I own nothing everything was done by JE I am just taking her charters out for a spin.

What Now?

SPOV

I called Connie to let her know that I would be by later that afternoon to see her and Lula. Then I decided to run Rodriguez through one of the Rangeman search programs to see if I could find anything on him. I wasn't really surprise when nothing came up, but it had been worth a shot. Next I pulled up a word document to type down any idea's that I had on how to end all of this. I found this to be amazingly hard. But I did come up with a few:

Keep up daily routine to try and draw him out.

Hit the SSGV and see if they are saying anything.

Leave the state and hope that Rodriguez would not follow.

Hope that the guys have a better plan.

Okay I pretty sure that I could take three off of the list. The guys would never let me leave no matter how much I would want to. I am also pretty sure that Rodriguez would still find me no matter where I went, so that left one, two, and three. I had a feeling that we would most likely use all three.

I looked at the clock and saw that it was quarter of two, I leaned back in the chair and stretched out. I was just sitting back up when I heard a phone ringing and it was coming from the living room. I got up to see whose phone it was, just as I got to the door I heard Tank's voice.

"Sir…yes sir she heard from him again…why was she never told that he got out?"

I stopped next to the door in surprise, they were talking about me and Rodriguez? Who was the man on the phone? I heard Tank growl.

"She had every right to know he is fixated on her…yes sir I understand about the need to keep this quite, but she was there. Can we at least tell her about our involvement with all of this…Thank you sir Ranger will be happy to hear that…Yes sir will make sure she knows that it all needs to be kept quite, she has after all kept it quite this long. Thank you General for all of your help."

"What did the General have to say?"

"Well Ranger he said that we will be able to tell Bomber about us." I could hear the smile in Tanks voice, what where they talking about?

"Are we going to tell her everything?" Lester asked

"Everything about that mission, at least."

"What about last night?" that was Bobby when Ranger didn't answer Bobby pushed him, "The drugs?"

What the hell was that? Drugs? Did he give me drugs to knock me out!!! I may have to kill him.

"I don't know."

What the hell did he mean that he didn't know. That was it I was getting to the bottom of this. I stepped into the living room and propped my hands on my hips.

"Why don't you figure it out."

RPOV

I was jerked awake by a ringing phone, I could tell by Tank's face that it was General. I listen as Tank talked to him and I also watch different emotion run across his face. First I could see the relief in his eyes from getting a return call, then I saw the anger as the General told him why she was never told. Next I saw him relax as he found out that we would be able to tell her the truth.

"What did the General have to say?" I asked as he got off the phone.

"Well Ranger he said that we will be able to tell Bomber about us." He said as a small smile spread across his face.

"Are we going to tell her everything?" Lester asked

"Everything about that mission, at least."

"What about last night?" Bobby asked me, I knew what he was talking about before he even finished his sentence. "The drugs?"

I knew that I had to tell her but I didn't know how, "I don't know."

"Why don't you figure it out."

I snapped my head around to see Steph standing in the doorway of the office and she was pissed. How the hell did I not know that she was there?

"Babe, how long have you been there?"

"Since before you woke up, now what is this about drugs?" Man was she pissed, but I was happy to notice that her eyes stayed blue.

"Steph I gave you something to help you sleep." Bobby told her.

"And I am sure that it was your idea Bobby." She said sarcastically.

"No Babe, it was mine. You had barley fallen asleep last night before you started to toss and turn. Between Rodriguez and Morelli you had one hell of a day."

I notice her feature soften and she let out a calming breath. Then I was taken back when her face went blank. I heard the others take in a quick breath, what the hell she's never done that before, and I didn't like it at all. She always said I had ESP but she was just easy to read, now I could not read her at all. I had no clue what she was thinking or feeling.

After a moment the corner of her lips tipped up slightly she had come to some kind of decision. "Next time ask me first." I felt my jaw drop, who the hell was this. "Relax Ranger I am still me. I have had a lot of time to think lately and I decided that most of the time you have had what's best for me in mind. Besides I trust all of you completely."

I looked around and saw that all of the guys mouths were open like mine. We were all shocked at the new Steph, was she in some type of shock? Or was this all real? Only time would tell.

"Beautiful you are just fully of surprise today."

"I try Les, and really its now just today, while you guys were gone I did a lot of thinking and have been surprising a lot of people. It was a slow change but you guys were gone for so long that you are seeing the finish product."

"Proud of you Babe." And I really was, and I also couldn't wait to see what other surprise she had for us.

"So…are you guys going to tell me what is going on?" I could hear an edge to her voice.

"Bomber it's not that we didn't want to tell you before it's that it was all classified just like your information was."

"So the person you were talking to on the phone said that you could tell me?"

"Yeah, Bomber that was one of the Generals that we answer too. We called him to see what he could tell us about Rodriguez and to see if we could tell you more about all of this."

"Babe, what we are about to tell you…" I wasn't sure how to tell her. "well the best way I could describe it is providence."

"Providence? You lost me."

"Beautiful the group of Ranger's that save you? That was us."

"You? You guys?" she asked looking at me.

"Yeah Babe, it was are very first mission."

"Providence huh?"

"Yeah babe." I watched the blank face slide back over her face.

"Bomber, why are you doing that?"

She looked at Lester her blank face sill in place, "Doing what?" Even her voice held no emotion.

"Your putting a blank face on, is that something else that you have been working on?"

I saw surprise in her eyes, "Well yeah I have been, but I didn't think I did it very well."

"Babe, you do that as well as most of my men."

"Huh. I was just tired of everyone always knowing what I was thinking."

I smiled at her, "What do you want to do now Babe?"

"Well I called Connie and told her that I would be by this afternoon to pick up the flowers and my skips. Is that going to be a problem?"

"No Babe you can still do that as long as you take Les with you."

"I'm good with that."

"We need to come up with a plan" Tank said.

Steph snorted and I raised and eyebrow at her, "I came up with my own set of plans."

"Babe?"

She snickered at herself, "One minute."

She turned and went back into the office, a moment latter I heard the printer going. When she came back out she had four pieces of paper in her hand and passed one to each of us.

"The only one on that list I am not going with is three."

I read the list and let out a bark of laughter, "You never disappoint Babe."

"Number four is my favorite." Tank said.

"Mine too, because I am really hoping you can come up with something better then that."

"Babe why don't you and Lester head out to the bond office while the rest of us work on this."

"Sounds good to me." She turned to Lester, "I am ready when you are."

"Lets rock and roll Beautiful."

"See you guys later." With that they walked out the door.

"Do you think that she will be okay going out?"

"We can't lock her up Bobby, even with all the changes in her she will fight us on that one. I will talk to her when they get back about not going out so much. I think that she will agree."

"Ric's right, Bomber is a free sprite every time someone tries to cage her she breaks out. She will be fine as long as she is with Lester. Now lets get to work on how to end all this before it gets out of hand."

Tank was right it was time to get to work, to make sure that she could fly free.

Sorry it's taken so long to up date work has been crazy, but her is 11 and I am almost done with 12. Please review, I live off of them!