"Steph, will you teach me to wear my shoes and walk?" Julia got black hells with a 2 inch heal.

"Yes," She smiled and I stopped Ranger to get a smooth. He got one for everyone, even himself. He held me to him and walked out with us. Everything went in the back and he helped all of us in.

"Is everyone going to want dinner?" He asked us when he pulled into the driveway.

"I'm hungry still." Peter told him.

"Me to." Julia said. We both looked back and I centered on Sara. She was asleep with the stair in her mouth. I smiled. We got out and Ranger slowly took the cup away and picked her up. I walked to the end of the driveway and waved the SUV over. It took a few minutes then it pulled to a stop in front of the house.

"I need your arms." They just gave me a look, I rolled my eyes and walked to the SVU and opened the back hatch. Before I could pick up a bag, two different arms reached out and grabbed all the bags. Peter was watching everything, I took his hand and walked inside with him.

"They can be helpful sometimes," He smiled at me.

"Where do you want them?"

"There's fine, thanks." They nodded and started walking out.

"Stop," Ranger said when they opened the door. They did at once, turned back around and looked at him. I looked from him to them. "Babe this is Dobbs and Green." Ranger finely said when they weren't catching on to what he wanted.

"It's nice to meet you. Thank you for the help." They nodded and left.

"Babe?" Ranger asked.

"Don't give me that look, I wanted the help and they were there to give it to me. Peter thought it was funny. Would you rather me carry them in?" He didn't answer me, just picked up the bags and walked away.

"Dose that happen a lot, you wave your arm and people show up?" Peter asked me.

"No but you should get used to being watched when Ranger thinks you're in danger. He doesn't thing we might be in danger, he just doesn't want people to show up without knowing about."

"Watching me?" He was worried.

"You won't see them. But if something happens and Ranger fills you're in danger, he'll have someone watch over you. It took me a few years to be able to pick the guys out." I told him and put a bag of chips on the bar.

"Would I be in danger?" He was worried again.

"There might be times, that things will happen and for some reason you might be in danger yes. But things in your life might make him do it also. Say someone's picking on you or you get into troubled. Things happen and life goes on." I told him.

"Dad's just protective, take it as a sign as he loves you." Julia said and took a chip.

"He just met me." Peter's eyes were big.

"He might not show it a lot but he has a very big heart." I brushed his hair back and just smiled at him. Ranger came in and I know he heard everything. He kissed me and opened the fridge.

"What would everyone like?" He asked us.

"Cook something and we'll eat it." I told him and took another chip. He grabbed some things and picked up the bag of chips as he passed us. "Hey?" I said and reached for it. He just raised it higher.

"Do you want me to cook or do you want to snack?" he asked me, looking down at me.

"Both?" He leaned down and kissed me. Then put the chips back and started cooking. I turned and leaned against the bar. Peter and Julia were just smiling at the scene.

"Fill me in on what happened today?" He told me.

"You're going to lose your office. That's where I think most of the problem is coming from. He still thinks you're the boss there. But I'll go back to the begging. After you left I called Tank to call in Dom and Danger. I asked them how they could allow everything could get that far behind. He got upset, that's when you came in. When you left we as I mean me got over it. I said some more and know I was getting nowhere and kicked Danger out. So, I asked a few questions and got to the bottom of the problem. It's you, so I'm kicking you out of the office and Dom is being put in there. Danger is going to move into his office and the core team is going to get on board and that's that."

"Want to go into the office tomorrow and make sure that gets done?" I looked back at him and he was smiling. "I'll make sure Danger comes picks you up in the morning and we'll go do something together." He kissed me and went back to cooking.

"Is that what you were talking about being the boss?" Peter asked me.

"Yes, but that was also me reading her. Steph really dose show everything on her face, trust me she will really want to go. She likes being the boss as much as I am." Ranger told him.

"I don't like being the boss, I just like everything to work right and do their job. I do my job, you do your job. Why can't everyone just do their job?" I said.

"If you want you can go with her tomorrow." Ranger said. I looked at him, and then looked over to Peter. He really looked like he wanted to come with me.

"You can come with me. Together I think we could get everyone to do what they should do. We'll leave Ranger and the girls to do their own thing." He was really smiling now.

"Sara," Ranger said softly to me. I looked back at him and saw he was nodding to the wall. I walked out and slowly walked into Sara's room. She was crying into her pillow. I walked over to her and rubbed her back.

"Sweetie, why are you upset."

"My daddy isn't ever coming back, I know he won't just walk throw the door one day. But I'm going to miss him."

"I'm really sorry this had to happen honey. I know they won't ever come home, but I do know they are looking down on you even right now. They love you and only want what's best for you." I wiped her eyes and held her.

"How do you know?"

"Because I know that's where my grandfather is and I know he's always watching me. I still miss him also." She pulled back and looked up at me.

