Standard disclaimers, I don't own them and I'm not making money
This story will later turn into a comedy, but some drama must take place to get the storyline started.
Sorry for the long wait!! I moved back to college and things got hectic!
Here is the longer chapter as promised!
Chapter 7
I stretched my arms above my head, my shirt riding up. It felt like I had been in this damn Hummer for a year, but it had only been three hours.
Lester and I had been watching the skip's girlfriend's house all morning, and nothing was happening. And literally I mean nothing was happening. My spidey sense was going off but I couldn't get it to stop dancing to get a hold of what it was trying to tell me.
Normally Lester and I are pretty vocal and playful during our stakeouts, and I usually would have asked for help on my spidey sense, but today we were afraid to speak. This morning had been a huge problem, and I was very surprised that Ranger had even allowed us to be together in any way shape or form after it.
"This shower is heavenly!" I thought to myself as I climbed out and gently wiped my feet on the rug.
I had slept better than I had in a long time, actually the last time I had slept that well was the last time I had slept in Ranger's bed—go figure.
I wrapped myself up in the nice big towels and made my way into the bedroom to get out my clothes for the day. It wouldn't be that hard—all we were wearing on this trip was the Rangeman black. This pretty much sucked considering how hot it was here.
I had just stepped into my panties when I heard a light tap on the door. I quickly wrapped my towel back around me as the door opened and Lester peeked his head in.
"Bomber you almost ready...oh!" Lester said as he noticed that I wasn't dressed yet.
"It's alright Lester, I just got caught up in the shower, I'll be ready in a few minutes," I told him. It was true I wasn't really going to try hard when nobody was going to see me. I'd make myself up and do my hair later when we went out.
"Okay I'll be waiting in the living room waiting for you," Lester said as he turned and reached for the door.
Lester never made it to the door as Ranger gently opened the door and looked in, "Babe are you in here?"
Ranger stopped and his blank face slammed down at the sight of me in a towel and Lester standing there in my room.
Lester seemed to know that this wasn't going to end well, for either of us, but especially for himself.
Ranger stood up completely straight before glaring an evil glare at Lester, "Can I speak to you, outside, now," he said grounding out the last few words.
I mouthed sorry to Lester as he followed Ranger out the door.
I quickly dressed myself, and went out outside my bedroom to see if I could defend Lester in any way. I couldn't as Ranger looked at me before storming to his bedroom.
Lester just shook his head before giving me a sad smile and leading me out the door…
I fidgeted in my seat to bring myself out of the memories of this morning. It wouldn't do me any good to remember. I still didn't know exactly what had happened between those two.
I sighed to myself, "Look what I've done to Lester and Ranger's friendship or whatever they had, I've ruined it," I thought.
My phone suddenly buzzed telling me I had a text message and bringing me out of my musings.
New Text Message From: Lester Santos
I looked at Lester with my eyebrows raised, but he just gestured towards my phone.
"It is not your fault so stop thinking such thoughts!!!"
Huh? Oh, crap please tell me I hadn't been saying my thoughts out loud, this car was monitored!!
Lester shook his head; hmm…guess he just has ESP too. I quickly texted my message back to him saying that I still felt bad at how Ranger had treated him this morning.
Lester responded to me, "It's not your fault. I was the one who walked into your room and stayed in there. I could have waited till you were dressed to talk to you."
I shook my head. Lester and I were going to put the blame on ourselves no matter what each other said. I quickly texted back to him saying, "Let's just move because we are never going to stop blaming ourselves. Now, let's start acting like we usually do instead of worrying about what Ranger hears as he listens to our every breath."
Lester nodded and reached over to squeeze my hand.
"Damn is this a boring stakeout!" I exclaimed, speaking for the first time since before we left.
"Tell me about it. There isn't anything going on on this street, nothing. No kids playing outside, no dogs barking. It is just plain weird."
He had that right. It was a little strange how dead this neighborhood was.
I reached into the back seat and pulled out the cooler, "I'm hungry for lunch, how about yourself?"
"Bring it. After lunch I'll call Cal and have him give us our break."
I gave each of us a sandwich, a bottle of water, and some chips. The way we worked these surveillance jobs was that after we ate our lunch, the duo that was after us, in our case Cal and Bobby, would come relieve us for a half an hour so that we could do our business. I was thankful for that plan, I didn't think that I could make it for 8 hours without a visit to the ladies room.
"What kind of sandwich did you pack yourself Bomber?" Lester asked as he bit into his turkey.
"Peanut butter and olive, yum," I told him as I took a huge bite. Lester scrunched up his face.
"That is so nasty Bomber. I will never understand how you can eat that."
"Just like I will never understand how you can't eat it," I laughed as I poked him in the arm.
Lester laughed too, and with his laughter came relief. I was still slightly worried about this morning, but not nearly as much as when Lester and I had been sitting in silence.
When Lester stopped laughing he sat silently thinking about something for a moment. I swore I saw mischief in his face somewhere…
"You know Bomber, I could eat peanut butter and olives together if it was off…."
"AHHH!!! Stop right there!" Yep that was mischief I had saw.
We finished our lunch and Lester called Cal and Bobby so we could get our break of the day.
I propped my feet up on the dash and yawned, "I really could use a nap after that lunch. This is one of the most morning stakeouts ever. And that is saying something because they are all extremely boring."
