Ranger

Slowly I woke up and got control over my body. I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in my room on the island. There was medical equipment all around me bed. I still could move more than my eyes. I moved past the bed and looked around the whole room. There was Ricker sitting in the chair. He was sleeping.

"Fucker" I said once I could. He jumped up and looked around. He saw me glaring at him and walked over to the bed.

"What did you call me?"

"Fucker," He rubbed his face and looked me over.

"It would seem the name fit's sometimes. Why did you think I sent Kid there? He needed to earn his place before she showed up and took your place. She scares him half to death. There's a lot you need to know Ranger. But it can wait." He turned and walked out.

"Where the fuck are you going?"

"You'll be in pain soon. She shoot you in the chest." He walked away and left the door open. I looked down at my chest and didn't know what he was talking about.

"Good of you to wake the fuck up you ass hole. What fucking mess did you land yourself into? All the prick would say is it's classified. I ran a blood test and found some wicked drugs in your system along with that shoot to the chest. Your one lucky sun of a bitch. It missed everything that was important." James told me checking on everything.

"How long have I been here?" He thought about it.

"You showed up in a coffin two days ago. Gave us a scare till Ricker started handing out orders. There was a letter with the body, Tank will give it to you later. How do you feel?" He asked me finely.

"I don't feel much so fine." He nodded and already knew I would say that.

"The drugs are wearing off, if you stop fighting it, it will go faster. Had a wicket bit mark on your neck. Do I get to know what the fuck happened?" I glared at Ricker.

"A black widow bit me." James shook his head.

"It wasn't a widow, some jungle spider though. You were in the jungle and was shot then bit?" He asked me.

"The bit happened first then I would think after I passed out I was shot. Shoot?" He nodded and pointed to my chest.

"You were shoot in the chest, right next to your hear and above your lungs. It was angled just right to miss your spin also. You were fucking lucky." I shook my head.

"It would seem the black widow just was a shitting aim." Ricker glared and me and folded his arms.

"A spite bit you and shoot you?" I looked at James and he was looking at me like I lost my mind. I shook my head no.

"A woman who goes by the Black widow drug me then shoot me." His face cleared up.

"This wouldn't have happened from a shitting aim; this woman knew just how to shoot and just where to shoot from. You're lucky, one millimeter you would have died. Send her a thank you card." I was still glaring at Ricker.

"Oh, I'll send her a card. But it won't be a thank you card. It will be me behind a gun dragging her ass home." Ricker nodded James out of the room. He shut the door and walked over to the bed.

"Your mission is over Major and you will not be going back there and that's an order. If you do you will get her killed. If you do it will be treason. The government is allowing this to play out. She took care of enough of our little nasty and with me pulling as much wires as I could, I've got them to leave her the fuck alone. Angela chose this and as much as I could do to stop her she did it anyways. There's no going back, there's no changing anything." He told me and thought about it. "No one can know about it either. If some people found out that she is someone else, she'll be trigged."

"How could you."

"He didn't have a chose, she didn't leave anyone but Hector a chose. She's not the same person Ranger and she hasn't been since before you left." Tank said walking into the room. "Have you told him?" He asked Ricker and Ricker shook his head. Tank nodded and pulled a chair over to the bed.

"Told me what?"

"How are you doing. Our little girl made a mess out of you?"

"Find, tell me." He pulled out a letter and held it. I looked at it and saw Steph's hand writing. "Read it." He nodded and opened it. Held it out and looked it over.

"Ranger, I know you're going to be upset with me and you might be just pissed off. That's fine, if I was having been in your place I would be pissed off also. You took this mission because of your duty to your country. That's no longer an issue. You see as much as everyone who knows you knows you're an honorable man. So, I'm taking over in your place and sending you home where you belong where your duty's really lie. To your men, family and to your daughter. Maybe more for Tanks since then anyone would think. He hates his paperwork. I'm sorry to say that this is my goodbye, you batman will always be my best friend and I'm sorry to say that you won't be able to come for me in any way. First you would be killed for even being seen. Secondly because Ricker won't let you will you Ricker. And third because I'm not the wonder woman you left. This is my place and that is yours. Don't forget you are batman, you have a life to live there. You will always be my friend. Love Stephanie." Tank said and just looked at the letter.

"That sneak woman." He said and took a breath. "Remember our last desiccation before you left on the mission?" I nodded and remember that night a lot. "It seems that you and her had sex. A few weeks later she found out she was pregnant and right before she was going to come get you she found out the last of your mission and told Hector. He was going to take your place and she wouldn't let him. A week after she came here with him she miscarried and lost half her overseers. After that she turned herself into the Black Widow, she changed after that. Letting us in just enough, but never the same." I looked at him.

