Hi y'all! Thank you so much to those who still wanted to see where this goes. I'm so sorry I left you hanging way longer than expected. I promise to make up for it. Now who wants to pick the next destination?

I screamed an woke myself out of the dream I was having. And then screamed again when somebody grabbed me and held me really close to them.

"Your okay, everything fine." Ranger kept whispering to me.

All I could do was cry. The more I cried the tighter he held onto me.

"What was it?" He asked when my crying subsided enough to get inaudible answer from me.

"The attack, happens a lot. Guess I was more sensitive to it this time." I tried to pull away from him but he didn't let me go.

"Go back to sleep, Babe." Being to tired to fight I gave in to the exhaustion and silently cried myself back to sleep. I woke up some time later and tried to move but it was no use he still had a firm grip on me.

"Back to sleep!" He ordered.

"This ordering me around doesn't work for me! You can let go of me. I'm fine." I retorted.

"Not after how you woke up the last time. This is part of the protection even if it is from yourself. Do you get those dreams often?"

"All the time. Sometimes they are harder to deal with due to stressors in my life. Shrinks have told me. This was just the first time somebody outside of the family or Lou has been around for one." He loosened his grip and I pulled away to stretch out.

"So you are telling me not even boyfriends, college roommates, girls at slumber parties when you were younger?" He rolled on his side to face me.

I stared at the celling as I answered. "After it happened I wasn't allowed to go anywhere alone, always had a body guard even to school dances, field trips and the mall. Other people didn't understand so I was kind of the odd one out. College I had roommates but I had my own room. So nobody knew. And boyfriends never stayed over and I never spent the night. Wasn't something I wanted to explain to anybody. Which is why when Lou brought it up I didn't want to tell you."

He rolled on his back and let out a deep breath. "Did I overstep any bounds? With the whole being in here."

"I get why you did it. I know it used to scare the hell out of Val. There was a time where she slept on an air mattress on the floor in my room. When things would get bad. For a long time I would pretend to sleep, then sleep during the day when she was at work. That way she didn't know I was having them. SHe could go back to her own life." He pulled me up to a sitting position.

"Okay, here's the deal. For who knows how long we are in this together. No secrets, if anything gets to hard to handle you tell me. We can work it out from there. Deal?"

"Deal! Now can I go take a shower and maybe do something today that doesn't end in me drinking in the bathtub?" He slid off the bed and walked to the door.

"Take your time we have a meeting in 4 hours downtown." I groaned and muttered under my breath as I climbed out of breath.

"You really aren't a morning person are you?" I chucked the remote at the door but he closed it to fast.

"Asshole!" I yelled. All I heard was laughter in the hallway.