(Lester's Pov)

When we all got back to the truck Steph was barley strong enough to stand on her own feet. With Bobby taking over with helping her to stand I got inside the back seat of the truck, scooted all the way over to the other side , motioned for Bobby to help Steph in and stretch out in the back with her head resting in my lap. When the truck finally made it back to the RangeMan garage Tank, jumped out of the truck and motioned to some one to come over to him.

"Help take Stephanie too…." he was saying to Hal as I eased my self out of the truck

"My room" both Bobby and I said at the same time. Bobby turned and looked at me surprised that I was challenging him on this since it being a medical thing and if I wasn't so pissed off at the situation I would have just allowed him to take her.

"Les she needs to come with me so I can keep and eye on her incase something changes" Bobby tried to reason with me

"You said she was just going to sleep it off" I said

"Yes but if she happens to maybe have an allergic reaction to something then I'd be there to hopefully stop it"

"But she more than likely will sleep right?" I bit out

"Les"

"Santos" Tank barked and then rubbed his bald head with his hand

"Brown is Steph stable?" he asked

"As far as I know she is I haven't had the chance to do any vitals or anything"

"And you can do this in Santos's room?" he asked and I felt a little bit relaxed but gave a hard look over to Bobby, he was not going to take Steph away from me.

"Yes I can take all the stuff up to his room and check her over, but I'd rather…"

"I know" Tank said "just go get all the stuff and meet us in Santos room" he said and Bobby nodded his head ending the standoff we had going on between us.

Bobby was a good guy and I have never got in his way of ever treating me or any of the other guys, but since I've been with Steph I just couldn't let her go even if she was still in the building and I could get to her anytime I wanted. Tank looked over at a bewildered Hal and nodded his instruction; Hal reached into the truck and carefully pulled out the deep sleeping Stephanie. When we made it up to my apartment, Bobby was already there with a bag at his feet leaning against the wall at my door.

"Not in there setting up/" I questioned as I unlocked my door with my key

"Hey man it's your private apartment" he said gathering his bag as I opened the door and let him pass

I watched as Hal walked down my hall and placed Steph in the middle of my bed. When he stepped back he clapped me on the shoulder and told me he was happy to see us back, Tank excused him and he dutifully left my room. I stood at the foot of my bed and looked over the woman in my bed. I had for so long wanted her here but never in this capacity. How could she do this? Why didn't she come to me if she was feeling so overwhelmed, didn't our time together mean anything and show her I was always there to support her and be there for her? As I looked at her again and saw how limp she was it reminded me that I could have lost her as well as Ranger. If she had taken more of the pills or like Bobby said happened to be allergic, they could have killed her. Rage was building as I continued to look over her and watch as Bobby would listen with a stethoscope on her chest.

"Be back" I said leaving before I lost it

I walked into my living room and began to pace in circles thinking about loosing Stephanie. It was hard on me to have lost my cousin, but he was a soldier and I was a solider and we were programmed to deal with this kind of loss in different ways then regular people, it did still hurt like hell, but it was dealt with. If Stephanie happened to die, I don't know what I'd do and for it to happen over something she could have came to me for is unthinkable. Bobby has assured us that she would just sleep it off and have one hell of a hangover when she comes around, Doctors loose patients everyday no matter how good they are.

"DAMMITT" I growled punching the wall

"SANTOS MY OFFICE NOW" Tank said rushing into the room

"No I gotta watch over Steph" I said shaking my hand at the pain

"NOW AND ITS AN ORDER" he said and I stood up a little straighter the soldier in me getting a clue

Locked in a stare down with Tank, I finally relented and walked out my door with Tank following after me. When we got to his office the door was slammed behind me and I was told to take a seat. Falling back into on of the two seats that were in front of his desk, I let my legs stretch out as I stared at the floor.

"What the hell was that down there?" Tank asked tossing his keys and phone onto the desk

"Nothing"

"Don't shit with me Santos it was something and I think I know what it is"

"You do, do you than why am I in here?"

"Boy I'm telling you cut the shit now or I'll have you down on the mats so fast your head will spin and that's bad considering you just got back from vacation and was supposed to come back better" He said sitting back in his big chair

"Why did she do it?" I said letting go of the anger a little

"I don't know"

"She only took one of them pills the first night we were at the cabin and she was so bad off I told her too, than she turned to me and I talked to her or held her during the rough times. Why did she not turn to me now and tell me I'm nervous about going home?"

"You'll have to ask her when she wakes up"

"Yea" I said letting out a long breath

"Is there something going on with you and Steph?" Tank asked me and I lifted my head up to see he was staring at me

"I just care about her and Ric wanted me to watch over and out for her" I told him since Steph was so nervous about the guys knowing and then how nervous she was about coming home, I didn't know how much I should say about our relationship.

"Santos I know its more than that. I know you like her a little more than you did before and I have seen the hand holding, the laying on your shoulder, the soft whispers in the ear, and now how pissed you are"

"I can't loose her" I blurted out

"Because you love her"

"Yea"

"She feel the same way about you?" he asked

"Yea but it is all so new right now. We have only told each other about our feelings towards each other and got together for a few days now, I wished we'd had more time to be firmer in our relationship before coming back here , but this was what she wanted"

"This is what Ranger had planned" Tank said and I was gob smacked at his words

"What?" I asked him

"This was Ranger's plan all along. He chose you specifically because he knew that you have loved her forever like he has. He knew you would be right there for her and would do anything she needed. This was what he wanted"

As he went on explaining why he thought this, I was reminded of the time when Steph and I had came back to the cabin from the hayride and told each other of our feelings. When Steph ran off into the house I looked up into the night sky and yelled at Ranger if this is what he wanted was for me to fall in love with her. Looks like maybe it was.

"He trusted you to take care of the one thing he loved because he knew you loved it too and also it would be like he was still loving her since you guys were family. He wouldn't be so far away because she could access him through you"

I thought on that a moment and then stood up heading toward his door "Santos" Tank called out

"Welcome back" he said as I turned around

"Thanks" I said opening the door and walking out