"I had 6 mouths and he would let her loss in 9," I said and looked at Ricker. He nodded and looked away. "She was pregnant?" I couldn't believe it, I couldn't believe she was going to have my child and I just left. I couldn't believe I wasn't here for her when she went throw everything.

"I have to get her out of there." I said and wished these drugs were out of my system.

"You never listen do you, there is no going back for you." I looked at Tank and he slowly smiled.

"It will take some time, but I've been already working up to doing just what you're thinking. She can't run away forever. But there is one more thing you need to know." I nodded and he looked at Ricker. "I overheard her talking to Hector. She gave up, she might still love you, but she doesn't think she could be with you. After she learned everything about you she came to the conclusion that you can't ever bring yourself to be with her and she doesn't want to be with you."

"What?" I didn't understand. He rubbed his face.

"She would rather have you as her best friend, than not have you at all or above anything else. She said Batman doesn't have a life that could fit a relationship in it." Ricker said. "Hector on the other hand thinks she's just protecting herself from being hurt again. But after she lost the baby, she gave up on everything." Ricker said.

"What do you mean she gave up?" I asked them. Ricker moved closer and leaned against the bed.

"She stopped caring about most everything. She hasn't been back to Trenton since she lost the child. She'll act normal when the guys are around, normal and happy. But when they weren't around, she was different. I don't think I could explain it. She was either training or traveling. It took her almost a year to be able to make that shoot Ranger. She had to make it look like she shoots you in the heart and killed you."

"She hasn't been home?"

"Hardly ever left the island. Hector and her would leave to travel. She was still using full use of your computer. Always pick the most wanted person to go after. The list keep on changing so much those men's heads were rolling. She's lucky she took your place. They were closing in on her. Right before she left to go send you home, she and Hector went to a play. There would four agents there to watch her and take her in. But she slipped throw their fingers. Slipped right past them, they got a piece and I saw it. She's beautiful, there's a light that just turns on around her." He said trying to understand.

"Do you have the picture?" I asked him and was hopping. He turned around and headed out of the room. I looked at Tank. He was watching me.

"She came to send me home, is there any more reason? Did she really want to take my place?" He started looking sad.

"She's changed, she was changing ever since you gave the report that you were dead. She knew all along that you weren't dead and that we knew what kind of mission you went on. The more she was with Hector the more she changed."

"She was sick and tired of acting. She had to act around you guy's all the time. But your right she started acting more and more like Hector. Short tempered and deadly." Ricker said as he walked back into the room. "He thought it was because she was pregnant and acting was getting to her. She was a great act also. The first day I meet her she looked like she was dead because she lost you, then when you called and she was there she was shining with light and looked deadly. The Black widow fight her." He said and moved next to the bed. He was holding a stack of pictures.

"They sent you that many?" I asked him. He shook his head.

"This is all the picture's I have and Hector left. I know he left them for you." He picked up the first one and handed it to me. "I believe this is what everyone saw when she was acting." I couldn't move my arms yet. He held it up for me to see. She looked like she was so sad and sick. I glared at Tank.

"Look at her, really look at her." He told me. I looked back at the picture. She was sitting at her desk with the phone against her ear. Tank took the picture and brought it closer. I could see her face. She was looking down at her desk and if you looked close enough you could see the passion. I finely smiled and nodded. Tank sat back down looking at the picture.

"You had to look beyond the act to see her. But none of us caught on till it was too late." I looked at Ricker waiting for the next one. He was her walking. She looked pissed off, but she looked beautiful.

"This is the night we headed down here. I asked the wrong questions and she got pissed off. Walked an hour to catch up with Hector. She sure does have a temper." I smiled and nodded to him.

"I told you she wasn't patient. But normal she's very even tempered, what did you ask her?" I asked him and saw he didn't want to answer.

"I asked her if she loved you. I kept on asking her if she loved you." He said finely. I looked back at the picture but it changed. It was the same setting. She just wasn't wearing a jacket. I saw her holster and guns. It was a turn on. He showed me another one and the shirt was off. She was walking back towards the car. I saw something that made me grabbed the picture and looked at it.

"She has a tattoo?" I asked and saw it pecking out from her tank top. She gave a little hip action in her walk.

"This I think is what you're looking for." Ricker put the picture in my hands. She was standing in front of the ocean and she was wearing a white binky. She was holding her hair back and she was beautiful. Then I looked at the tattoo. It was mind blowing.