"Dose it still hurt?"

"Something's when I think about him. But not all the time. With time, it will lesson, you'll never forget them and you'll never stop loving them. Julia still has her papa, but don't think you won't have him also. For the rest of your life you'll always have him in your life also. Your daddy made sure you would always have someone there." Her eyes were tearing up again.

"You won't?" She was sad about that.

"Yes, I will, I'll always be there. You don't have to worry about me not being there. You see Ranger and I are partners, where I go, he follows and where he goes I follow." She smiled at me.

"But you weren't with him, when he came down here." She said.

"It's a new-found partnership. Neither of us have been willing to let the other one know how we really fell about the other. For years, we've been tangoing around our love for each other." She giggled at that.

"What made you tell him?" She asked.

"He told me first. I never would have told him. Julia bet him that I loved him. I guess that made him start to think. He told me a few nights before we came here." I smiled at her.

"Won't we get in the way?"

"Not at all sweetie. Trust me you'll never get in the way." She was really smiling at me and her eyes were bright.

"I'm hungry, is there anything to eat."

"Yes, Ranger is cooking dinner. But even if he wasn't, you could always look around for something to eat yourself. We will never care, there are a lot of things you'll need to learn about us. For the most part we're laid back." She took my hand when I stood up.

"Do you have room for all of us?" I heard Julia ask when we walked into the kitchen.

"Not at the penthouse. Steph took it over. But everyone will have enough space in my house."

"I do not take it over." I said and put my hands on my hips. He just smiled at me and moved the last of the food to the table.

"Babe I need an extra closet just for my things." He said and walked me to the table and sat me down.

"You have a house, you never told me that. How big is it, are you sure we'll all fit in it?" Ranger sat down. Everyone was looking at him. We all wanted to know.

"Trust me, baby it will fit everyone." Was all he would tell us.

"Steph?"

"Don't ask me, your dad hasn't ever token me or even told me about his bat cave. I just found about it when we were coming here and I asked him the same thing." They all just looked at me.

"You have a bat cave?" Peter's face was priceless.

"Not like that, Ranger is my own personal batman."

"I wouldn't be so sure babe," Ranger face was all out smiling. His eyes were shinning and he was really going to say that and not tell me anything else. I glared at him.

"How much room dose this house have?" Julia asked me.

"You'll have to wait and see it with everyone else." He dished up his plate and held it for Sara.

"Can I have my own room?" Sara asked.

"You may, you might not like the room for as it is and we'll help you change it to how you like it. Everyone but you, you can't change the room." He said and looked over at me.

"Why can't I, what if I don't like the sheets?"

"You'll like the sheets. And all of you will just have to wait till we get home to see the house." I put my head in my hands and gave him a sad face.
"Not even the guys have seen the house. They know about it, but I haven't let anyone into it." He said to me.

"Why not?" I wanted to know. He just looked over at me and I could read it all over his face. He builds it for me. I leaned forward and kissed him.

We eat and moved into the living room to watch some TV. Everyone cuddled up and watched the TV together. It was nice and it just felt right. Before the movie was over, I was asleep.

The next morning I was up at six and went for a run with Ranger. We'll he ran and I walked. On my way, back to the house, Ranger meet up with me and took my hand.

"You built a house for me?" I asked him.

"I built a house for the both of us. There's even a new house for Rex, if you can pull him away from his new home." I just smiled.

"You built a house for Rex?"

"No I bought a house for Rex, but if he would like to stay at Rangerman with the guys I'm sure we could take the kids to find something to put in the house."

"He really doses like hanging out with the guys. He doesn't like kids and dose bit. Maybe we could get something to fill that house." He kissed my head.

"I'm sure we could. How are you, with everything's that's been going on, I haven't had a chance to ask?" He told me.

"I'm fine, don't worry so much. I'm just five mouths along and I'm small still. The only thing that really has changed is I'm always hungry and I have to pee all the time. What I'm really bummed about is my bobs haven't got any bigger." He stopped me and turned me in front of him. Slowly he planned my breast and kissed me with more passion then he has in mouths.

"Babe," He said and looked down at me.

"What?" He looked down and I followed. I saw what he was showing me. "When did that happen?"

"Ellea has been taken good care of you." He turned us and we started walking again. "Babe?" I looked up at him and knew he could tell something was wrong.

"I just think something's missing." He kissed my head.

"Nothing's missing, I'll just have to prove it to you." We walked inside and saw everyone was at the table eating.

"We're we gone that long?" I asked Ranger.

"No I woke up a few minutes after you left. They just woke up." Julia told me. They all nodded, Sara wasn't looking at us. I sat down next to her. I brushed her hair out of her face.

"We're you worried, that we left and weren't going to come back?" I asked her. She nodded. She wasn't going to be alright with us disappearing for a long time. "I'm sorry, this is one thing we're going to have to work on." She turned and hugged me.

