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Ranger POV:
"Everything was fine until one day at school, I must have been about 14 years old., Jason the bully in my class was picking on me. We were outside on the play ground. I wasn't sure why all of a sudden he started in on me but something had set him in my direction. He was trying to get me upset enough to fight him. I didn't want to get into a fight because I knew if I did Poppa would be mad at me. He was always telling us that if someone tries to get you to fight to use your words and walk away. He didn't like violence at all. It wasn't allowed in our home."
"When I started walking away, Jason pushed me and I fell. Just as I was rolling over onto my back to look up I saw this blur of brown hair fly past me and latch onto Jason's back. I stood up and noticed it was Cat. She had jumped on Jason's back and had him in a choke hold. Little arms wrapped as tight as possible around his neck cutting off his air. When he started to fall to the ground she jumped down and walked over to me. Walking around me checking to see if I was alright. I couldn't figure out how she got to me so quickly because she should have been in her classroom with Les."
"As Jason started to get up she walked over and kicked him in the stomach as hard as possible flipping him on his back. She looked down at him and said ' its not nice to pick on people' then she spit on him. I wrapped my arm around her shoulder and started to lead her back into the school to get her back to class. I asked her how she knew to come to me. She just shrugged her shoulders and said 'I felt it inside me. That you were in trouble."
I glanced at the clock and saw how late it was. We need to get some sleep. I squeezed Steph in my arms a little bit and with a sigh on my lips told her we needed to get some sleep. "Its late Babe. We need to get some sleep. I promise I'll tell you more tomorrow. Believe it or not I kind of got lost in my memories. But I wanted to make sure you had an idea as to the bond that we had started at such a young age."
With that I laid us down. Laying on my back I pulled Steph into my side. I could tell she had thoughts running rampant in her head. I kissed her head and whispered into her hair "sleep Babe. We'll talk more tomorrow."
She sat up a little to look into my eyes. Putting her palm on the side of my face, she leaned in and gave me a gentle kiss on the lips. "Thank you Ranger for tell me all of that. I can't even begin to imagine what she had to have gone thru. But you saved her. I know you beat yourself up at times for things you have done. I see it in your eyes when you think I'm not looking. Your a savior Ranger. Plain and simple. You can't save everyone in the world. But you've done your fair share that's for sure. You've saved me numerous times. You saved Cat when she was so very young. You'll save her again I'm sure of it. I'm here with you, by your side. Lean on me when you need it Batman."
I reached up with both hands, tangling them in her curly mess. I let her see in my eyes all the worry I had for my old friend, all the pain I had inside knowing that Cat was in trouble, but most of all I let show the love and thankfulness I had for Steph being here with me right now.
I didn't know how much I needed to hear her sweet words of encouragement. I leaned up to kiss her. Show her with more than just my eyes, just how much not only her words but her self in general meant to me.
Breaking away from the kiss slowly I pulled her back down to me. Wrapping her tightly in my arms. "Sleep Babe."
Once I felt Steph fall asleep, I started thinking about all the things I had told her tonight. Everything she has learned. There's so much more that I need to tell her yet.
There are so many things that are of the unknown. How everyone will react once this situation is figured out and done with. How our lives will change or if they will at all.
In the calm darkness of our room, with the woman who has become my best friend over the last couple years wrapped in my arms, I let my tears finally fall silently. The tears that I've held in for the one person that I have every fully loved. The tears that come from knowing she is in trouble that she might not make it out of to see the dawn of the next day.
"Hold on Baby Girl. We're coming for you. We'll find you" I whispered into the dark before closing my eyes to drift off to sleep. Sending up a silent prayer to whoever is listening that we won't be too late to save Cat.