the chair and took her hand.

She opened her eyes. "Hey there batman" she said with a sparkle in her blue eyes.

He wiped the tears from her eyes and leaned over and kissed her a deep long kiss.