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A/N: Remember guys if my grammar and/or spelling is off let me know

Chapter 10

When Steph and Ranger stepped off of the elevator later that morning, Ranger guided her to the conference room so that his team could give him an update.

"The false alarm at the account this morning was due to the owner's teenage daughter trying to sneak out of the house. The team was assembled and ready to go within a ten minute time period. When you didn't answer your phone Lester was sent to give you the message while the rest of the team headed towards the cars. However before we could leave we got word from the owner and from the team that was in the area that the house was clear. Bobby went up to inform you of the change in plan and all other accounts were normal throughout the night." Junior was the first to fill Ranger in.

Ranger had sent Lester a nasty look when his name came up but no one said anything.

"Hector still hasn't come up with anything on the answering machine tape, but the tape was pretty old. You might want to think of getting a new one Bomber; it's easier to get stuff off of a tape that hasn't been used as much." Slick told her.

"Last night Slick and I were able to get information from the bartender that he and one of the patrons have a deal. When the guy gives him the go ahead he slips a little bit of white powder into a lady's drink. He didn't know what the powder was, or who the guy was, all he did know was that he got a grand every time he did so." Manny told them. "Seems like the guy is a regular."

"We are getting the tapes from the owner of the bar and they should be sent to us by tonight." Tank started. "I talked to him last night and he told me that this wasn't the first time that this has happened. He was so appreciated of finding out which of his employees to fire that he overnighted the tapes last night. The owner said that tapes cover the entire floor and that we should have no problem discovering who talked to the bartender beforehand. It will be a problem picking out which of the guys talking to the bartender is our guy."

"All of Steph's past skips are accounted for during the time you were in New York. Since we didn't find anything Brett had the file sent off to Hector to see if anything we missed with the searches. Still no word back from him. We'll let him know that we are looking for someone that goes there regularly." Woody spoke up next.

"We sorted out the ones that have a prescription for Halcion." Bobby told Steph. "It seems that only five of your skips had a script for it. We weren't able to go through and see who had a relative or a friend that they could get it from, though. So one of these may not be our guy." Bobby slid a sheet of paper across the table to her.

On it were five typed names with doctor's names and refill numbers next to them. Steph looked down the sheet. "Well it's not her," Steph said pointing to a name on the paper. "She was picked up for public nudity. She was trying to do a strip tease for her husband for their anniversary, only she was in front of a window when she did and the old lady across the street called the cops on her."

Steph continued down the list. "And it's not her," Steph pointed to the other female name on her list. "She was walking her dog in the park and when the dog dumped she found out that she had forgotten her plastic bag in the car. This weird person in the park thought she was just leaving it and called the cops on her. You'd think they would have arrested the weirdo that called that one in, who the hell watches someone to make sure they pick up their dog's poop?" Stephanie asked the room at large.

The guys stared at her for a second trying to figure out if she was really asking them that question and had wanted an answer.

Steph just plowed on down the list not noticing the guys' silence.

"The rest on the list I can't remember who they are." Steph sighed.

"Here's a copy of the bond's files Bomber." Brett told her sliding a manila folder across the table at her. Steph quickly flipped through the folder.

"I don't remember these guys, Ranger. How far back did you go?"

"To the beginning." He told her and then to the room in general. "If that's all, I want updates every hour. Even if that is to say you don't have one. Dismissed." The guys cleared the room to go do whatever assignments they were assigned to do.

When it was only Steph and Ranger left in the room, Ranger reached down to grab her hand and pulled her up out of her chair.

"Come on Babe." Ranger told her as he led her from the room, down the hall and into the elevator that brought them up to the fifth floor. Ranger nodded to the guys who were manning the monitors and Steph gave them her finger wave, in which the guys grinned back at her. Ranger opened up the door to his office and dragged her inside, closing the door by pushing Steph up against it.

Ranger held Steph up against the door with his lips inches away form hers. "Still no word on who was at Shorty's."

Steph froze confused by his statement. It wasn't exactly what you whisper to someone that you had pinned to a door. "What?"

"Which of my men were talking about our elopement?" Ranger clarified for her.

"Oh. That." Steph nodded her head. "Maybe it wasn't one of yours?" Steph told him again shrugging her shoulders.

Ranger raised an eyebrow at her.

"Okay so that seems unlikely, but it's a possibility." Steph defended herself.

"Babe."

"Okay very unlikely." Steph conceded.

Ranger smiled at her. "Don't worry I'm working on it, I'll have a couple of guys get on it. Now where were we?" He asked spinning Steph around off of the door so that her back was towards his desk. He walked her backwards until the backs of her legs were against the desk. Ranger then crowded close to her so that she had to lean back to look at his face. As she was leaning back Ranger kissed her.

When Ranger kissed her Steph scooted back a little more on the desk so that she was sitting on it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and let him lean over her as he kissed her. Ranger leaned her back far enough that her back was on the top of his desk and she was lying across it. Steph wound her legs around his hips pulling him closer to her.

Ranger slid his arms underneath Stephanie's back so that he could hug her closer to him as he deepened the kiss.

Before they could take it any further Tank opened the door without knocking. "Hey Rangeman?" Before Tank could say more he was struck dumb at the sight of his best friend entwined with Stephanie on his desk.

Ranger let out a sigh and stood back up pulling Stephanie with him. He tucked a curl behind Steph's ear and then turned around to face Tank. "Yeah?" Ranger asked him putting as much menace as he could into his glare.

Tank smirked at his friend; "We're doing surveillance on all three of the guys tonight. You and Steph are together on the second shift at McGuire's."

Ranger gave a slight nod and Tank was gone closing the door behind him.

"Oh my God." Steph exclaimed from her seat on his desk and buried her head into her palms.

"Relax Babe."

"Tank caught us!"

"The guys probably already knew."

"WHAT?!" Steph exclaimed surprised that Ranger would share that much personal information with the guys.

Ranger winced, "The whole building is monitored they probably already knew you spent the night."

Oh. "I think I am going to hide out in here for the rest of the day."

Before Ranger could respond there was a knock on his office door.

"Enter." He called out.

Vince stuck his head in through the door, not opening it all the way. "The first shifts are in place at the suspects' houses. Hector called he said that Marseilles isn't our guy, looks like he had a meeting with his parole officer the day before. There would have been no time for him to get to New York and drug Stephanie."

"Who's on that team? Get them off of the house and back here."

"Slick and Manny took that one."

"Good. Tell them to see me when they get in."

Vince nodded back and left the office closing the door behind him.

"I'll have Slick and Manny try to find out who was at Shorty's since we know it couldn't be them since they were with us."

Steph nodded and picked up her bag, which was shoved in the corner of the office. She had dropped it when Ranger had her pinned to the door, and then the door must have pushed it back when Tank opened it.

"I'm going to go see if there are any files for me."

"Be careful."

Steph nodded back at him and walked out of the office. She didn't even make it to the elevator before she realized that she didn't have a car. Ranger had driven her here. Steph used the flat of her hand to hit her forehead. She let out a sigh and turned around to head back towards Ranger's office.

When she turned around she saw Ranger lounging in the doorway grinning at her. "Forget something Babe?" He asked and then threw a set of keys at her.

Steph grumbled in the elevator on the way down to the garage. When she stepped out in to the garage she looked down at the keys to see if they would give her some hint as to what car they went with. Nothing.

So she hit the unlock button and listened to the car unlock and then beeped it closed. She had to do it a couple times before she was sure that she was standing in front of the right car. She knew the guys were probably watching her and laughing at her antics but what the hell it worked.

A/N: Fixed a couple of mistakes that were pointed out.