Three days later, Steph came into Ranger's office "Ranger, is there any chance I could have some money so I can buy a dress for the dinner Friday night?"
"Of course babe, go buy yourself something nice and sexy." Then Ranger gave Steph the Rangemen credit card.
"Thanks I already called Mary Lou so we could go shopping." Stephanie said to her husband.
"Take the Porsche babe" Ranger said and then gave her a lightly kiss on the lips.
"Can you take the kids for a while?" Steph asked
"Sure" he said and then he took the kids from her.
"Great I will see you in a bit" then Steph walked out of her husband's office and down to the garage to the Porsche.
Mary Lou was waiting for Steph in the driveway.
She jumped in the Porsche and said' Drive"
"What happened this time?"
"The kids are driving me crazy" Mary Lou said
"Now what kind of dress are we looking for?" Mary Lou said
"Something nice and sexy that what Ranger said anyway" Steph said
"You are so lucky to have a husband like that" Mary Lou told her "Now let's go to the mall" Mary Lou told her.
At the mall they went into a fancy dress shop. The two women started to look at the dress racks. Mary Lou held up a blue slick dress.
"I don't know about that one." Steph said. Then she spotted a nice red slick dress.
"I am going to try this one on" Then Stephanie walked into the dressing room. She came out and looked at the red dress. It was long and had a an cut from the foot of the dress to the knee. Mary Lou looked at the dress and said "wow you will knock Ranger's socks off in this one."
Steph looked at herself in the mirror, and thought that the work in the gym during the last two weeks have paid off, she was a size larger than she was before she was pregnant. "I think this one will be perfect." Steph said to Mary Lou.
She got changed and then she bought the red dress.
On the way back to drop of Mary Lou, Steph noticed one of the bonds that was walking on the street.
"Call my husband and tell him we have a bond that I spotted." Then Steph jumped out of the Porsche and took off after the bond.
Ten minutes later Ranger and Tank came up to the Porsche. "Where is Steph?" Ranger asked.
"She took off that way." Mary Lou said and pointed toward the right.
"Let's go" Ranger said, and then she spotted Steph on top of the man struggling to put the cuffs on him.
Ranger came up to Steph and pulled her off, and then Tank grabbed the guy and snapped the cuffs on him.
"Ranger, where are the kids?"
"At Rangemen with Ella." Ranger said. And then he kissed his wife.
"This is your catch babe" Ranger told her.
Tank brought him to the SUV and put him in the back. Ranger walked up to the Porsche and gave Steph another kiss and then got in the SUV and drove to the police station.
Steph dropped Mary Lou back at the house and then went back to Rangemen to be with her kids.
Ella was waiting in the apt for Steph or Ranger to get in.
Steph opened the door and looked at Ella,
"You are all dirty" Ella said to Steph
"Yeah I know I had a run in with a bond. But I did get a nice looking dress for Friday night so I am all set for that. I think I will wear my black heels with this dress." Steph said.
Ranger then came in and gave Steph three hundred and fifty dollars. "What is this?" Steph asked.
"Your bounty fee" Ranger said to her.
"Okay" Steph said and then put it in her dresser.
"Is that your dress for Friday night?" Ranger asked.
"Yes, and don't look I want it to be a surprise." Steph told him as she went into his arms.
"Are you too all set for the evening?" Ella asked.
"Yes, we are and thanks Ella." Steph said and then they watched Ella leave.
Steph went to sit down in the living room and Ranger went to join her.
The kids were in their bassinets and playing with a mobile windmill.
"Ranger, I am glad Ella was here, to watch the kids while you went to get the bond." Steph said.
"yes, but she has other duties to do to, so we have to figure some other way for me to catch bonds and for you to be out doing your thing." Ranger added.
"Yeah, but how?" Steph asked
"Don't know yet babe but something will turn up." Ranger then added and kissed her on top of the head.
"Well it time for their feeding, will you help me get a bottle ready for them?" Steph asked her husband.
"Absolutely" Ranger said and the they went to the fridge for the formula to feed the twins.