"I'm going to kill Hector." I said looking it over. She had closed wings flowing from her shoulders, past her hips. Then there were fathers falling down her legs. In Spanish between her shoulders was someday, in the middle of her back was I'll speared, and right on her bottom was I'll fly.

"She said she got I'll fly when she broke up with her ex and got the rest when she came to the conclusions that you both couldn't be together. She gave up her someday whatever that meant when she lost the baby."

"I told her once that we could have our someday." The tattoo was great, it was beautiful and it was her. He showed me some other pictures. It was a screen shot for the last year. I needed her with me right now.

"This is the play." He handed me a picture. She was wearing a black dress sitting on a chair and Hector was standing behind her. You could clearly see her ring, she looked beautiful, she looked powerful. It was in how she sat.

"This was after the play." He handed me a picture.

She stood up and you could see her tattoo. She stood proud and I saw Hector looking right at the picture. He knew it was being taken. She had her hand on her chair and Hector was reaching for the door.

"These were taken while they were disappearing." He held up three. One was Hector specking to her. She smiled behind her. The second was her ducking under some people and the third was her standing in the shadows smiling at the agents that were passing her. Hector was looking past them at the room.

"He was playing with them." I told Ricker. He looked at the pictures. "He let them get just close enough so she could enjoy the play and they could do their jobs. But she belongs here." I told them and saw the pictures. She fit in, I closed my eyes and pictured her sitting in my room watching me. She was made to belong there. My eyes popped open and I looked at Tank.

"You can't wait very long." Tank looked my face over.

"Sorry ladies, you're going to have to put that talk on hold. We're about to get an update on how she's doing." He said and put the phone on speaker.

"Ricker where the hell did you find this chick. I know all of us are ruthless, but she's a different story all together."

"What is Kid Chaos scared of the little girl?" I asked him and smiled. I hear him suck in a breath.

"Ranger?" He asked. "Your dead, I saw where you were shot." He couldn't believe it. "She kissed you, that's her calling card. I've been sent after one of her killings. Yes, she didn't shoot you in the head like most the time. But the chest shoot and the kiss with the bit, she killed you."

"She couldn't kill me,"

"Man, she's ruthless." I shook my head.

"She has the ability to kill me. She doesn't have it in her to kill me though."

"I don't know what you're talking about she really doesn't like you. She spends a lot of time cursing you. She must have missed. But I don't know how." He said more to himself. "What did you mean she came to you?" He asked Ricker.

"It doesn't matter. Do what your ordered." Ricker said.

"She came to you? Why would she come to you? She doesn't even like that I'm with you?" He said.

"She decides it was time for me to go home." I said and everyone was quite for a long time.

"She's your widow?" Tank laughed. Full on gut laughing. Ricker looked at us. "But wouldn't she want to go home with you?"

"You're right on one think kid she is my woman. But's a suborn woman and she's mine watch yourself." I wore him.

"You might not be right about that anymore. The man, whatever you would call him, they are very close. She's moved on." He said and Ricker was laughing.

"Hector's tease is very different then with Angela." I looked at him.

"Who's hector?"

"Jose is Hector, Jose is a face name that matches Angela. He made fake ID's for them years ago, they are very close, but only as brother and sister. Angela reminds him of his sister he lost long ago. But Hector is her body guard."

"Well that explains a lot, that night after your body was whatever. The whole bedchamber hall was cleared out and he took the front room. No one has been able to go down there for any reason. Unless asked. She's very demanding, isn't she?"

"What else has been going on?" Ricker asked.

"This week she's been going over everything with the land and men. Today her luggage showed up. Dose she ever wears anything but black."

"No," Ricker said. "Never forget Kid, she is the Black Widow. She is very deadly." I gave Ricker a look. He didn't care.

"Oh, I know that, man she's as beautiful as she is deadly. She is beautiful though. The black I can understand, but why does she dress like she does?"

"What do you mean?" I asked him.

"Everything is very pricy, everything is over the top." I didn't understand what he was saying.

[You should have more common since then this.] A very upset voice said. A very pissed off Hector said.

[What are you talking about?] Kid said, but it was from a distance. There was back ground noise.

[Spying isn't smart, watching isn't smart. The chose was made and now you will leave everything alone.] Hector said.

[This won't last.] I said.

[This is her chose, it wouldn't be wise to get in her way from now on. She belongs here. She will kill you if you return, if you send anyone and if she catches this child on the phone. They will all die.]

[She's not heartless.] He laughed.