Lester slouched a bit into his chair too, "I find it very odd that there has so far been no movement from this house in any of the time we have been watching it. It is almost like we have been watching the wrong house."
We both paused and then looked at each other before shaking our heads.
"No way does Ranger have us watching the wrong house. It isn't possible he messed up this bad." I assured both myself and Lester.
"Yeah, you are completely right Bomber what were we thinking," Lester nodded his agreement.
But we both stopped and looked at each other again.
"Umm…Lester?"
"Hmm?" He asked deep in thought as he drilled his eyes into the house.
"Where did Ranger get all the Intel for this job?"
"Monty," Lester replied giving me a look, "Don't even think it. Monty and Ranger are the same with different personalities. Monty wouldn't mess something this big up."
I knew he was right. I had only known him a short time but I couldn't see him messing up something as big as an address, even if he was a goof that got Ranger kicked out of Nevada .
"Could it be the car? I mean we are sitting in a badass black Hummer."
"Nah, this place is like Stark Street . A Hummer is Vegas' version of our SUVs back home. Everyone just assumes pimp or drug dealer."
That made sense. Nobody in this area of Vegas would consider a Hummer parked on the street anything out of the ordinary.
I reached into the back seat on a whim and pulled out the laptop. All the laptops we had in the cars could be hooked up to wireless no matter where we were.
"Lester, hand me the file please?" I asked wanting to double check a hunch I had.
He handed it over to me with a raised eyebrow. "What are you looking for?"
"Give me a second," I told him as I brought up Google.
"I have a real estate friend who owns a house over on James Ave ," I told Lester as I started to add the address to Google Earth, "The thing is, she doesn't actually live on James, she lives on an alley behind it, and so nobody can ever find her house. That may be the problem we are having here."
Lester thought for a moment, "Now that you say that I think I saw an alley back there behind that house," he gestured, "Wouldn't that be something if we were wrong?"
I began to scan the map of the area that Google presented me with. Sure enough, there was an alleyway parallel to the street we were currently sitting on.
"Lester, look at this, the street address that we are supposed to be watching is 116 ½ Bradford Ave. We are sitting in front of 116, there isn't a half. If it is like my friend back home, the 116 ½ is on that alley," I said talking fast.
Lester looked at the map on my screen. "It is definitely possible," he agreed.
Just then, Cal and Bobby pulled up behind us. Lester put the phone on speaker and called their car.
"Hey guys Bomber got something so we are going to do a conference call with Ranger and Tank."
"Sounds good," Bobby said as Lester dialed Ranger.
"Yo," Ranger said. To the outsider his hello was normal, but you could tell that there was tension in his voice as he saw Lester was calling him.
"Bomber got something that may help us here. Monty with you?" Lester started, ignoring the fact that Ranger was still angry.
"Yes, explain." I rolled my eyes. Ranger needed to learn some manners.
"Lester and I found it odd that we have had absolutely no movement here in the last few days," I began, "What I've found is that there is an alley parallel to this street that most likely has the house we are looking for on…"
Tank interrupted me, "How is this possible?"
"Well, we are looking for a 116 ½. Lester and I are currently sitting in front of a 116. I had a friend back home who had this problem where she had the address of the street parallel to hers along with a similar number for another house, but she actually lived behind that house in an alley."
"Lester and Steph go check out this house on foot, Cal and Bobby stay there in front of the other," Tank said before hanging up.
Ranger wasn't the only one who needed some phone manners.
Lester and I got out of the car and casually walked to the alley, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. Hard to in badass black, but I was hoping that everyone thought we were drug dealers…
"Damn Steph you were right," Lester nodded his head in the direction of a house on our left, "There is 116 ½."
Lester pulled out his cell and called Ranger.
"Steph was right man, we were watching the wrong…"
Lester never got finished because just as he started talking our man walked right out of that house.
He was whistling as he walked towards us, I thought for a minute this would be an easy grab, until he looked up.
He must have recognized us because the next thing I knew he was running like a bat out of hell. I didn't even think I just started running and trying to catch him.
And that I did.
I made a flying tackle that landed his ass face first into the pavement.
"Bond enforcement," I said as I slapped handcuffs on him, "I'm taking your ass back to Trenton."
"You bitch you can't do this!"
"You bet your sweet ass we can Hicks," Lester said as I climbed off him and Lester hauled him to his feet.
We took him back to the SUV and in five minutes Tank and Ranger arrived.
"Tank, Rangeman you missed it!" Lester shouted, "Steph flew into the air to tackle his ass!"
Tank smiled at me, "Great job Bomber," he said as he high fived me.
"Good job, Babe," Ranger whispered quietly as he gave me a small smile. I gave him a small smile back before pumping knuckles with Cal, Bobby, and Lester.
"Too bad my amazingness is causing us to go back to Trenton."
"I can handle this by myself if I take the jet," Cal said, "I need to get back anyways, and you guys can stay and celebrate the capture."
I liked this plan, now if only Ranger would let us stay. I highly doubted it.
"That's fine, I did promise some down time, didn't' I?" Ranger said, "I may even come out with you."
Holy crap! Ranger just gave us permission to have fun?! And wait did he just say he was going to party with us?!
This was excellent.
It is time to execute the payback of epic proportions.
And it would all start…TONIGHT!!!
XOXOXOXOXO
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