Friday evening at five thirty Ranger had just gotten out of the shower, he put on boxers and then he dress pants his white tux shirt slipped his gun hostler on put his gun in his hostler and then put his tux jacket on. After he got himself ready he got the twins ready to go to their grandmother's house.
"Babe, hurry up we have to be at your parent's by six." Ranger told Steph.
"I know that." And then she went into the nursery in her Red dress. Ranger turned around with Michelle in his arms and his mouth dropped.
"Well what do you think?" Steph asked.
"Babe" was all he could say.
"I am glad you like it" she said as she took Michelle and put her jacket on her. Then she put Martin's on him and then they went to the garage and into the SUV.
They got to Steph's parents' house right at six pm. "There they are" Helen said as she grabbed the carriers. That were holding the twins.
"Mom, now I want you to listen their formula is in here it has to be heated in the microwave for 45 seconds and then you can feed them. They eat at six thirty and then by seven pm they are asleep so you should have no problems. Spent time with them and no visitors to come to see them" Steph said to her mother.
"Okay they will be all set now you to go, and Steph do you think that dress is a little much for a new mom." Steph's mom said to her.
"Maybe this was a mistake" Steph said looking at the twins and then at Ranger.
"Babe it too late, now let's go or we are going to be late. Your mother has instructions and if she does not follow them this will be the last time that she sits for us." Ranger said looking at Helen.
"They will be fine now run along you two and have a good time." Helen told them once again.
"Alright we will be back here probably by eight thirty tops mom" Steph said and then she kissed both the kids and her and Ranger left.
They arrived at the dinner at six thirty, and Steph looked at the time. "Maybe I should give mom a call and remind her that it is time to feed the twins" Steph said to Ranger
"Babe now listen, your parents know what that are support to do and if they don't do it our way they don't sit again period." Ranger told her. "Now let's go inside the nice house and have a nice dinner, and let me enjoy my wife." Ranger said and then he started to neck her.
"Ranger, let's go" Steph said and then she opened the door and got out. Ranger then got out of the suv and put his arm around his wife waist and then they went into the house for dinner.
Meanwhile at the plum's house. Helen was feeding Martin and Frank was feeding Michelle. "I just don't understand why your sister won't breast feed these two darlings." Helen said to Valerie who came over with Mary Alice and Lisa.
"There has to be a reason Helen" Frank said to his wife and he was burping Michelle.
Then the door bell rang.
"Valerie will you get the door?" Hellen said to her daughter
"sure thing mom" and then Valerie answered the door to the Morelli's mom and grandma Bella.
Frank's eyes popped out of his head. "What are they doing here? Frank said as he was putting Michelle in her carrier.
"Relax Frank I just want to show my grandkids off a little bit."
"You heard what Steph said no visitors." Frank stated.
"Relax they will be gone before Steph realizes they were here." Helen said and then she hugged Angie Morelli.
"Wow they are cute." Grandma Bella said and then added "would have been cuter if Joe was their dad."
"Mom, now you cut that out, I am sure that Steph and this Ranger guy are very happy together." Angie said.
"They are and I wish she would have married Joe too Bella but she did not" Helen said to them. Now do you want to hold them?" Helen asked her friends.
At the dinner there was a band, and live entertainment. Ranger was talking to Mr. Parterre who was hopefully the future client and Steph was chatting with his wife.
"Excuse me Mr. Parterre but I have to dance with my wife" Then Ranger walked over to Steph and said, "excuse me ladies but can I have this dance with my wife."
"Sure thing Ranger" Steph said in return and then they started to dance. Ranger held her nice and close to him and Steph put her head on his shoulder after a couple of dances Ranger glanced at his watch. "It is already eight pm we should get going, it will take us a while to get to your parents' house." Ranger told Steph.
Ranger and Steph walked to their hosts for the evening and said, "We had a wonderful time and we hope that you will join our company. But we do have to go it is getting late and we do have kids to go home to." Ranger told them.
"Very well, it was nice meeting you, Mrs. Manoso and I hope you enjoyed yourself."