[Jose,] The sweetest voice called. [Leave the boy alone, I'm sure he'll be able to do his job without a reminder.]

[Of course, you've taken a shining to the wrong child.] She laughed and I could hear shoes. She was walking close to the phone.

[Shinning isn't the right word, he's much too good for my tease. Come, we have business.]

[You should send him home.] She was already walking away. You could hear her stop and spun. She walked back and the phone was moved again.

[He isn't under just my control. But I'm sure if he bother's you much we could send him back. But then how would you be watched.]

[What?]

[Be quite.] She ordered. [I only allow so much and this is being allowed because I know the reason behind it. I should have left you, but.]

[I wouldn't have stayed. He's watching you.] She laughed.

[That man is smart enough to stay out of my path. You on the other hand would think twice. Come we really have business.] She turned on her heal. [Don't think his warning wasn't real. Anyone who comes onto my land without innovation will be killed.] A door was slammed and it was quite for a long time.

[I don't think you're very welcome. Why would Jose pause?] Everyone looked at Ricker. We didn't understand either.

[We're partners.]

[I would think someone would have to be the go between for her and you? What's the other reasons?] I looked at Ricker and he was looking away.

[Hector's gay Kid, has been his whole life that's why we all know they aren't together. When Ricker said partner's, he meant it. They are together, he wouldn't kill him. You must go and bring her back.] I told him.

[You don't listen to her. What she says is true. I am smart enough to stay out of her path. Next week same time.]

[Next week.] Ricker hung up the phone.

[Ranger I am smart enough not to get in her path. She's right, kid's just there to be my eyes and ears. That's his only job.] He turned around and left. I sat up and looked at Tank.

"Don't worry Ranger we'll go and bring her back." Tank told me. He meant it also. I laid back and closed my eyes. My chest started hurting. She did a good job at shooting me in the chest.

"Did you tell anyone about her?" I asked him.

"This is your chose Ranger, I overheard something and found out you weren't dead. Everything is your chose. But before long I will go and bring her back. Who comes and helps me is your chose. But everyone knows you're alive. Well the team knows." I looked at him. Then nodded and knew he was telling me that others were waiting for answers.

"Later." He nodded and sat back. "Sassy isn't she."

"Yes,"

"I can't wait till she's back, we have a lot of talking to do. Talking and another baby." Someone cleared there thought and I opened my eyes.

"That's won't be easy. Her chances of having another child are very slim. When she miscarried, she missed some things up and I had to remove half her flopped tubes." Jack told me. I looked at him. Then over to Tank. He wasn't surprised by the new. I didn't fucking care anymore. I started moving and got up. "Carlos it's not." I pulled out my IV and walked around him.

It seems there were two people now that held my answers. One was out of reach. The other one was a little harder to find. Ricker was sitting on the back pouch.

"She changed after she lost the baby?" He nodded. "Explain really what happened?" He looked out at the sea.

"She liked to watch the ocean, but they were always out here right before dawn watching the sun. One morning they were out here and she just dropped and was scramming. We took her to James and he saw that she was already miscarried and found where all the blood was coming from. Hector talked her into going into surgery. She would have rather died that lost that child. She came out and Hector insisted that she come back her. James showed up a few days later and 8 days' letter she finely really woke up. They started planning, training and doing the jobs they found. Everything stopped with her when the guys were here. But she didn't hide much from me. That air of power that she has now, it's been building this whole time. Everything about her specks power."

"She never wanted to be a mother." He got up and moved next to me.

"She said something like that. You never wanted a family?" I shook my head.

"With her I wanted everything, I just wanted out from under this contract first. I wanted to give her a whole man. I told her we could have our someday and I meant it. Getting her back now though isn't going to be easy, is it?" He pulled out something from his pocket and handed it over to me.

"He doesn't like the kid," He smiled and looked away again. I opened the paper and saw it was pictures. Four on the one sheet of paper. The first was her sitting in the study drinking. She sat in the chair like a queen. The second was her looking out at everything. It was early and she was the same way. The third was her walking away. You could see her hands were behind her back under her jacket. And the last was her sitting at the desk. She was dealing with business. They all made her look like she fit in that place.

"You need to give her time. You never know Ranger, she might just come home on her won."

"She can't."

"You couldn't. You needed to live within your mission standers. She can do anything she feel like. You never know Ranger, she might get sick and tired of paying jeje." I looked over at him and shook my head.

"If she's anything, she sticks to her chooses." He just smiled at me. But he didn't know her like I did. She wouldn't leave without force.