"Julia told me you were going for a run, but when you didn't come back I started to worry." She said.

"Don't worry, we're not going anywhere. You stuck with us." She hugged me tightly. Ranger sat a cup down for me.

"What's that?" Sara said.

"It's tea, would you like to try it?" She took a drink and gave it back to me.

"It doesn't tease as good as it smells." She said at once. I took the cup and washed down the pill. She was making a face. Ranger sat down a cup of juice for her. She took a drink at once.

"Don't worry not many people like it." Ranger said to her. I kissed her head, took the cup and headed to the bathroom. I showered and got ready for the day. I didn't have a uniform, so I just wore jeans and a tee shirt. When I walked back into the kitchen Danger was sitting at the bar drinking a cup of coffee with Ranger.

"Are you going to eat before you go?" Ranger asked me.

"Yes," I grabbed a jar of pickles and butter. I popped some toast in the toaster and filled up my cup. When it was done, I spear butter on my toast and cut up pickles and laid them all over. I cut it in half and took a bit. I looked up and saw Danger was staring right at me.

"What?" I asked.

"Your, she's, why doesn't anyone know?" Danger asked looking right to Ranger. I just looked from one to the other.

"A few people know and that's the way we want it right now." Ranger said and gave him a look.

"How did you get that from toast?" I asked. He smiled at me.

"Every time I see you you're bathing pickles in something. My wife did the same thing with bananas. I should have noticed it the first day." He said.

"You have a wife?" I leaned against the bar.

"Why is that so surprising?" He asked me.

"Because I'm around the guys all the time and I get nothing out of them. I've known you a few days and you just told me you were married." He just smiled bigger.

"Not many guys can do it. Juggle the job and a family. They might not say anything because they don't want you to know they can do it." I nodded and understood at once what he was telling me. It sucked and it hurt that they wouldn't share that with me, look at all the crap they listened to me about Ranger. "I'm going to guess that's a side effect." He said to Ranger. Ranger put his arms around me and kissed me.

"How do you do it?" I asked him.

"Carmen keeps him on a short leash. Carmen is also a cousin of mine. Her temper is even worst then yours." Ranger kissed me again.

"Are you related to everyone?" I asked him.

"I worked with Ranger for a while before I even meet Carmen. We didn't get along to say the less. One night we bumped into each other at a cube." He said.

"And?" I asked and leaned against the bar looking at him and waited.

"They had a one night stand and he left the next morning while she was in the shower. She came to me a week later and was pissed off. Like I told you, I don't take woman yelling at me very well. So, when I found out what it was really about, I cuffed her to her chair, grabbed Danger and did the same. I left them alone." Ranger told me.

"But couldn't you get away?" I asked him.

"Ranger has cuffs are special made. Only his master key works on them." Danger said and wasn't all that happy about it. I turned around and looked up at him.

"Is that true?" I asked him.

"Yes, but the ones I would give you are just normal. Not that I wouldn't mind unlocking you from the shower again." He leaned down and kissed me. Danger was laughing.

"What's so funny?" Peter asked everyone.

"Danger was just telling me how he meets his wife, are you ready?" Peter nodded and took my hand.

"It was funny?" Peter asked me.

"It was, when you get older I'll teach you what he's mama should have taught him. I grabbed my purse and we walked outside. There behind the SUV was a sliver BMW. The doors unlocked and I opened the back door for Peter. He was all smiles and got in. I saw a booster sit in the middle.

"Yes, it's my wife's car, I had to take Sofia to school today." He said when he got in.

"You have kids?" Peter asked.

"Yes, I have three. Sofia is 6 and Eva and Victor are almost one." Peter just nodded. I looked in the back.

"If it's her car, why only one sit?" I asked him.

"Try putting three seats in a car. If you would look in my SUV you would have seen all three seats." I nodded and smiled back at Peter. He was being quiet.

"Why did you wait six years between them?" I asked him. He didn't answer right away. I looked over and saw his smile was gone.

"Just because Ranger locked us in a room didn't mean we worked anything out. After we got out, it was like she disappeared. I didn't see her for a while later." He told me.

"A while like more than 9 mouths?" I asked him. He nodded and I could tell he was done with talking about it. "I'm sorry, but that's what happened when you guys don't talk." I folded my arms and looked out the window.

"I'm getting the felling you're not talking about me anymore. When did you tell Ranger?" He asked me.

"He told me a few days ago," Was all I said. He didn't ask anything more. No one said anything more till me pulled into the parking lot. I opened the back door when Peter couldn't get out.

"You locked me in?" Peter said to Danger.

"Sorry child locks, Sofia thinks it's funny to open the door and run off." Peter took my hand and we headed up the stairs. The staff was just walking out from the staff meeting. Danger walked us into the conference room. I sat down on the other end of the table and Peter sat down to me.