"I did, thank you very much" Steph said and then Ranger came up behind her with her coat she put it on and then Ranger put his on and then they left to go pick up the twins.
When they got to Steph's parents house they noticed two more cars there. "One is Valerie's and the other is the Morelli's" Steph told her husband. "We told my parents no visitors." Steph said to her husband. "Let's go get the twins" Ranger said as he let go of the steering wheel.
Then they entered the house. They heard Michelle screaming at the top of her lungs. Then they heard. "I still think they would have been cuter if Joe was the father." Grandma Bella said to Helen.
"I told you once Bella Steph is very happy being married to Ranger, even though I would have preferred if she married Joe compared to him." Helen said.
"Calm down Ranger, let's just get the kids and go" Steph said.
Grandma Mazer came out and said, "Stephanie you back early"
"No I am not grandma it is eight thirty" Steph said to her.
Then Steph walked into the kitchen and her mother's mouth dropped.
"Mrs. Morelli can I please have my son?" Steph asked her.
"Of course Steph" Mrs. Morelli told her and then handed Martin over to Steph
Ranger walked into the living room and heard Michelle screaming in Frank's arm.
"Frank can I please have my daughter?" Ranger asked
Yes, here you go." And then Ranger took his daughter and she calmed down at once. He walked out from the living room in to the kitchen and started to pack Michelle up.
Once they were packed up Ranger said, "The next time you want to see them you can see them at Rangemen." Then he said, "Steph is Martin all ready?"
"He is all set Ranger"
"Good then let's go." Then Ranger, Steph and the twins left the Plums.
When they got back to Rangemen Tank came up to Ranger and Steph.
"How was the dinner?" Tank asked.
"The dinner was great, my parents on the other hand have some explaining to do." Steph said and took the twins from Ranger and went up to the apt.
"That bad huh" Tank said.
"Yeah, Tank that bad" Ranger said and then he followed Steph up to the apt.
"Steph, how are they?" Ranger said as he entered the nursery.
"They are fine now" Steph said as she put them in their cribs.
"Good" Ranger said then went to the bed room to put on some sweats and an t-shirt.
"Are you going to be okay if I go to the gym for a while?" Ranger asked his wife.
"Yeah, go on and blow off some steam Ranger." Then Ranger left for the gym.
When Ranger got to the gym he saw Morelli there boxing with Hal. "Perfect" he thought to himself.
He started on the punching bag. And then he said, "She would have liked it better if Steph married Morelli instead of me huh." Ranger said and then contuine to box.
Morelli heard that and got socked in the jaw. "Really Jenkins you have got to pay attention" Hal said to him again.
Ranger just smiled to himself. Ranger did not notice that Tank had been there spotting him. All of a sudden alarms starting blaring. "Steph" Ranger said and then Ranger, Hal, Morelli, and Tank all ran up stair to Ranger's apt.
Ranger spotted the door open and went in and saw Hands with a gun pointed at Steph. Morelli and Ranger both tackled him and then Bobby came up with cuffs. Morelli stood hands up and said. "Trenton PD you are under arrest for Attempted Murder." Then Morelli took the cuffs from Bobby and put them on Hands. Then Morelli walked Hands out of Ranger's apt.
Ranger went up to Steph, "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I am fine" and then she went into his arms.
"Babe what happened."
"There was a knock on the door, and I saw Hands, so I opened the door and then next thing I knew he tried to grab me so I hit him and then I ran in here and threw the bassinet at him. Then he took out a gun and aimed it at me. The next thing is you and Morelli came in and tackled him." Steph told her husband.
Two hours later Ranger, Steph and Morelli was saying their goodbyes to each other.
"Thanks Joe I owe you one" Steph said and she kissed him on the cheek. Then she left to go back to the apt.
"She is not the only one who owes you." Ranger told him.
"Take care of her Ranger" Morelli said to him
"I promise" Ranger said and then held out his hand.
Morelli took it and gave it a good shake. Then he turned and walked to the cruiser and left.
