Chapter 12: Ranger's Second Chance
Tank knocked on Ranger's apartment door, and Mary Alice asked, "Who is it?"
"It is Tank can I come in?"
"Sure" She answered the door, jumped on his back "Riding horsy"
Stephanie shook her head, "Down Mary Alice Tank is not a horse."
"But auntie Steph he looks like a horse, check out all those muscles."
Mary Alice started to walk in circles around him.
Stephanie went to the fridge to take out some water. "Okay ladies go into the bedroom, so I can talk to Tank"
"Come, Mary Alice, they don't want us hearing this" Angie told her younger sister. The two of them walked away.
Tank leaned against the sink with his arms crossed his chest. "They are very cute, I would not mind having a couple of kids someday. But that is another conversation, Ranger wants all of you moved into a safe house, he and Grandma Mazur will join you. Your sister is going to make it, but she is in critical condition right now, she has a lot of cuts and bruises." Tank finished his statement. He saw the look of concern on Stephanie's face.
"Okay girls pack a bag, we are going to another place for a while." Stephanie yelled to them.
Stephanie sat down at the table, took a few deep breaths. Tank came up and sat next to her and started to rub her back.
"Don't worry we will find the rest of your family Stephanie" Tank told her softly.
"Okay auntie Steph we are packed, good now let me pack some clothes myself." After a few minutes she came out and saw Ranger and Grandma Mazur.
Stephanie walked up to Grandma Mazur and gave her a great big hug.
"Are you okay?" She asked her.
"Yes, I am fine, now how are you feeling?" She asked Stephanie.
"I am okay, very tired because of these three but I am okay." She told her grandmother.
"Okay time to go" Ranger told them. They all walked out and left Rangeman. They were all piling in the SUV when a guy came in and started to fire a shot gun at the car.
Tank wasted no time got out his gun and fired three times. He killed him in three seconds.
"Are you guys, okay?" Stephanie asked the girls and grandma Mazur.
"Yes, we are fine." The girls said .
"We are staying here, because someone knows we are moving?" Ranger told everyone. They all got out of the car and went back into Rangeman.
"Boss what happened out there?" Hector said, " Who could get past the Rangeman gate?"
"I don't know Hector, but we need to find out Call Gibbs, we need his team back now." Ranger growled. Stephanie was holding Lisa who was starting to cry. She went upstairs again into the apartment with the girls and Grandma Mazur.
"What did you get us into Stephanie Plum this is all your fault." Grandma Mazur yelled at her.
"I honestly don't know Grandma Mazur" Stephanie told her shaking her head.
Grandma came up to her and gave her a hug. "I am sorry darling, I just wish this was not happing now." Mazur turned around to see the girls staring wide eyed at Mazur and Stephanie.
"All right girls do you want some breakfast?" Stephanie asked.
"Sure, how about some pancakes, with bacon and sausage." Angie asked.
"Let me see what do we have?" Stephanie looked in the fridge and found some fruit salad, and orange juice.
"We have fruit salad, with orange juice. Ella made it and she makes good food, so we should try it." Stephanie got out bowels for everyone and they had fruit salad with orange juice.
"I don't know about this?" Mary Alice looked at the strange bowel of fruit.
Grandma Mazur looked down at the strange fruit in the bowel.
"I agree with Mary Alice" she told Stephanie.
Ranger walked in and looked at everybody.
"They don't like the breakfast." Stephanie told him as she was eating her fruit salad.
Ranger got on his phone, "Ella can you please bring up some scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and sausage."
"Yes, sir." Ranger hung up his phone. Grandma Mazur, and the girls rushed up to him and give him a huge hug.
"Thanks uncle Carlos" Angie said with a huge smile on her face.
"you are welcome sweetie." Stephanie sat down in a chair and was shaking her head. A few minutes later, Ella came with everything that Ranger asked for. Along with a few cinnamon rolls for desert.
"Thanks Ella" Ranger told her.
"
No problem I should have known that these kids would not have liked my fruit salad." She walked away.
"Very good you two you hurt her feelings" Stephanie said in a serious tone.
"Mrs. Ella we are sorry" Angie and Mary Alice said at the same time sticking their heads out of the apartment door.
"
it is all right little ones" Ella said with a smile on her face as she walked away. The girls came back in. Ranger locked the door to their apartment and they all ate in silence the rest of the meal.
